I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

After Jiang Weiguo arrived, Zhang Fakui expressed his welcome and felt a little depressed at the same time. The welcome was because Jiang Weiguo was Chiang Kai-shek's own son, the "imperial envoy" and "front-line supervisor", and the depression was because of Jiang Weiguo's "blind command".

Before the Battle of Songhu, Jiang Weiguo firmly advocated retaining heavy troops in Hangzhou Bay. He "swears that the Japanese army will land in Hangzhou Bay in the middle and late stages of the battle. Therefore, Hangzhou Bay is the general flank of the Shanghai National Army and must not be lost." Therefore, Zhang Fakui led two group armies and 15 troops in the Hangzhou Bay area, waiting for the Japanese army to land here and give them a head-on blow. For this reason, Zhang Fakui worked hard and painstakingly. Bian only kept a small number of troops to confuse and paralyze the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army could mistakenly think that the national army ignored Hangzhou Bay and the defense in Hangzhou Bay was empty. The troops quickly marched to the seaside and severely damaged the Japanese army.

It is hard to imagine how difficult it is to hide 10,000+ troops. Zhang Fakui has been racking his brains on this matter during this time. In order to allow the main force to move out quickly, he also organized migrant workers to build several temporary roads.

In the end, what Jiang Weiguo said was completely wrong. The Japanese army did not land in Hangzhou Bay at all, but instead landed in Hudong, which made Zhang Fakui busy.

Jiang Weiguo was deeply embarrassed. His "forecasting skills like a god" began to fail precisely because of his interference in history.

"Zhang Junzuo, since the Japanese army landed in Hudong, we must adapt to local conditions and change our plan!" After the polite words, Jiang Weiguo went straight to the point.

Zhang Fakui nodded: "In the past few days, according to the chairman's instruction, our department deliberately did not intercept the Japanese 101st Division, so that the 101st Division advanced smoothly. At present, its vanguard has arrived in Pujiang Town. It can be said that the division The regiment has gone deep into Shanghai!"

Jiang Weiguo could hear that in order to implement Chiang Kai-shek's "lure the enemy to go deep" combat concept, Zhang Fakui deliberately released water, making the 101st Division of the Japanese Army march forward triumphantly and invincible. Look, the 101st Division has advanced a full [-] kilometers deep into the inland of Shanghai, and the speed of progress is several times that of the Japanese army at Wusongkou and Chuanshakou.

"Pujiang Town is an important bridgehead for the 101st Division to cross the Huangpu River!" Lieutenant General Liu Jianxu, commander of the 10th Group Army who was also present, said, "If Pujiang Town is lost, our army can only rely on the Huangpu River to prevent the Japanese from entering the urban area of ​​Shanghai." .

Under such circumstances, should Pujiang Town stick to it?It's very difficult!If we stick to it and beat too hard, the devils will be hurt, and the devils may transfer another division, and the two divisions are in Hudong, then our plan of "closing the door and beating dogs" will become "leading wolves into the house"; If we don’t guard, the commander of the 101st Division will drive straight into the city, and we will make the big mistake of ‘opening the door and stealing’ and fall into a passive state!” The right-wing army has the 8th and 10th armies under its command, and the commander of the 8th army is concurrently held by Zhang Fakui. The commander of the 10th Army Group is Liu Jianxu.

Jiang Weiguo thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the case. In many cases, whether a plan is successful or not is a tightrope walk, and one must be precise.

"Once the 101st Division really breaks into the city, things will be difficult.

Street fighting is beneficial to the defenders. When the Japanese army fights with us in the urban area, it will be extremely difficult.

In addition..." Zhang Fakui added, "we can calculate a number. If the national army wants to encircle and wipe out a division of the Japanese army, it is extremely difficult to do so without dispatching 101 troops. The 101st division is alone but not fighting alone. We made dumplings for it, and the other divisions of the Japanese army will definitely do their best to rescue them. We copied the back route of the 101st Division by the sea. If the Japanese army lands in Hudong with one or two divisions, it will threaten our siege of the [-]st Division. At the rear of the troops, we have to use at least one or two group armies to block them, and our military strength is seriously insufficient.

The chairman's idea, to be honest, I took it for granted..."

The more Jiang Weiguo listened, the more he felt heavy. Shanghai is not small, but it is not big. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops from both sides gather here, and it is impossible to use it at all.

To make a popular analogy: two groups of people fight on the street, it is very easy for several groups of one of them to beat up one person of the other; In the case of individuals ganging up on one person on the other side, the reasons are self-evident.

Jiang Weiguo began to regret that he had not dissuaded Chiang Kai-shek in time.

At this time, the national army was fighting "much better" than in the original history, which naturally led to Chiang Kai-shek and other high-level officials unknowingly committing the mistake of "underestimating the Japanese army and emphasizing themselves".

"For the current plan..." Although Zhang Fakui did not support Chiang Kai-shek's plan, he still carried out the tactical concept seriously, "First of all, we must build street warfare fortifications in Minhang District (the area where Pujiang Town is located and the urban area where Pujiang Town is located across the Huangpu River) , in order to prevent the Japanese army from actually fleeing into the urban area; secondly, we must build our military strongholds on the two wings of the place where the 101st Division passes, to prevent the enemy from turning around; Landing; Fourth, we must prepare for our army to launch the final roundabout encirclement operation.

Mobility and firepower come first, and if you want to cut off the Japanese army's retreat suddenly and quickly, the troops must be equipped with a large number of vehicles!"

"That's exactly what I'm going to do!" Jiang Weiguo nodded, "Leave the first three items to Zhang Junzuo and Liu Junzuo, and leave the fourth item to me to complete!"

Zhang Fakui looked at Jiang Weiguo and exhorted: "Shanghai is an impact plain, suitable for the rapid advancement of mechanized troops, so the more cars the better!"

Jiang Weiguo laughed and said, "Leave it on me!"

When leaving Zhang Fakui's headquarters, Jiang Weiguo had complicated thoughts: Damn, this is completely different from the original history!In the end, will it play twice as well as the original history, or will it be self-defeating?Forget it, don't think so much, just do your best.

In the next few days, Jiang Weiguo has been busy fulfilling the post of "General Leader of the Logistics Transportation Team" just assigned to him by Zhang Fakui, collecting vehicles from the rear and sending them to the front line. Hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were taken to the front line in Shanghai by Jiang Weiguo.

At the same time, the elite units of the 9th and 19th National Army, which had fought fiercely with the Japanese at Wusongkou and Chuanshakou in northern Shanghai, began to withdraw quietly, and they withdrew in a "stealthy way", that is, with the follow-up national army The troops were filled into the designations of the two armies, and the real troops of the two armies were replaced one after another, and then secretly assembled towards the south and southeast of Shanghai, with the purpose of participating in the battle to encircle and wipe out the 101st Division.

In the past month, the Battle of Shanghai has basically been a pure offensive and defensive battle. Although it was fierce, it was a bit monotonous. The Chinese command intends to achieve major results and major breakthroughs.

Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, commander of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army, is a very typical senior general of the Japanese Empire. He is arrogant, resolute, ruthless, and very arrogant. In fact, his troops are very arrogant troops, because his troops It is the 101st Division.

The 101st Division was formed with the reserve soldiers of the 1st Division. In other words, the 101st Division is the "clone of the 1st Division". It is enough to show its "noble lineage". The division was established in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and has been stationed in Tokyo for a long time. The extremely superior sense of superiority has always been "looking up to the sky" for other Japanese troops, even the Guards Division and the 1nd and 1th Divisions of the "Imperial Double Wall", which is known as the strongest Japanese army. In the eyes of the regiment, it was just "a group of juniors, two groups of barbaric and rude countrymen" (the 2st Division was established in 6, and the Guards Division was established in 1, so the 1st Division was the first real Japanese army division).

The 101st Division naturally inherited the superiority of the 1st Division and the arrogance and arrogance generated by that superiority.

"The defense line of the Chinese Army in Shanghai is like a hollow iron ball. The 11rd, No.13, Ninth, and No.[-] divisions are like four hammers, repeatedly hitting the iron ball. It is full of potholes, but still can't break the iron ball!" Lieutenant General Ito said to reporters when he set off at Tokyo Railway Station, "My [-]st Division will be a steel cone! It can be broken in one fell swoop!"

Facts have proved that Lieutenant General Ito did not brag. The 101st Division did make rapid progress after landing in Hudong. "Long drive straight, invincible", every day became the headline protagonist of major newspapers in Japan, and suddenly became a star force that attracted national attention.

"There is actually no need for the four divisions of Commander Matsui to continue to forcibly advance in Shanghai and North!" On September 9, Lieutenant General Ito said in an interview with reporters on the front line of Shanghai and East, "They only need to Just wait for our division to launch a full-line pursuit of the completely collapsed Chinese army after smashing the overall defense line of the Chinese army. I believe they will achieve much more fruitful results in the pursuit battle than in the tough battle at this time.

I think that General Fujita and the others should be able to start building a large prisoner-of-war camp on Chongming Island, otherwise they will catch too many Chinese prisoners and have nowhere to put them, which will hinder their troops in the pursuit battle!"

The reporter asked: "General Ito, your troops are about to cross the Huangpu River. How many backup troops do you think you need to break through the entire defense line of the Chinese Army in one go?"

"Backup troops?" Lieutenant General Ito waved his hand, "I don't need it, let the backup troops go to Shanghai and North! By then, the imperial army will not be short of manpower when they capture prisoners!"

After this remark was transmitted back to Japan by Japanese reporters, it immediately played an "inspiring" role.

The "Asahi Shimbun" described it this way: "...Because of the cunning, despicable, stubborn, and unscrupulous resistance of the Chinese Army, the Imperial Army fell into a slight decline in the Shanghai battlefield. Chang looked serious and depressed all day long, but with the arrival of General Ito and his Tokyo athletes from the [-]st Division, the clouds were blown away like a hurricane, and the exhaustion of the Shanghai war was swept away. In the air, all the departments of the imperial army who participated in the war were deeply infected, and the morale of the army was also excited.

Facing the slow and dreary situation where the imperial army was unable to break through, General Yito lashed out at Fang Qiu, strategized, and talked and laughed happily to overcome the stubborn enemy. People admire and admire it.

... "

"Ito-kun is so unreasonable!" After reading the newspaper, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Yoshisuke, head of the 9th Division, was very annoyed, "How could you say such irresponsible words to reporters!"

"If we hadn't held back a large number of elite Chinese soldiers in Shanghai and North, he would have been so popular in Hudong?" Lieutenant General Dizhou Libing, the head of the 13th Division, said indignantly, "It makes us feel ashamed, but he is big Show off!"

"Good! Good!" Inside the Nanjing Commander-in-Chief, Chiang Kai-shek looked at the translated "Asahi Shimbun", overjoyed, "This Masaki Ito is arrogant and arrogant, and has already committed the crime of arrogance and defeat." A big taboo for military strategists! Quickly pass on my order, quickly assemble troops to Shanghai, South, Shanghai, Southeast, and eat up this Ito Division!"

Chapter 190 Hudong Fighting Soldier (2)

More than a month after the Battle of Songhu broke out, it finally ushered in the prelude to the climactic chapter.

On the afternoon of September [-], as the South China typhoon moved northward to southern Zhejiang, strong winds and dark clouds covered the sky in the Shanghai area, followed by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain.

Seeing such bad weather, Zhang Fakui was both happy and worried. He was happy that the bad weather was very conducive to the Chinese army's subsequent local counterattack, and worried that the heavy rain would cause the ground to be muddy, which would naturally make the country's low mobility even worse.

Located in the former enemy headquarters of the Right Wing Army in Guangming Town, amidst the sound of thunder and guns, Zhang Fakui pointed to the map and explained the next battle to more than a dozen senior generals and a lieutenant colonel officer with a low rank but a high status. In the outline, the lieutenant colonel is naturally Jiang Weiguo, and the leader of the senior generals is Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Left Wing Army.

Chen Cheng ran from the front line of the left wing to the right wing, firstly because he was deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek, and he was also an "imperial envoy" who came to supervise on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, and secondly because the main force of the next combat force was drawn from his left-wing army He will definitely come to take command of the 9th and 19th Army Groups.

"Everyone, let me give you a brief overview of the current overall situation of the war in Shanghai!" Zhang Fakui looked serious, "The 3rd, 11th, 9th, and 13th Divisions of the Japanese invaders in Shanghai and North have completely occupied Wusongkou and Chuanshakou. We continue to attack our deep defense lines such as Baoshan, Yuepu, Luodian, and Shizilin. Our side takes Dachang Town and Nanxiang Town as the core, and Huanzaobang as the second land defense line in northern Shanghai. Resisting the Japanese army's pounce, the battle situation fell into a see-saw. Although our side no longer took the initiative, it succeeded in inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese army. The front line can basically survive for a long time. It is conservatively estimated that the Japanese army's defense line is not large. In the case of increasing troops, it can persist for more than a month; in Shanghai, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army has been rushing to the hinterland of central Shanghai since it landed at Huijiao Port on September 9, and has captured Nicheng, Datuan, and Wanxiang. , Xinchang, Hangtou and other places have advanced more than 18 kilometers in depth, and are now storming Pujiang Town!"

"What about the troops defending Pujiang Town?" Chen Cheng asked.

Zhang Fakui said: "Defending Pujiang Town is the Tao Guang Department of the 10th Army of the 28th Army. The 16th and 62nd Divisions under this army have been fighting fiercely with the Japanese for two days and two nights, with a total of more than [-] casualties. The pressure is very great!"

Chen Cheng nodded: "They can give up Pujiang Town tonight!"

Zhang Fakui continued: "The troops preparing to raid the rear of the 101st Division have been assembled in Tinglin, Yexie, Zhuangxing, Xidu and other places in southern and southeastern Shanghai.

In order not to alarm the enemy, the troops' assembly areas were relatively scattered, and they were all relatively far from Hudong, with an average of more than [-] kilometers.

Our army has prepared a large number of vehicles, but the heavy rain has caused the roads to be muddy and muddy, which may greatly affect our army's operations!"

"You can prepare a lot of straw and planks!" Xiao Yao, who was beside Jiang Weiguo, said, "The first echelon dispatched some cars to load straw and planks, and all officers and soldiers participating in the battle each carried a bundle of straw or planks, and paved the road while marching!"

Zhang Fakui snorted, then nodded again and again: "Good idea!"

"Everyone!" Chen Cheng glanced at everyone with piercing eyes, "The national army and the Japanese invaders have been fighting bloody battles in Shanghai for more than a month. Although they have gained a lot, they have not made any major breakthroughs. The gathering and annihilation of the 101st Division is of great significance and must be successful! Therefore, the National Army can be said to have all the best soldiers and warriors. The raid on the rear of the 101st Division is the key to the success of the plan. The 2th Division, the 128st Division, the 813nd Division, the 36rd Division, the 87th Division and the 88th Artillery Regiment, the above units are under the command of General Huang Wei, the former commander-in-chief of Hudong!"

Except for Jiang Weiguo, everyone at the scene showed a tacit expression.

Huang Wei is one of the backbones of Chen Cheng's "Civil Engineering Department". Chen Cheng entrusted such a good job to his confidants, and his intentions were obvious.

After the success of this battle, the Department of Civil Engineering will definitely gain the limelight in front of Chiang Kai-shek, and Chen Cheng's status will also rise. After all, this battle should be presided over by Zhang Fakui. After all, the battle took place within the combat jurisdiction of his right-wing army. He is now the "No. [-] celebrity" in front of Chiang Kai-shek, so Zhang Fakui is naturally hard to say anything.

"Huang Wei is ashamed to resign from the public committee for his heavy responsibility, but when the country is in crisis, it is right to do it!" Huang Wei greeted the heads of the teachers and heads at the scene very politely, "Since I am in danger, I hope you will be of the same heart and mind with me. Virtue, live up to the high expectations of the people of the whole country, overcome the stubborn enemy, and smash the Japanese army!"

All the teachers and heads expressed their obedience again and again. After all, they don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face, let alone the Buddha at the scene.

Chen Cheng seemed to have replaced Zhang Fakui as the host of the meeting and the commander-in-chief of the battle. He issued orders in an orderly manner: "After the attacking troops captured Huijiao Port, Nicheng, Ping'an, Datuan, and Academy, the second echelon immediately transferred to A full-scale counterattack, in cooperation with the attacking force, compressed the space for the activities of the Japanese 101st Division. First, the 10th Army held the defense line of the Huangpu River and never allowed the Japanese army to enter the city. Second..."

Zhang Fakui asked Chen Chengfa: "After the attacking troops captured the coastal strongholds, should they stick to the coastal areas? Or retreat into the inland? If they stick to it, the Japanese naval guns will cause heavy casualties to our troops exposed to the bare sea; if they retreat, the Japanese army will Rescue troops can easily land in Hudong again. At that time, the 101st Division in the encirclement will rush out to break through, and the Japanese troops outside the encirclement will also attack with all their strength. Isn't our army in the east of the encirclement encircled by the enemy? The possibility of being torn apart by the Japanese army It's too big!"

"The navy and air force will attack the Japanese fleet with all their strength!" Chen Cheng replied.

Zhang Fakui said disapprovingly: "As far as I know, although the navy and air force have a certain ability to harass and attack, they don't have the ability to attack the Japanese fleet head-on.

Therefore, it is almost inevitable that one or two more divisions of the Japanese army will land in Hudong!"

"It's all about human effort!" Chen Cheng said with a little displeasure, "For an offensive war, the national army needs four or five times the strength of the Japanese army to gain the upper hand, but for a defensive war, it only needs two or three times the strength of the Japanese army to stabilize the situation.

At that time, the troops in the eastern part of the encirclement only need to fight defensive battles. As long as they display the spirit of the party and country soldiers who are not afraid of death, tiredness and hardship, they will be able to block the Japanese rescue troops and prevent the besieged Japanese troops from breaking out and escaping! "

Zhang Fakui showed a disapproving expression again, but did not continue to refute.

Chen Cheng then orderly issued combat missions and combat requirements to each unit in turn. The entire plan was basically drafted by Huang Wei, because Huang Wei had already been designated as the "Chief Commander of the Front Hudong Enemy" as early as two days ago.

Objectively speaking, Huang Wei is a person who is very serious and even serious in his work. He still has his own way in the military. In just two days, he made such an offensive plan that cannot but be said to be a large-scale counterattack plan. Well-organized, although a bit restrained and rigid, it is indeed a well-regulated orthodox method of using troops. No one raised any objections at the scene, so it can be seen that no one found fault.

When Jiang Weiguo heard that Huang Wei actually wrote down the tasks, positions, and orders of each brigade, each regiment, and each battalion in the plan, he was astounded and wanted to laugh. He felt that Huang Wei's meticulous attitude was actually more suitable. Being a watchmaker instead of being a general, thinking about it, Jiang Weiguo wanted to laugh even more, because in history, after being captured in the civil war, Huang Wei went to use his natural expertise to develop a perpetual motion machine.

After the meeting was over, all the generals went back in full swing to reorganize their troops and prepare for battle.

When going out, Xiao Yao whispered in Jiang Weiguo's ear, "Huang Wei's burden is really heavy!"

"Huh?" Jiang Weiguo was a little surprised, "Why did you say that?"

Xiao Yao said: "On the surface, he is the commander-in-chief of Hudong's former enemy, but in fact he is a senior messenger and coordinator. Didn't you notice? Although the troops participating in the first phase of the assault were all direct descendants of the Central Army, they were of all kinds. Belonging to different units, they were put together impromptu, which is simply a pot of hodgepodge!"

Jiang Weiguo thought about it, really, he felt that it was very similar to one thing: first-class centers, first-class power forwards, first-class small forwards, first-class point guards, and first-class shooting guards belonging to different teams were improvised into one team. team, but it's certainly not a first-class team.

"This is a helpless thing!" Xiao Yao saw Jiang Weiguo's thoughts, "In this battle, the national army must use elite troops to fight, and they are elite troops, but all elite troops suffered heavy losses. Take the 36th Division as an example. The division originally had a strength of more than 5000 troops, and suffered nearly 3000 casualties on the Pingjin battlefield, and nearly [-] casualties on the Shanghai battlefield. Now there are still five or six thousand soldiers ready to fight, and the same goes for other troops.

Right now, the military situation is on fire and the time is on fire. There is no way to make up for rest or merge and reorganize, and we can only make do with it.

It is hard to imagine how difficult it is for Huang Wei to command such a hodgepodge army!"

Jiang Weiguo thought for a while, and it was true.

"What should I do?" He asked Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao looked at the stormy sky: "I can only bite the bullet!"

At 101:[-] p.m. on September [-], the Chinese army officially launched a combat plan aimed at annihilating the [-]st Division of the Japanese Army. The first phase of the plan was code-named "Drawing from the Bottom", and the purpose of the plan was exactly the same as the plan code.

The two armored battalions of the 128th Regiment were the first to exchange fire with the Japanese.

Huang Wei is indeed "selfless" in his work. Knowing that the 128th regiment is the "pro-guard army" of the second son of Jiang, he still impartially put the regiment with the best equipment, the strongest firepower, and the highest degree of mechanization in the middle of such a pile. The front line of the elite army lineage.

The armored battalion collided with the 101th Battalion of the 101st Cavalry Regiment of the Japanese 4st Division in Ping'an Town, ten kilometers northwest of Huijiao Port. It completely covered the sound of the tank tracks of the armored battalion of the national army, and the night also completely covered the troops of the national army, but the national army could clearly see the location of the Japanese army like a bat, because several teams of special forces and scouts had already touched safety. The town area.

The tanks and horses attacked, and the armored soldiers and cavalry fought. Without too much effort, the armored battalion easily defeated the Japanese cavalry brigade.

"Don't love to fight!" Zheng Dongguo, who was riding in a No. [-] tank, picked up the radio, "Hurry up! Seize Huijiao Port! Damn it!" He suddenly yelled, because his tank was stuck in a puddle of mud .

The cars following the tanks were full of infantry, and several of the cars were covered with straw and boards. After seeing the tanks lying down, the infantry jumped out of the cars one after another, and threw straw and boards in front of the tanks. Several cars and tanks Use the steel cables prepared in advance to drag the tank out of the muddy puddles.