I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Sun Liren said: "There are now more than 800 officers and soldiers in the regiment. The quality of the soldiers is not bad. Nearly 128% are veterans who have been on the battlefield. After all, when we recruit soldiers, we have always insisted on preferring shortages to excess. Priority is given to recruiting those who were injured on the front line in Shanghai to recuperate and recover. In terms of weapons, there is no problem with light weapons and sufficient ammunition, but heavy weapons are not enough. After all, we suffered too much losses on the front line of Pingjin, and we set aside a large part to support the [-]th regiment, which makes our current number of tanks There are less than [-] vehicles, and they are basically No. [-] and No. [-], and there are not even a few No. [-] vehicles. It is impossible to start field or mobile warfare with the Japanese army, and the artillery strength can only be said to be so-so!"

Jiang Weiguo nodded: "The 6th Division of the Japanese Army is a Type A division. It has never participated in the war. The whole division is fully staffed, with a total of 5000 soldiers. The equipment is the most sophisticated among all the Japanese troops. The Japanese army has always been known for its brutality and toughness, and we are under a lot of pressure!" He said "we" instead of "you", because Jiang Weiguo himself was also a member of the 918 regiment.

"So we need more soldiers!" Sun Liren said, "According to the intelligence sent back by scouts and reconnaissance planes, the main attack direction of the Japanese 6th Division is here in Jiangpu County, and at the same time, the Japanese 2nd Division is in Longtan Town. Ready to cross the river.

The places where Nanking will be attacked are the north and the west, and I think that some troops can be dispatched from the east and south!"

Jiang Weiguo hummed: "Leave it to me!"

"We need the artillery group of Zijin Mountain!" Sun Liren exhorted, "As long as the artillery group exerts its power, it is no less than adding a division to us. The Yangtze River Fleet of the Navy is also our advantage and must be fully utilized. !"

"Okay!" Jiang Weiguo nodded again and again, "It's all on me!" At this time, he is acting as a senior coordinator for the coordinated operations of various troops and arms.

After leaving Jiangpu County in a hurry, Jiang Weiguo found Ma Chongliu, the general director of the Nanjing Urban Defense Project and the head of the 1st Independent Engineer Corps of the National Army.

Ma Chongliu gave Jiang Weiguo a very satisfactory reply: "Second son, don't worry! The Nanjing city defense project was originally expected to be fully completed in early November, but all the soldiers and civilians participating in the project are very motivated, and now it is basically complete. Once completed, continuing construction is just icing on the cake!"

Jiang Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief.

After rushing to Zijin Mountain non-stop, Jiang Weiguo found Wang Yecheng, who was in charge of the heavy artillery group.

Wang Yecheng was originally the company commander of the Artillery Battalion of the 918th Regiment. Because he performed well in the Battle of Pingjin and the Battle of Pingjin, and he was a technical officer who graduated from the regular artillery department, he was now a Major of Artillery, in charge of the Purple Mountain Heavy Artillery Group construction, construction, command.

Faced with Jiang Weiguo's inquiry, Wang Yecheng spread his hands: "At present, 13 artillery pieces have been installed!"

"What?" Jiang Weiguo was taken aback, "That's all? Are you kidding me!"

王业成无奈地道：“我没有开玩笑!”他掰着手指算给蒋纬国听，“原计划安装在紫金山以及附近多个山坡上的火炮一共52门，但是，从苏联买来的8门152榴弹炮、从德国买来的20门150榴弹炮以及江阴要塞的4门德制150毫米加农炮和4门苏制122毫米加农炮都被运到上海前线去了，还有另外本来要运过来的8门榴弹炮被补充进了第10、第14重炮团!”

Jiang Weiguo was speechless. This is not unexpected. Shanghai is in full swing. Naturally, the more cannons the better, the more than 50 cannons originally planned to be installed on the slopes of Nanjing such as Zijin Mountain will definitely be "misappropriated". After all, the defense of Nanjing has not yet broken out. It must be a waste to put these more than 50 cannons on the hillside of Nanjing. They must be transported to Shanghai for emergency treatment. In Nanjing, "return the property to its original owner and return the cannon to its original position", but the defense of Nanjing came too suddenly. Before the Battle of Songhu was over, the Battle of Nanjing broke out, and the cannon naturally had no time to be transported back.

"So, what are the models of these 13 cannons?" Jiang Weiguo asked helplessly.

王业成回答道：“德国的2门330毫米舰炮、2门150毫米榴弹炮，苏联的4门b-4型203毫米榴弹炮，以及5门在上海缴获到、被运到南京修好的日制火炮，其中3门是三八式120毫米榴弹炮，还有1门是九六式150毫米榴弹炮，1门是四年式150毫米榴弹炮!”

Jiang Weiguo became more and more helpless: "Forget it, it's better than nothing. I hope your artillery group can show their power. Whether you can hold Nanjing depends largely on the artillery!"

Wang Yecheng smiled confidently: "Let's wait and see!"

The defense of Nanjing broke out in a very hasty and hasty situation, which caught the high-level officials of both sides by surprise.

Chapter 221 Defending Nanjing (1)

The Battle of Pingjin consists of the Battle of Pingjin and the Battle of Pingjin, the Battle of Songhu consists of the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Songhu, and the Battle of Nanjing also consists of two major parts, namely the Battle of Nanjing (Battle of Nanjing) and the Battle of Nanjing.

The defense of Nanjing actually broke out so high that the high-level leaders of both sides were caught off guard. Jiang Weiguo was the most surprised, because the original defense of Nanjing in history broke out on December 12, while the defense of Nanjing at this time took place on October 1. The day broke out, a full month and a half earlier, but it was inevitable.

From a macro point of view, the Battle of Nanjing is essentially a battle derived from the Battle of Songhu. It can be said to be a part of the Battle of Songhu, or a part or prelude of the Battle of Nanjing. Battles are linked.

According to the latest combat plan drawn up by the Japanese "Shanghai Dispatch Army" headquarters, the 2nd, 6th, and 16th divisions of the Japanese army suddenly landed in Jiangbei, drove straight into Nanjing, and threatened Nanjing, thereby forcing the Nationalist Government to withdraw its troops from Shanghai and return to Nanjing to help, and then broke the Japanese army. The unfavorable situation in Shanghai finally created a fighter for the Japanese army to capture Shanghai and annihilate the main force of the national army in the pursuit of the front and rear attack. He advanced aggressively and made his own claims, and changed the "feigned attack on Nanjing" to "attack Nanjing by force" without authorization, trying to take advantage of the situation and take Nanjing. However, Lieutenant General Tani Hisao was stubborn, and his move was strongly supported by Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago, the head of the 6th Division. The result of making a fake show.

The 6th Division, which continued to advance westward along the Yangtze River and all the way to Jiangpu County, launched a powerful attack like a torrent and tsunami on Jiangpu County at 2:800 am. ) Qingshan Town launched a river crossing operation, intending to seize Longtan Town, an important place in the northeast of Nanjing after setting foot on the south bank.

Amidst the earth-shattering bullets and artillery fire, Jiangpu County fell into a thunderstorm in an instant.

The core of Jiangpu County is the Pukou commercial port area (Jiangpu Town/Pu Town) along the river and Dongmen Town three kilometers to the north of the area. In the front trenches of Dongmen Town, Jiang Weiguo raised his binoculars and looked at the horizon like locusts in the distance. The 6th Division of the Japanese Army came rushing in like a pack of wolves, his heart was shaking and his heart was boiling: "Okay, okay, the famous Sixth Division, one of the main perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre in history, and Gu Shoufu... I never expected that Lao Tzu's army would fight against you guys with human skins and beasts so soon!" He thought of something at this moment, and turned to look at the red bayberry beside him.

"Did I say that? They are here!" Jiang Weiguo smiled.

Yang Mei froze for a moment, then remembered that Jiang Weiguo had said "this is the last winter in Nanjing" during the Cold Food Festival last year.

"Come on! Japanese!" Jiang Weiguo was not afraid, and officers such as Du Yuming and Sun Liren were also not afraid. The officers and soldiers of the 918 regiment on the ground were even more ready to go, glaring at the enemy.

惊涛骇浪般不断逼向东门镇的第6师团步兵方队以数十辆坦克、装甲车开路，后方的炮兵联队已经列成炮群阵势，第6师团第6野战炮兵联队联队长藤村谦大佐与身边的第16师团第16野战炮兵联队联队长三国直福大佐互相对视一眼，两个炮兵联队的100多门大炮一起昂头挺首（日军一个野战炮兵联队约2400人，下辖3个炮兵大队，装备36门120毫米榴弹炮或24门150毫米榴弹炮，有时候会增加105毫米榴弹炮进行加强或辅助。

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"Sudai!" Colonel Fujimura and Colonel Sanguo pulled out their bright sabers together, raised them high and then slashed them down fiercely. The two howled like wolves, "The lingering sound is gone", and they were quickly drowned in the artillery salvo. In the loud bang of thunder.

On the battlefield of the Japanese artillery group, flames soared into the sky and white light pierced the sun. At the same time, sand and stones were flying, and dust was sweeping. Hundreds of cannons launched bombardment at the same time. The sound was earth-shattering. The billow rolled, the ground trembled like a drum at the same time, ashes fluttered, broken earth rose, black cloud-like gunpowder smoke and black mist-like dust enveloped the artillery positions together, lightning flashed and thundered in the smoke, fire meteors flew in mid-air, waves of hammers With the momentum of wind and thunder, the heavy shells smashed into Dongmen Town, where the blue sky and white sun flag was flying, like a meteorite rain amidst the breathtaking sound of piercing the air and the split trails of bullet marks.

After the rain of shells fell head-on, the originally static and solid ground and the buildings on the surface turned into boiling, liquid magma. After the explosion, the shock wave formed a tornado-like sonic wave, and the houses were turned into ruins and rubble. The stones were shattered at the places directly hit by the shells, and the walls and houses collapsed at the places swept by the shock waves. The bricks and tiles on the road were blown into smashed slag. , the farmland in the suburbs turned into scorched earth with no grass growing, trees were broken down or uprooted, the flames were raging, thick smoke billowed, and a large amount of dust and sand formed a sandstorm that covered the sky and the sun. In just 10 minutes, Dongmen Town It was blown into a monstrous sea of ​​flames.

At the same time, in the sky covered with spiderweb-like bullet trails and reflected by the flames on the ground like burning clouds, 12 of the latest Japanese Mitsubishi Type 28 land attack aircraft were escorted by [-] Kawasaki Type [-] fighter jets. The murderous spirit came, and cooperated with the Japanese artillery group to bombard Dongmen Town indiscriminately.

Lieutenant General Tani Hisao looked at his own aircraft fleet in the sky with satisfaction. In the case of the Chinese Air Force fighter jets "rampantly moving and rampant in the sky", the Japanese ground troops can get reinforcements from their own aircraft. In a sense, it is highly valued. prove.

Lieutenant General Tani Hisao knew that his attack on Nanjing was naked disobedience, but disobedience is a major "characteristic" of the Japanese army. Even so, Lieutenant General Tani Hisao still felt a little uneasy in his heart, but this morning, his last The doubts are gone, because the people who support him are not only his colleague Lieutenant General Nakajima, but also his immediate boss, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 3rd Army. You must know that only General Matsui, Lieutenant General Yanagawa, and Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro can be transferred, but Lieutenant General Tani Hisao has no right to transfer.

Lieutenant General Okamura, who strongly opposes Lieutenant General Tani Hisao's self-assertion but has no right to stop Lieutenant Hisao Tani, sent a "small report" to Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa last night, requesting Lieutenant General Yanagawa to issue a "not allowed" to Lieutenant Hisao Tani. Unexpectedly, Lieutenant General Liu Chuan responded to the order to "attack Nanjing by storm": Since the conditions permit, why not take Nanjing at this time?Gentlemen, please go ahead and do it.

Seeing Lieutenant General Yanagawa's call back, Lieutenant General Okamura was dumbfounded, and Lieutenant General Tani Hisao was elated.

Lieutenant General Yanagawa originally belonged to the "Imperial Way School" soldier, with radical and fanatical thinking. He supported General Matsui's idea of ​​"fighting Shanghai and attacking Nanjing" with both hands and feet, and was even more active.

Because of this, Lieutenant General Okamura sued Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, but Lieutenant General Yanagawa stood on Lieutenant General Hisao Tani's side, acquiescing and supporting Lieutenant General Hisao Tani's attack on Nanjing.

Lieutenant General Tani Hisao, who was backed by his immediate superior, was immediately full of confidence and no scruples.

When the Japanese artillery group bombarded Dongmen Town violently, Jiang Weiguo was still in Dongmen Town. It stands to reason that a person with such a "noble status and valuable life" should not stay in such an extremely dangerous place. Most of Gate Town has been leveled, but in reality, he is very safe because he is 30 meters below the ground.

Jiang Weiguo invested huge sums of money and a lot of manpower and material resources in the construction of Nanjing's city defense project five months ago. Dongmen Town and Jiangpu Town are not only Nanjing's Jiangbei fortress and bridgehead, but they are naturally included in the overall project and used as construction projects. Key point (Jiang Weiguo remembers that in history, in the later period of the Nanjing Defense War, a large part of the national army who broke through the siege escaped from Nanjing through Xiaguan Wharf and Pukou Wharf. Pukou District is related to the lifeline of Nanjing’s water transportation, so it is naturally the key point. , the Japanese army can encircle Nanjing City on land, but if they want to block the Yangtze River and encircle Nanjing City on water, they must take Pukou District), five months of construction, so that these two small towns now have very Perfect fortifications, several large trenches coiled around the town like giant dragons, behind the trench defense line are trenches like spider webs, traffic trenches extending in all directions, hundreds of foxholes, bunkers, bunkers, ring fortifications, and more underground. It is a basement, tunnel, tunnel, and tunnel that are comparable to a beehive and ant nest.

At this time, Jiang Weiguo was in a solid basement in the middle of the town. When the basement was built, it was used as a headquarters for the National Army troops responsible for defending Dongmen Town. During the construction process, the rolling groundwater was pumped into the Yangtze River. The walls, ground, and roof of the building are all built with solid stone brick walls and smeared with thick cement. Drainage pipes, vents, circuits and other facilities are all available, so that there is no water, electricity and ventilation inside, and the safety level is very high. Ordinary shells and bombs are difficult to destroy here, unless the Japanese have the ground-penetrating armor-piercing bomb developed by the British five years later, so Jiang Weiguo will stay in Dongmen Town and listen to the dense and continuous transmission from the soil layer. The explosion of Japanese artillery shells and bombs.

Under Jiang Weiguo's painstaking management, Nanjing is by no means an easy bone to gnaw.

Regarding Jiang Weiguo's Nanjing city defense project, the Japanese intelligence agencies must have been collecting information in every possible way. Jiang Weiguo is not a fool. Of course, he cannot let the Japanese obtain information easily, although this is something that cannot be kept secret at all (renovating a The city’s major projects cannot be kept secret), but the engineering troops in charge of the construction and the Maritime Bureau in charge of counter-espionage have successfully concealed many details of the city defense project. It is not allowed to enter, and workers in important areas are even recruited from other provinces. For example, the Maritime Statistics Bureau recruits workers like this: send people to a certain city in other provinces, such as Anqing, Anhui Province, because a certain big boss wants to build a factory For the reason, recruit a number of skilled workers, investigate and confirm that everyone is a local with a wife and family, and then go directly to work in Nanjing by train or boat, and take two photos of each person, one for " "Working Area Pass", a registration form for the roster, you can only enter the working area after matching the correct photo every day, you can eat and live in the working area, you are not allowed to go out, supervise each other, and report each other. Workers from other provinces pay more than three times their wages, enjoy good wine and food every day, have fish and meat, and add to the principle of contributing to the country, so that the workers have no complaints.

Just imagine, under such strict and effective confidentiality measures of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, how could the Japanese sneak in?Although it cannot be said to be seamless, it is certainly impossible for the Japanese to know everything about the Nanjing City Defense Project.

Therefore, because the scale of the Nanjing city defense project is too large, the Japanese must be aware of the general scale of the project, but they do not know many details. Even so, the "conscious people" among the top Japanese army have preliminarily anticipated the Japanese army's attack on Nanjing For example, Wanji Ishihara and the newly appointed Lieutenant General Hayao Tada of the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters, they strongly opposed to defeating Shanghai and Nanjing. The first reason was to prevent the "expansion of the Sino-Japanese war." They knew that Nanjing was "very difficult to play".

"Sending troops to Shanghai is the legitimate self-defense of the imperial army, which is justified in both circumstances and reason, but attacking Nanjing will completely throw the overall situation between Japan and China out of control. Isn't the imperial army attacking the capital of China forcing China to fight the empire to the end? Besides, Nanjing Is it an ordinary city? It’s basically a big fortress comparable to Lushun during the Russo-Japanese War! The imperial army’s attack on Nanjing had only two endings. They were forced to give up after suffering heavy losses, and achieved uneconomical “success” after even more severe losses. The general who attacked Nanjing is destined to become Nogi Nozomi No. [-]!" That's what Tada Admiral said.

(During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army attacked Lushun, which was entrenched by the Russian army. The Japanese army used a total of 20 troops, resulting in more than 11 casualties, and more than 5 people were killed in battle alone.

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"If Nanjing is not captured, how can China be completely surrendered?" General Matsui Iwane argued hard.

Ishihara Wanji said in desperation: "Nanjing really must not be fought, it is the bottom line of China, even if it is really to be fought, Shanghai must be used as a bait to wipe out the main force of the Chinese army between Shanghai, Shanghai and Nanjing.

Before this goal is accomplished, Nanjing must not be attacked!"

Lieutenant General Jun Tada, a senior general in the rear headquarters, is quite clear about the information on the Nanjing City Defense Project. Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, a frontline general, is not. Regarding the intelligence information on the "Nanjing City Defense Project", Lieutenant General Tani Hisao made a very serious mistake: he seriously underestimated the perfection of Nanjing's fortifications.

When Jiang Weiguo threw the third cigarette butt on the ground, the thunder shock wave from the soil layer began to slowly become thinner and weaker. Suddenly, the basement was sitting and resting, studying the map, or using the phone to contact various people. The officers of the army put on solemn expressions one after another.

"Plane bombing, artillery bombardment, and infantry rushing!" Du Yuming laughed, "The Japanese army only use these three tactics!"

"It's mainly bombardment and infantry rushing!" Sun Liren corrected, "Because of the excellent performance of our air force's fighter force, the Japanese aircraft are not too bold and have little effect. The officers and soldiers of our army on the plane accounted for only about 5% of the total casualties!"

Jiang Weiguo was very relieved to hear that because of his own changes in history, Chinese soldiers would no longer fight hard while being bombarded by Japanese planes on the battlefield, at least for now (the Chinese Air Force planes are difficult to replenish, and they cannot produce , Outsourcing is inconvenient, so the army can fight a protracted war of attrition with the Japanese army, but it is difficult for the air force to fight a protracted war of attrition).

Sun Liren continued: "The real threat to us is the Japanese artillery. The casualties of our officers and soldiers from the Japanese artillery are as high as 47% of the total casualties, which is more than nine times that of the aircraft.

The size and strength of the Japanese artillery force is about [-] times that of ours, and the combat quality of the Japanese artillery also greatly exceeds that of our army.

Listen, the Japanese artillery fire has started to stop, but the Japanese infantry did not just start charging at this time. Their infantry was charging at the same time as the artillery fired. It is because their artillery has a capable and excellent quality that the Japanese artillery can fly a few kilometers away. The artillery shells were fired hundreds of meters in front of the Japanese infantry, so as to cover the infantry to the greatest extent and kill the enemy without accidentally injuring the infantry.

When the Japanese artillery does not fire at all, it means that the Japanese infantry has rushed to our position!"

"Everyone! The Japanese army is coming up! It's 200 meters away from the first trench!" Liao Yaoxiang hurried into the basement.

"Really!" Everyone looked at Sun Liren in admiration while rushing out of the basement. Sun Liren's ability to find and analyze problems is indeed outstanding.

After drilling to the ground from the spacious and complete tunnel like a tunnel, Jiang Weiguo resisted the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and a little blood mixed in it, and walked to the second trench with his head held high. , because the trench is two and a half meters deep, if you still bend over in a trench of this depth, you will seem too afraid of death and too unmannered.

Because the trench was very deep, and there were caves for hiding soldiers on the side walls or tunnels leading to the basement, the shelling and bombing of the Japanese army did not cause too many casualties to the 918 regiment.

"The Japanese army is coming! Come out and fight!" "Don't hide! Come out! Come out!"

The platoon commanders and company commanders hissed and shouted at the entrance of the Zangbing Cave and the entrance of the tunnel.

The soldiers came out of their hiding places in an orderly and continuous stream, and then rushed to their respective combat posts with their respective duties. The ammunitionists and transport soldiers hurriedly carried out the ammunition, and the medical soldiers began to save people or collect dead people. The remains of the officers and soldiers bombed by the Japanese army bombed. At this time, shells were still falling on the position. A few were large shells from the rear artillery group of the Japanese army, and most of them were fired by mortarmen and grenade shooters in the Japanese infantry attacking formation. The small and medium artillery shells were fired accurately and ruthlessly. Jiang Weiguo saw with his own eyes that many shells fell directly into the trenches of the national army, and the machine gun fire points on the trenches were blasted into the sky one by one by the Japanese army.

"Fortunately, most of them are fake!" Du Yuming laughed in Jiang Weiguo's ear, "Otherwise, my heart will really hurt!"

The firepower points on the trenches are furnished in a "true and false, false and real" display method. Each firepower point is built with real materials, but at least seven out of ten are fake. The fake machine guns made of wood can not only intimidate the Japanese army, but also lure the Japanese army. The Japanese mortarers and grenade shooters must pull out one after another after seeing them at close range. The loss of the national army is very small. At the same time, the Japanese army The gunners and shooters in the country have become the targets of the national army snipers who are waiting for work.

"At three o'clock, about 280 meters, there is a Japanese Type 20 grenade launcher!" [-] meters away from Jiang Weiguo's side, a reserve sniper and sniper observer pointed at the nearby sniper in a low voice. Reporting, with his eyes fixed on the target he had just discovered, the sniper immediately searched and aimed based on the enemy information provided by his companions.

Jiang Weiguo hurriedly raised his binoculars. He saw a Japanese grenade shooter setting up his grenadier behind a field ridge nearly 300 meters away to the northeast. Within three seconds, his forehead suddenly bloomed. A group of "colorful flowers" composed of white brains and red blood, the whole person suddenly fell down, brains flowed horizontally and blood spattered.

"Good job!" Jiang Weiguo praised secretly. He wanted to praise the sniper team just now, but found that the two had moved, and the sniper had to shoot to change places.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" A team of engineers hurriedly passed by Jiang Weiguo, and the engineer squad leader at the head shouted anxiously, "This is the area in charge of our squad! Hurry up and dig a hole! Check whether the pipeline is damaged! Damaged Replace the pipe immediately! Quick!"

Jiang Weiguo couldn't help laughing when he saw the sweating engineers and the things they were carrying.

Fierce battle broke out.

The 918th Regiment did not lose to the Japanese army at all in terms of light weapons, and even surpassed the Japanese army. The gunners on the position manipulated mortars and grenade launchers to fire back at the Japanese army. The two armies danced wildly above the heads of the two armies, exploding thunderbolts, and the shells that fell into the crowd of the two armies exploded into blood mist and rain of flesh, and the stumps and broken arms flew around like a whirlwind.

The charging Japanese soldiers of the 6th Division did not even blink their eyelids. While dodging with experienced and skilled evasive movements, they rushed towards the first trench of the 918th Regiment at maximum speed. Dozens of tanks galloped in front of the Japanese infantry crowd. Standing, covering the infantry and providing fire reinforcement to the infantry, tank guns and tank machine guns spit out snake-like poisonous fire together.