I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Needless to say, Jiang Weiguo had already started the defense system and defensive siege of Nanjing half a year ago. He invested a lot of financial, manpower, and material resources, and he also had enough time to complete the construction for half a year. Time, and construction can continue after the war (after all, there are still [-] young and middle-aged civilians in Nanjing, most of whom are men, and the defenders have relatively sufficient human resources).

Nanjing City is completely a magnified Lushun Fortress.

"[-] dead, [-] injured!" Xiao Yao said to Jiang Weiguo, "If there are no major accidents, this is a guaranteed victory!"

"Well, I can't wait!" Jiang Weiguo looked forward to it.

Chapter 243 Preparing for Nanjing (3)

"Cut it all! Cut it all!" Jiang Weiguo stood on a certain slope of Zijin Mountain and directed loudly, "I cut down all the trees near the artillery positions, trench defense lines, and tunnel entrances and exits! If so, cut down as many isolation zones as possible, and all the trees at the foot of the mountain must be cut down! The bushes must also be cleared!" He lived like he was presiding over the demolition in later generations.

Zijin Mountain is one of the four famous mountains in the south of the Yangtze River. It has the reputation of "Jinling Yuxiu". It is well-deserved to use the words "picturesque" to describe Zijin Mountain.

The entire mountain has a radius of about [-] kilometers and is almost completely covered by vegetation. It has more than [-] mu of forest. There are towering old trees and giant trees everywhere on the mountain. They are all top choices, and Zijin Mountain is also an important part of Nanjing's "beauty".

At this time, Jiang Weiguo is doing an "evil thing" that spoils the scenery and wastes everything. He is commanding tens of thousands of migrant workers to cut down the trees on Zijin Mountain all over the mountains. The spittle from all over the world and even foreign saliva from overseas were drowned, but at this time, it was helpless and inevitable, because this is a time of war, and everything must serve the war and victory.

Zijin Mountain is the first important position of the national army to defend Nanjing. It must not be lost. The trees on the mountain must be cut down. Otherwise, the Japanese army will set fire to the mountain or throw incendiary bombs with airplanes or artillery bombardment. The national army on the mountain will be in a sea of ​​​​fire and smoke They were burned to death and smoked to death.

Tens of thousands of workers, tens of thousands of axes and saws are like a swarm of termites and locusts. Wherever they go, the hillsides change from the original vibrant and refreshing yellow-green to lifeless barren hills. On the slope, the trees fell in groups like people shrouded in the firepower of machine guns. The "creaking-booming" sound of falling trees continued, as dull as a shell exploding in the distance.

Tall and tall dove trees, metasequoia, and bald fir, evergreen cypresses, pines, and cedars, slim Eucommia, walnuts, and ginkgoes, and colorful yellow lotus, roses, and greengages... The crowd cut whatever they saw, and there was nothing to worry about. Many trees on Zijin Mountain can be described as having a "long history". Among the trees that have been cut down, the tree with the most annual rings even has more than 500 rings. China was still in the early Ming Dynasty 500 years ago. , Maybe that tree was planted by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

But none of that matters now.

"Alas! Do you really want to do this? Do you really want to do this?" Song Meiling, who was standing beside Jiang Weiguo, felt her heart prick.

Jiang Weiguo and Song Meiling were at the gate of "Meiling Palace" at this time. Meiling Palace is a three-story palace-style villa building with double eaves. It has the reputation of "the first villa in the Far East". On the mountain is a gift from Chiang Kai-shek to Song Meiling.

Meiling Palace is not only magnificent, but also has a unique overall layout. A large linear plane tree was specially planted on Xiaohongshan, forming a "yellow heart-shaped large arc", and Meiling Palace is located in this The pendant of the "yellow heart-shaped arc" is viewed from a high altitude, and the "yellow heart-shaped arc" is like a string of necklaces, and the Meiling Palace is the sapphire on the necklace.

But at this time, the "sapphire" was still there, but the "necklace" was gone, because the trees were all cut down by the workers organized by Jiang Weiguo, which made Song Meiling very heartbroken.

"Mother, there is no way!" Jiang Weiguo comforted Soong Meiling, "Now is the time of war! The Japanese army is coming! No matter how well we protect Nanjing, once Nanjing is lost, everything in Nanjing will fall to Japan in vain. Is it in someone's hands?"

"Having said that..." Song Meiling was still very sad and sad, "What a wonderful place... It's such a pity that it was ruined like this! Weiguo, before I married your father, I lived in the United States most of the time, but I also quickly fell in love with the place when I moved to Nanjing.

Nanjing is really a wonderful place with outstanding people and outstanding talents!But... now it has become so devastated, dilapidated and dilapidated, I have to feel sad... Look at the trees that have been cut down, some of them have grown for hundreds of years!If you want to recover in the future, it is not something that a generation can do! "

Jiang Weiguo was silent for a while, and comforted Soong Meiling again: "Mother, after defeating Japan, I will build you two beautiful Japanese-style villas by the side of Mount Fuji and Lake Biwa, and plant a large cherry blossom tree as compensation for you. You see How about it?"

Song Meiling couldn't help but smile wryly: "Weiguo, you really know how to speak, and you really dare to speak. Okay, since you have said everything, I will take it seriously. Then you must keep your word!"

Jiang Weiguo looked very serious: "Of course you have to keep your word! Mother, we have made a deal! At that time, even if you want to live in the Japanese imperial palace, I will let you get your wish!"

Song Meiling smiled and said, "Okay, we've made a deal!"

"Oh!" Jiang Weiguo slapped his head, "Almost forgot the trees in the city! The trees outside the city must be cut down, and the trees in the city must also be cut down!" He hurriedly ran to give an order.

Song Meiling's heartache, which had finally been relieved, surged up again.

The greening in Nanjing is very good. Because Soong Meiling loves French sycamores, Chiang Kai-shek planted sycamore trees everywhere in Nanjing, but now Jiang Weiguo has chopped down them all.

All aspects of war preparations in Nanjing are proceeding in an orderly manner. The troops are being reorganized, and the migrant workers are also sweating hard. One of them is to fortify the walls and clear the fields.

According to Jiang Weiguo's order, all the trees on the five mountains built as the commanding heights in Nanjing and outside Nanjing were cut down (the trees at the foot of the mountain were cut first, and then the vegetation coverage was cut into a grid pattern, cutting out criss-cross patterns. The fire protection zone, to prevent the fire from forming all over the mountains and uncontrollable wildfires), the crops within a radius of [-] kilometers of Nanjing City were harvested, and those that could not be harvested were directly set on fire, and the residents were all moved out and could be taken away All supplies are taken away, and those that cannot be taken away are directly destroyed, all poultry and livestock are taken away, fish ponds and shrimp ponds are all cleaned up, all fruits on fruit trees are also picked, and unripe ones are all destroyed.

There are too many things that Jiang Weiguo needs to worry about. Originally, he was not a big official, at best he was a colonel and chief of staff, but he has a special status. He is both a "high-level" and a "basic". The imperial envoy", so many things need him to do it himself.

The evacuation of civilians is one of Jiang Weiguo's top concerns. He never wants the Nanjing Massacre in history to happen again. Moreover, there are two major differences between the current situation and the original history. One is Millions of civilians in southern Jiangsu continued to flock to Nanjing (Jiang Weiguo asked the Maritime Bureau to vigorously publicize the result of the "Chongming Island tragedy"). Second, the Japanese army who attacked the city would inevitably pay far more than the original historical price. The more casualties, the Japanese army Naturally, the animal nature of the people became stronger, so all the civilians in Nanjing had to be evacuated except those who assisted the army in fighting.

The way to leave Nanjing is by land and water (transport planes must be given priority to serve the army), Xiaguan Wharf, Pukou Railway Station... Overcrowded day and night, boat tickets doubled and skyrocketed, the reason why they doubled and skyrocketed, one is true The supply is in short supply and the demand is extremely tense. The second is that officials, businessmen and scalpers are speculating in it, taking the opportunity to drive up ticket prices.

After Jiang Weiguo arrived at the Xiaguan Wharf, he was horrified by the sight in front of him. The scene was full of voices and crowds. Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people were helping the old and the young, dragging their children and children, preparing to board the boat to cross the river or go against the sea. Along the Yangtze River to Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Chongqing and other places in the upper reaches, people all over the mountains and plains gathered into mighty waves like mountain torrents and avalanches; beside the wharf, goods, salutes, and garbage piled up like mountains, men's shouts, women's shouts The cries of children, the whistle of ships on the river, and the sound of waves roared deafeningly together. The gendarmes of the Gendarmerie and the soldiers who assisted the gendarmes struggled to maintain the crumbling order (there was no police in Nanjing at this time, because the city Governance has been completely militarized, with police officers either leaving as civilians or joining the gendarmerie).

Since the Nanjing Garrison Command repeatedly emphasized that the army should maintain discipline, there was basically no incident of military police extorting civilians (people who are greedy for money must be afraid of death, and since they are afraid of death, they must have left Nanjing. is a real soldier), but still a lot of unfair things happened.

Countless refugees need to leave Nanjing by boat. Naturally, every seat and every space on the boat is very precious. Almost every boat is seriously overloaded. Several overloaded boats have even sunk in the Yangtze River, and hundreds of people have drowned in total. According to reason, the ship should carry people, but Jiang Weiguo saw: some ships have large bags and small bags, piled up into small mountains, containing the family property of some dignitaries and nobles, as well as fat officials, rich ladies full of jewels, and coquettish women with heavy make-up. Girls, oil-headed and noodle-faced sons occupy a large number of valuable ship spaces, but leave a large number of poor people ruthlessly on the shore, regardless of life and death. The common people who got on the boat were driven off, and some servants even beat the common people aggressively.

When the catastrophe is approaching, privileges are rampant, which makes Jiang Weiguo's teeth itchy with anger.

"What's going on?" Jiang Weiguo was furious when he saw twenty or thirty people, a dozen dogs, and items stuffed half the cabin on a luxuriously decorated small ship.

That small ship can hold at least 300 people, and if it is crowded, it can hold [-] to [-] people, but the upper half of the cabin is full of items related to dogs, and the rest of the space that can accommodate at least [-] people can only take [-] or [-] people. Twenty or thirty people and a dozen dogs are a huge waste of space.

Sun Tao hurriedly stepped forward to inquire, and the person in charge on the boat said arrogantly: "This is the Kong family's boat!"

"How can it be used to pretend to be a dog but not a person?" Sun Tao argued, "Didn't you see that there are so many people on the shore who are not on board?"

"Are you kidding? This ship has been chartered by Ms. Kong Er! It is specially used to transport her pet dogs! These pet dogs of Ms. Kong Er are all purebred famous brand high-end dogs from abroad! They can't stand the fright and crowding! How can we let those common people get on board?"

Sun Tao ran back and told Jiang Weiguo what had happened. Jiang Weiguo was startled: "Second Miss Kong? Kong Lingjun?"

Kong Lingjun was the second daughter of Kong Xiangxi, and her mother was Song Ailing. Song Ailing's second sister, Soong Qingling, was Mr. Sun Yat-sen's wife, and her third sister, Song Meiling, was Chiang Kai-shek's wife and Jiang Weiguo's nominal mother at this time. Therefore, first of all, Jiang Weiguo and Kong Lingjun were related. Secondly, Kong Lingjun is slightly inferior to Jiang Weiguo but still a first-class "second generation" in the Republic of China; thirdly, Kong Lingjun is deeply loved and even favored by Song Meiling, 360 days a year, Kong Lingjun spends two to three hundred days with Song Meiling of.

"Hello!" Jiang Weiguo strode forward and shouted, "Do you know who I am?"

"Second...Second Young Master?" The servants of the Kong family on the boat hurriedly saluted.

"Throw those dogs and those things on the shore for me, and use the boat to carry the people!" Jiang Weiguo ordered.

"Second Young Master, this can't be done!" The steward waved his hands hastily, "Miss Kong Er specially chartered this boat! She told us to send all her pet dogs to Wuhan. Bad luck!"

"Sun Tao!" Jiang Weiguo looked at Sun Tao, "Go! Get on the boat and throw all those dogs and those messy things on the boat into the Yangtze River! Then conscript that boat to contain ordinary people!"

Sun Tao was taken aback for a moment, then his eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Understood!" Although Kong Lingjun was frightening, worrying about gods, and afraid of ghosts, almost no one dared to offend, but Jiang Weiguo was more "aggressive" than her. It doesn't matter if it offends her or not.

With the support of Jiang Weiguo, apart from Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling, Sun Tao, even the king of heaven, dared to fight hard. With a big wave of his hand, he led a group of guards like wolves and tigers to the ship that was captured by Kong Lingjun. On the boat used to transport dogs, amidst people yelling and plopping into the water, all the seventeen expensive dogs on board, as well as dog cages, dog beds, dog food, dog toys, etc., were thrown into the Yangtze River. The family servants were dumbfounded at first, and then screamed, and then jumped into the water to save the dogs.

"Get on board! Everyone on board!" After forcing the crew to drive the boat to Xiaguan Wharf, Jiang Weiguo stood on the bow and shouted loudly, "Let women, children, and the elderly get on board first! Don't crowd! Keep order!"

The ecstatic crowd rushed over one after another, and many people recognized Jiang Weiguo (because Jiang Weiguo had been on the headlines of the newspaper for a while), Qiqi thanked him with gratitude: "Thank you, second son!" "Thank you, second son!"

"I issued an order as the deputy chief of staff of the Nanjing Garrison Command!" Jiang Weiguo said sharply, "A person can only carry ten kilograms of personal belongings, and pets are not allowed on the boat or car! Those who violate the order, I will send troops Get him out!"

Jiang Weiguo's words were almost equivalent to Chiang Kai-shek's words, full of weight and promise, and immediately scared many dignitaries who relied on money and power to occupy a large number of ship spaces to transport their personal belongings and hurriedly threw everything they could throw on the shore.

Jiang Weiguo was destined to be a "big man" by nature. This is indeed out of his control. He can't even be a small man if he wants to. In fact, Jiang Weiguo (Meng Xiang) has been active in the military and political high-level since July 7 last year. In the village, he rarely went to the grassroots level, not because he didn't want to, but because he was too busy with time and didn't have time to "go deep into the masses".

However, at the moment, Jiang Weiguo began to really go deep into the grassroots, mainly the army.

Jiang Weiguo had been in contact with the Central Army before, and it was basically the elite of the Central Army. However, a large number of local troops participated in the Songhu Battle, which made Jiang Weiguo further and unforgettable feel the backwardness of the Chinese army, not the backwardness in morale, spirit, and will. , but the system, system, level, and conditions are backward.

Numbers are the most direct. There will be casualties in the army in war, but in the total number of casualties, how many are "injured"? How much "dead"?That's where the details come in.

Take the example of previous battles in history. In the battle of Songhu, the Japanese army suffered a total of 6 casualties, of which 4 were injured and 2 were killed. At this time, the Japanese military system was in a relatively good and healthy state ( It naturally became very bad in the late period of World War II), so the number of Japanese casualties accounted for about 33% of the total number of casualties; the Battle of Iwo Jima, this battle was a rare and fierce battle encountered by the US military. The US military suffered a total of 28686 casualties, of which 21865 were injured , 6821 people were killed, so the death toll of the US military accounted for about 23.8% of the total number of casualties; as for the Chinese army?Even with the current Battle of Songhu (this battle has been improved by Jiang Weiguo and has become better than the original history), the total casualties of the national army are about 30, of which about 16 were injured and about 14 were killed. Therefore, the death toll of the national army accounted for about 46.7% of the total number of casualties; therefore, under normal circumstances, the Japanese army had three casualties and one death, the U.S. military had five casualties and one death, and the Chinese soldiers had two casualties and one death.

Why is the death rate of Chinese soldiers so high?Because the medical system of the Chinese army is too backward, the medical level is too low, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, doctors and nurses.

Jiang Weiguo went to the real front-line wounded soldiers several times, and all he saw were horrible and miserable scenes: the air was full of bloody, foul, rotten, musty, sour and other pungent and disgusting smells. The smell was strange, and the scene was even more frightening. A large number of wounded soldiers covered in blood, tattered military uniforms, and their faces were black, pale, or blue were scattered like logs in a lumberyard. Struggling, some were moaning and wriggling, some were motionless, their eyes were as dull as those of the dead, swarms of flies were flying on the wounded soldiers and among the pools of blood on the ground, some wounded even waved their hands away , Some wounded soldiers no longer had the strength or thought to chase them away, and lay motionless, letting flies crawl all over their bodies, and then...letting their bodies crawl with maggots.

Whether the wounded soldiers were slightly injured or seriously injured, the wounds were shocking, but the wound itself was no longer scary. What was scary was the writhing and rolling maggots on it. People were still alive, but the wounds and flesh on their bodies were already rotting. It stinks, and people are also dying in this process; the wounded soldiers are all extremely dirty, covered in blood, pus, and slime, and their pants are full of feces and filth.

There was no anesthesia, so some wounded soldiers were forced to undergo amputation while they were still alive. The screams and howls were extremely terrifying, and because of the lack of medical treatment and medicine, the postoperative survival rate of wounded soldiers who were amputated was pitifully low; Without anti-inflammatory drugs, the wounded soldiers watched helplessly as even a small wound on their bodies became inflamed, pus, deteriorated, and rotted due to infection with germs; without hemostatic agents, wounded soldiers with damaged large blood vessels kept bleeding More than that, the wound was bleeding profusely like a wrist cut, and eventually he died of living blood drained from his body. Those with a little medical knowledge would put the bandages in a cauldron and boil the pigs with boiling water, but they still could not be thoroughly sterilized, resulting in the death of a large number of wounded soldiers from wound infection; without pre-reserved plasma, a large number of wounded soldiers died of organ failure due to excessive blood loss .

In every front-line field hospital, wounded soldiers go crazy or commit suicide every day because of severe pain or nervous breakdown. The corpses of the soldiers were buried hastily at the end. Even because there was no time to dig a hole, the dead and wounded soldiers were piled up in layers, with blood and pus flowing horizontally, the stench was so high, flies and mice were scurrying around.

In fact, a large part of the wounded soldiers of the national army can survive, if they can get timely and effective treatment, if their troops and hospitals can have enough doctors, nurses, medicines, and equipment, but, Either none at all, or almost none.

On average, a division of the national army has only a few dozen or a dozen medical personnel, and they mainly serve the officers. After the soldiers are injured, they can only survive on their own, or rely on some folk remedies to seek medical treatment. That faint hope of survival.

Jiang Weiguo felt that he was already a soldier with a solid heart, but he still couldn't help crying like rain in these front-line wounded soldiers hospitals like hell on earth.

"Those who are clamoring to massacre the sun and destroy Russia all day long, can you first look at the sufferings of your compatriots?" Jiang Weiguo cried, "The lives of Chinese people are really worthless! Americans are so rich that they use airplanes to pay thousands The frontline troops several kilometers away deliver coffee and chocolates, while our Chinese soldiers are so poor that we don’t even have the chance to receive medical treatment for injuries!”

These Chinese soldiers who took inferior weapons to the battlefield to defend their home and country and bravely fought foreign invaders who were armed to the teeth, no matter what party or faction they belonged to, no matter where they came from, they were all Chinese warriors. But they have endured too much suffering and misfortune.

What kind of fate will the Chinese soldiers who go to the battlefield usher in?First of all, you have to participate in the battle of life and death. Those who die will die. If the survivors are injured, then the nightmare will begin. Bacteria, the fate will be more or less bad, a little injury may be fatal, and you will suffer from other diseases due to weakened immunity, lack of medicines, and lack of nutrition. And directly drink the dirty water in the puddles on the side of the road, and get infected with germs (for example, Liang Sizhong, the third son of Mr. Liang Qichao, participated in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War as a Chinese soldier. As a result, he accidentally drank the dirty water on the roadside during the battle and contracted peritonitis and died. death), injury and disease, almost certain death.

Death in battle, death from serious injuries, death from injuries, death from illness, death from exhaustion, death from starvation... The enemy of Chinese soldiers is not just the Japanese invading army.

Take the Battle of Songhu as an example. If the remains of the national army officers and soldiers who died on the battlefield were brought down, they would be buried. However, many of the remains could not be brought down. They could only lie slowly in the confrontation area between the two armies. Smelly, rotten, turned into food for crows, flies and wild dogs, and finally turned into bones scattered all over the place. A large part of the wounded soldiers who were sent to the field hospital after being injured would die in the hospital in pain, and then be hastily Buried near the hospital or directly abandoned near the hospital, when the whole army retreated, the troops retreated and died all the way, and the remains of Chinese soldiers were all along the retreat road.

...So, why is the death rate of Chinese soldiers not high?

"Boss, according to reliable information, a large number of traitors, Japanese spies, and Japanese troops disguised as refugees or the national army have mixed into Nanjing with the refugee crowd and the retreating national army!" Liu Qihu, head of the Nanjing Station of the Maritime Bureau, said A report was handed to Jiang Weiguo.

"We want to win the next battle in Nanjing, and clearing our interior is the most important thing!" Xiao Yao added with a stern expression, "There is a saying that 'the strongest fortress is often broken through from the inside '.

This is a major event, we must not take it lightly, we must come up with practical and effective measures and iron-blooded thunderbolt methods!"

"Is there any countermeasure?" Jiang Weiguo looked at Liu Qihu and Xiao Yao with a heavy heart.

"Yes!" Liu Qihu nodded, and took out a stack of things to show to Jiang Weiguo, "This is Vice Chancellor Xiao's idea!"

"Will these things be useful?" Jiang Weiguo looked at the stack of things in amazement.

"It's just one way.

It can’t be said that it’s a hundred trials, but at least a batch can be cleared!” Xiao Yao said.

Chapter 244 Preparing for Nanjing (4)

French colony of Vietnam, the northern port city of Haiphong.

By the pier flying the blue, white and red tricolor flag, three ocean-going cargo ships with large tonnage and deep draft are slowly entering the port, and the French flags are flying on board. There is no doubt that these three cargo ships are all French ships , belongs to a certain nautical commercial company in mainland France, and comes from mainland France on the other side of the earth.

Whether it is France, or the Great Powers such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and Italy, which also have overseas colonies, their attitudes towards the colonies are similar: they use guns to bring "modern democratic civilization" to the local people, and at the same time, continuously, day and night Take away a large amount of original resources from the local area, squeeze the aborigines in the colony, so as to make their homeland richer, make their homeland more democratic and civilized, and let a large number of local officials and businessmen earn a lot of money. Picking out a little bit of residue between the teeth "gives back" to the aborigines in the colony, which is called "mutual benefit and win-win".

Because of this, any official sent by a major power to an overseas colony is very greedy or extremely greedy for money. The logic is ready-made: the ghost knows how long the country can control this colony, since it is destined to be unable to control it for a long time, and these lowly locals , ignorant, savage, dirty, rude natives are unlikely to be members of the noble Western democratic civilized society, this colony cannot really become the native territory of the country, naturally, before losing it, grab it hard Special fishing is the only thing that has to be done quickly. The government does it, and of course individuals do it too.

For example, in the current French occupation of Vietnam, none of the French officials sent here by the French government is to "let Vietnam truly acquire modern democracy and civilization, let the Vietnamese truly accept French rule, and let Vietnam truly integrate into France." And eventually become the territory of France", their working purpose is very simple: to make money and enjoy themselves during their term of office, and by the way play with these local Vietnamese women who are petite but have a special flavor.

Three freighters docked slowly one by one, and a small group of white-skinned soldiers and officials lazily stepped forward to complete the formalities. The leader was a major general of the French army. A document, and then whispered something in his ear.

The major general showed a surprised expression, then hurriedly boarded the ship, and strode into the cabin. Ten minutes later, he got off the ship with an angry and nervous expression, and walked quickly to a certain private room of a small French restaurant by the pier.

"Mr. Jin! Mr. Zeng! What's going on?" After closing the door of the private room, the major general yelled at the two guests who were leisurely drinking tea in the private room. He didn't dare to make too much noise, because this matter is not visible. , but he was very angry indeed.

The two guests are not white, but oriental yellow. Their skin is as dark as Vietnamese, but their body shape and facial features are obviously not Vietnamese.