I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

A worker walked to the Sun Flag, took off his shoes, and walked past the Sun Flag with bare feet. The soldiers and Maritime Statistics Bureau agents next to him carefully looked at the worker's feet to see if there was a split big toe. If there is, it proves that this worker is likely to be a Japanese spy, because the Japanese wear clogs since they were young, which leads to severe splitting of the big toe.

The worker, who has normal feet, stepped on the sun flag with great pleasure, even amused, spat a mouthful of greenish phlegm at the enlarged photo of Emperor Hirohito, and then shouted: "Hirohito It’s a male dog in heat!” The worker knew the sequence of the ritual process very well, because all the workers in front of him had done it this way.

A supervising lieutenant officer and an agent of the Maritime Statistics Bureau nodded at each other: "Pass, go and register your name!"

The worker said happily, "Boss, so the emperor of the little devil looks like this? Damn it! This little forced child actually sent an army of little devils to attack us in China. How can a mouthful of phlegm be enough?" He spoke fiercely He spat at the photo of Emperor Hirohito without hesitation.

The surrounding workers laughed together, and all of them leaned forward and backward. As Chinese, they naturally did not care about doing this.

The sun flag on the ground has been stepped on with layers of dirty footprints, and the photo of Emperor Hirohito on the wall has been soaked by countless thick phlegm.

Stepping on the Japanese flag and spitting at the Japanese emperor while shouting swear words that seriously insult Hirohito, the Chinese certainly don't care, but the Japanese do.

In the follow-up line waiting for the ceremony, a worker who looked like an ordinary Chinese from his appearance and clothing had been gnashing his teeth and enduring the scene. The muscles on his face were shaking violently, his fists clenched. His joints were rattling, his whole body was trembling due to extremely uncontrollable manic emotions, his eyes were shooting out poisonous gazes like poisonous snakes, his head was buzzing loudly, the team was moving forward little by little, his legs seemed to be filled with lead. Walking with difficulty, finally, when it was his turn, he broke out completely, because he couldn't do it at all.

"Bageyalu!" The Japanese, disguised as a Chinese worker, roared wildly, "You Chinese pigs!"

"The Japanese! Catch him!" The surrounding military agents and a large number of migrant workers immediately rushed forward, knocking the Japanese to the ground and tying him up.

The voice of the emperor is called "Tamamon" by the Japanese, and the picture of the emperor is called "Mikage" by the Japanese. When the Japanese hear "Tamato", they must stand at attention with awe, and when they see "Mikage", they must bow and salute.

The tradition of respecting the emperor for thousands of years and the deliberate brainwashing of the Japanese people by the Japanese government in recent decades have already penetrated the Japanese people's thought of respecting the emperor into their blood and bone marrow, making the emperor completely the spiritual belief of the Japanese nation. Completely deified as sacred and inviolable, the degree of obsession of the Japanese is not inferior to the fanatical religious beliefs of the cultists.

Doing "offensive things to the emperor" to the Japanese at this time is like the North Korean people in later generations doing "offensive things to Kim Sun".

The Japanese pretending to be Chinese can tolerate other things, but they can't bear this kind of thing at all. Those with weak concentration will go crazy and expose themselves when they see this situation. Those with strong concentration can barely watch the Chinese step on their feet The sun flag, spitting at the emperor "Mikage" and shouting insulting words to the emperor without revealing, but they can't do this kind of thing themselves, the Japanese who can really pass this "saliva ceremony" can be said to be The few Japanese spies caught included those who couldn't make the move, those who looked strange, and those who tried to sabotage the ceremony.

Xiao Yao came up with this method. He asked Liu Qihu, head of the Nanjing Station of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, to specially prepare a large number of custom-made large sun flags and large photos of Emperor Hirohito, just to do this.

Objectively speaking, Xiao Yao's method is completely pediatrics, it is basically a rogue's method of "dog meat can't get on the table" and a despicable villain's trick, but it really works, and the effect is immediate. Japanese disguised as Chinese, and this method has a big effect.

"Eight Grid Road!"

In the Ministry of Army in Tokyo, Japan, the Minister of the Army, Gen. Sugiyama, almost went crazy after seeing the news report from Nanjing. In the photo in the news report, Chinese soldiers and civilians line up to step on the sun flag and spit on the photo of Emperor Hirohito.

"The Chinese people bully people too much!" General Sugiyama Geng hissed with red eyes, "How dare you openly insult the emperor! The imperial army must crush Nanjing! Kill all the Chinese people in Nanjing!"

Chapter 248

The Battle of Nanjing is already imminent.

Although there are many worries, fears, hidden dangers, and strong opposition voices, "continuing to take strong military strikes against China" is the general determination and unchangeable decision of the top Japanese military, but "continue to take strong military strikes against China Whether "a powerful military strike" is equivalent to "attacking Nanjing" still has great differences among the top Japanese military.

The first reason that prompted the Japanese military to decide to continue its offensive on the Chinese battlefield was that the talks between the Chinese and Japanese governments had completely collapsed at the negotiating table.

Japan’s condition was (in fact, it was the request of the Japanese military, and the Japanese cabinet was still willing to lower the request, but did not dare to violate the meaning of the Japanese military) “Japan must acquire the city of Shanghai and the two cities and three provinces in North China (Peking, Tianjin, etc.) City, Hebei Province, Chahar Province, and Suiyuan Province), China’s condition is to “restore the situation to that before the July [-]th Incident, and the Japanese army will completely withdraw from North China and Shanghai (before the July [-]th Incident, the Japanese army The right to station troops in North China and Shanghai, that is, the North China Garrison and the Shanghai Special Marine Corps)", in other words, China can temporarily acquiesce in "Japan's substantive Control", but "Japan is not allowed to get involved in China's customs areas", and China will not recognize the puppet Manchukuo, let alone publicly beg for peace, apology, or compensation from Japan.

For the same item, the seller offered a price of [-], but the buyer only offered a price of [-]. Naturally, no matter how you negotiated, there was no result.

The two sides fought for a month. Although the German government, acting as a mediator, tried its best between China and Japan, China and Japan finally broke up in a strong smell of gunpowder.

Since we can't reach an agreement, we will continue to fight.

How to fight?There was a fierce dispute among the high-level Japanese army. Generally speaking, it was divided into "three strategies of top, middle and bottom".

The best strategy is to surrender without fighting. From a long-term perspective, Japan will resolutely abandon the current war situation that is favorable to Japan, show "true sincerity" to negotiate a peace and armistice with China, and abandon the occupied areas that Japan acquired by force in China's Guannei area. and interests, fully withdraw and maintain the Japanese forces in China in the four northeastern provinces and the Taiwan region. Relying on Japan's "servant country" and "Japan's resource supply place" and "Japan's commodity dumping place", instead of occupying China by force, control China with soft means such as strategy, politics, and economy, and tie China to Japan's chariot, thus This enables Japan to obtain Chinese resources while avoiding being trapped in the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, and then accumulates and concentrates its forces to deal with Japan's largest enemy, the United States, and its second largest enemy, the Soviet Union. Win over China to realize the dual strategic purpose of Japan and Germany to form an alliance;

Medium strategy: give up attacking Nanjing, implement the tactics of "surrounding and not fighting" against Nanjing, plan to encircle Nanjing with two or three divisions, block all water and land passages in and out of Nanjing, and build defensive positions [-] to [-] kilometers outside Nanjing. , dig deep trenches, build high walls, use defense instead of attack, long-term siege, and then use two or three mechanized or motorized independent mixed brigades to carry out mobile combat cooperation outside Nanjing to prevent the defenders of Nanjing from counterattacking or breaking out. Subsequently, the Japanese army in East China and the Japanese army in North China launched a comprehensive "go hand in hand". After that, they went from north to south with all their strength, joined forces with the Japanese army in East China to launch a north-south attack, took Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places, connected the occupied areas of North China and East China, occupied China's most prosperous and developed North China and East China, and then marched on South China to capture Hainan Island , Leizhou Peninsula, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other southern regions of China, completely cutting off China’s external channels. After completing the above steps, Japan changed its military offensive methods and used political inducements and economic strikes to destroy the retreat into western China. The National Government, at the same time, actively manages the occupied areas, realizes the war to support the war, slowly delays, consumes, and traps the National Government, wins over and supports the anti-Chiang forces within the National Government, and finally achieves or eliminates or overthrows or forced landing The purpose of the National Government or causing the National Government to self-collapse and disintegrate in the face of poverty;

The worst policy: attack Nanjing.

In the fierce dispute among the high-level Japanese military, there are very few people who agree with the "best policy", because almost no one is willing to spit out the fat that has reached their mouths, not to mention that the samurai warriors in the Japanese military headquarters are more or less There is a kind of arrogant arrogance and arrogance, and choosing the "best policy" is equivalent to bowing their heads and admitting defeat in their eyes, which is unacceptable to them, and they don't think that "the empire will fall into the quagmire of the China War", "how can things be so serious! Ishihara Wanji is simply scaremongering! The empire may not be able to conquer China within three months, but it is more than enough to conquer China within a year! Ishihara Wanji is simply afraid of China, which is extremely ridiculous! How to defeat the United States and the Soviet Union?" This is the view of many people in the top ranks of the Japanese military.

The Chinese and Japanese governments negotiated through German channels, which is barely an attempt by the Japanese military to "best policy". "A truce is fine, but China must hand over the two cities and three provinces in North China and Shanghai to the empire! Otherwise, the imperial army would be in vain. How could the empire accept China's begging if it did not allow the empire to gain enough benefits?" General Sugiyama Moto said.

With the complete breakdown of the Sino-Japanese negotiations, the "best policy" was completely abandoned by the Japanese military.

There are some high-ranking Japanese soldiers who agree with the "middle policy", but not many. The leader is Ishihara Wanji, "Since the best policy has been abandoned, we must choose the best policy! Otherwise, the empire will really fall into a dangerous situation!" He repeatedly appealed, but There were very few respondents, and those who agreed with him mainly included Lieutenant General Hayao Tada, Commander of the Fourth Army, Lieutenant General Hata Toshiroku, Commander of the Fourth Army, Lieutenant General Hisao Nishio of the Second Army, Kanji Ishihara's friend, and the Division of the Fifth Division. Lieutenant General Seishiro Nagagaki also supported the "Central Policy", but the number of opponents was several times that of the supporters. General Sugiyama Moto, Minister of War, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya, the Military Councillor, General Toshiichi Terauchi, Commander-in-Chief of the North China Front Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Hirasuke, Commander of the Third Army, General Matsui Iwane, Commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, and others strongly opposed it.

"Nanjing is the capital of China! Since the empire wants to conquer China, Nanjing must be taken! This is a fundamental common sense! How can it run counter to it? How can the imperial army not attack the enemy's capital? It's the joke of skating!"

"Taking Nanjing is of great military significance, and its political significance is immeasurable! The capture of Nanjing will deal an unprecedented heavy blow to the morale and people's hearts of China, causing many senior officials of the National Government and a large number of Chinese people Losing the delusion and belief of continuing to resist the empire, the number of peacemakers, pro-Japanese factions, and anti-war factions in China will increase sharply, and they will kneel down to the empire desperately for peace.

Perhaps, after Nanjing is captured by the imperial army, China will collapse immediately! "

"Chiang Kai-shek is in Nanjing, and he uttered wild words claiming that the imperial army did not dare to attack Nanjing, even if they really fought, they would not be able to defeat it! This is a blatant insult to the imperial army! Is it tolerable, which is unbearable? If you don't destroy the city to avenge shame, the imperial army How will the imperial army rule the world in the future? If the imperial army really did not attack Nanjing as Chiang Kai-shek said, wouldn’t it be tantamount to blatantly admitting that what he said was right? Wouldn’t it be tantamount to blatantly admitting that the imperial army would not be able to attack Nanjing? Let me ask, the imperial army of Japan will lose face Where to put it? Where to put the face of the Great Japanese Empire? Where is the might of the imperial army? Where is the prestige of the empire?"

"There must be difficulties in fighting Nanjing, but how can the imperial army be afraid of danger? Lushun Fortress was known as 'impregnable and indestructible' back then, but it was still conquered by the imperial army? The imperial army has always used the weak to defeat the strong and the few Conquering the masses! Now that the Imperial Army is strong and the Chinese Army is weak, the Imperial Army is timid and timid? It is simply absurd! Those who say that Nanjing can’t be defeated are simply “enhancing the ambitions of others and destroying their own prestige”!”

"If Nanjing is really bypassed, even if the imperial army occupies more than half of China, the Chinese will continue to resist, because Nanjing, which has been standing still, is their belief, symbol, and banner in their hearts! Nanjing must be captured! Destroy China Man's belief in resistance!"

Those who support the "middle policy" and oppose the "low policy" can be justified, but those who support the "low policy" and oppose the "middle policy" are also justified.

In fact, many of the high-level Japanese who supported the attack on Nanjing had selfish motives. They were either eager to make contributions and become famous, or eager to avenge their hatred and wash away their past shame. However, support for the attack on Nanjing is indeed the mainstream in the Japanese military. Compared with the high-level opposition voices, the middle-level and middle-level officers and soldiers of the Japanese army unanimously demanded to "capture Nanjing and conquer China".

Under the urgency, Ishihara Wanji hurriedly approached Lieutenant General Yoshijiro Umezu, the deputy chief of the army (equivalent to the second minister of the army), and asked Lieutenant General Umezu to express his support for the "China Policy" and increase the power and influence of supporting the "China Policy". , to suppress voices supporting the "bad policy".

The reason why Wanji Ishihara pinned his hopes on Lieutenant General Umezu was because Lieutenant General Umezu publicly expressed his support for the "non-expansion policy" when the July [-]th Incident broke out, so Ishihara Wanji believed that Lieutenant General Umezu would support the "China Policy" He even supported the "best policy", but Lieutenant General Meijin's reply surprised Ishihara Wanji: "Ishihara, Nanjing... must be fought!"

"What? Your Excellency, Deputy Chief, did I hear correctly?" Ishihara smiled in disbelief.

Lieutenant General Meijin said solemnly and resolutely: "Ishihara-kun, your strategic mind is indeed unique in the imperial military circle, but your thinking is a little simple. You are a theoretician, and there is still a certain distance from a practical man.

Yes, when the Marco Polo Bridge Incident happened, I strongly supported 'no expansion', because I was also very aware of the consequences of the empire falling into the quagmire of China, but there is no turning back!Even if it is wrong to start the war, you must go all out after the war, and you can no longer look forward and backward and be cautious.

It is already a pity to do wrong things, but if you hesitate to do wrong things, you will make more mistakes.

Just like the attack on Nanjing this time, I know that the strategic and military attack on Nanjing is a failure that outweighs the gains, but I firmly support the attack, and the sooner the attack, the better, because the Chinese army in Nanjing is continuing to strengthen Nanjing The more defensive power we have, the more hesitant we are, the greater the price we will pay after we actually do it. The reason is as simple as that.

Unswervingly executing the wrong thing is likely to mitigate the negative consequences of the wrong thing.

Right now, the ministers strongly support the fight against Nanjing, and you strongly oppose it. Yes, you are right, but you are doing the wrong thing. You have caused the military department to fall into long-term debate and indecision. The army took precious time for combat preparation.

The voices supporting the invasion of Nanjing basically suppressed the voices opposed to the invasion of Nanjing. If I also opposed the invasion, the two voices would be almost evenly matched.is gaining more preparation time because of our bickering.

So stop opposing and fight!And attacking Nanjing can indeed objectively promote the progress of the imperial army in this war!"

Ishihara Waner deeply felt that Mao Sai suddenly looked at Lieutenant General Meijin, although he was very unwilling, but he had to admit that the other party was right.

If the high-level Japanese army continues to quarrel endlessly at this time, the biggest beneficiary will still be the Chinese army. Therefore, we cannot continue to quarrel. Even if it is wrong to attack Nanjing, we must unswervingly start this war as soon as possible. fighting.

"Ishihara-kun, the attack on Nanjing is a foregone conclusion!" Lieutenant General Meijin looked at Ishihara with a smile and advised, "Stop trying to stop this matter, and use your brains on how to attack Nanjing!"

The de facto head of the Japanese Army and the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, has been hesitant about this matter. He is slightly inclined towards the "middle policy", that is, not to attack Nanjing. However, Nanjing on November 11 What happened on the 28st made him furious and completely turned to the "bad policy", which is to attack Nanjing, because the Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanjing lined up "stepping on the sun flag, spitting on the photo of Emperor Hirohito and shouting insults to Emperor Hirohito".

"The people of China are too deceitful! Chiang Kai-shek is so arrogant and arrogant!" Prince Zairen was so enraged that he smashed everything that could be smashed in the office on the spot, including several Tang Sancai antiques with a history of more than 300 years. It was brought back to Japan from the Tang Empire by the Japanese envoy to Tang Dynasty.

The high-level Japanese military, high-level Japanese government, and the general Japanese people who learned of this incident were completely outraged, because the nature of this incident can be called "unprecedented evil" and "horribly bad."

"The Chinese people insulted the emperor and the empire collectively and on a large scale in an organized and large-scale manner", which caused Japanese soldiers and civilians to erupt into a volcanic eruption of anger.

The Japanese regard the emperor as the "god of the present world", and firmly believe that the emperor family is the descendant of Amaterasu (the sun god), the legacy of Amaterasu in the world, and Amaterasu is the ancestor of the emperor family. The descendants of the Amaterasu Great God Wanshi series are "true gods who live in the world in a human way", absolutely sacred and infinite, absolutely supreme, and absolutely inviolable.

This kind of thinking is deeply rooted in the Japanese, and it has been deliberately strengthened, deepened, and exaggerated since the Meiji Emperor period, and has long been soaked into the blood and bone marrow of the Japanese; The supreme god of Shintoism, the Emperor is also the current "leader" of Shintoism. He not only controls the political power and military power of Japan, but also holds the divine power in Japan, making "the emperor is a god" not only the Japanese ideological belief but also the Japanese religion. Belief.

Objectively speaking, the vast majority of Japanese people really sincerely and sincerely believe that "the Emperor is a god", and they simply cannot tolerate such things as "the lowly and dirty Chinese people line up to spit on the Emperor Mikage" of.

Because of thousands of years of traditional culture, decades of brainwashing education, and a lack of broad-minded thinking, the Japanese military and civilians at the grassroots level almost all firmly believe that "the emperor is a god." If there is any skeptical thinking (such as Nishitakeichi, because he has been abroad and has a very open mind, of course he is not like the grassroots people in Japan who are closed-eyed and have no access to external information channels and who are regarded as The basic purpose of Japanese army officers and soldiers who are the focus of brainwashing education is so convinced), but it is also absolutely intolerable, because the fundamental purpose of the Japanese government's publicity that "the emperor is a god" is to use the emperor as a worship totem to shake Japan's military spirit and public opinion. If we are united, if we sit back and watch the soldiers and civilians of the enemy country openly insult the emperor on a large scale, but the Japanese government and the Japanese army do not take decisive measures, but only "strongly condemn and seriously protest", what will be the consequences?The mild ones will be overwhelmed and burned by the anger of the people and the grassroots officers and soldiers in the army, and the severe ones will cause the military and civilians to doubt and shake the "Emperor is God".

Therefore, the Japanese army had sufficient reason to attack Nanjing just because "the Chinese people insulted the emperor and the empire on a large scale in Nanjing".

"If you don't destroy Nanjing, you will not be a human being!" General Sugiyama Moto roared sharply.

On November 11, the Japanese Army Ministry and the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters passed the "Mainland Order No. 29", establishing a new "Central China Front Army" and ordering "to cooperate with the navy to capture the enemy's capital Nanjing."

The Central China Front Army was composed of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army", the Third Army, and the Fourth Army. Lieutenant General Hirasuke), 3th Army (commander Lieutenant General Hata Shunroku), 4th Army (commander Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya).

Starting from Shanghai, the Central China Front marched westward on a large scale, with the task of "capturing Nanjing" as stipulated in the document.

Up to this time, the Japanese military had successively established four major overseas military groups: the Kwantung Army, the Taiwan Army, the North China Front Army, and the Central China Front Army, all responsible for fighting against China.

"It's finally here!" After reading the report sent by the Tokyo Station of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, Jiang Weiguo was relieved. The peace talks did not succeed, the war continued, and the Battle of Nanjing was inevitable.

Peace is precious, but not all peace is good.

Jiang Weiguo was standing on a flat ground among the depressions on the Zijin Mountain at this time. The place that was originally shaded by greenery was left with devastated tree roots and weeds everywhere. At the same time, hundreds of graves sprung up like mushrooms after rain. It is a new tomb just built, with tombstones and graves, and no dead people, because the dead who are going to be buried here are still alive and well, including Jiang Weiguo himself.

Next to Jiang Weiguo is a new tomb. The tomb is very clean, about 1.8 meters long and half a meter wide, just enough for a person to lie in. The granite tombstone in front of the tomb is neatly engraved with three rows of words:

Tomb of Jiang Weiguo, a soldier of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China

Born in Tokyo on October [-], [-]

Died in battle in Nanjing on □ month □ day [-] AD

Looking at his tomb, Jiang Weiguo actually wanted to laugh: "I don't think I really want to sleep here?"

Next to Jiang Weiguo's tomb are "Huang Wei's Tomb", "Zhong Song's Tomb", "Du Yuming's Tomb", "Zheng Dongguo's Tomb", "Jizhangjian's Tomb", "Sun Liren's Tomb", "Liao Yaoxiang's Tomb", "Huang Baitao's Tomb" "Zhang Lingfu's Tomb", "Xiao Yao's Tomb" and many other tombs of middle and high-level military officers are neatly arranged, forming a phalanx of ghosts and heroes. Of course, they are all empty, at least for now.

This is Xiao Yao's idea, which originated from the "carrying the coffin" in ancient wars (for example, when Zuo Zongtang led the [-] Hunan Army to recover Xinjiang, he carried his own coffin and led the army to the expedition), the purpose is to further boost morale, Inspire the morale of the army and implement the Nanjing Army spirit of "fighting to the death" in this battle.

When Xiao Yao told Jiang Weiguo this idea, Jiang Weiguo was a little hard to accept: "Military division, isn't this just for show?"

In all fairness, Jiang Weiguo only wanted to "fight to the death" in Nanjing, and he didn't want to "fight to the death" in Nanjing. He really couldn't die easily, after all, there were still too many "big things" waiting for him to complete.

"A show?" Xiao Yao nodded, "Well, this word is used well, yes, it is a show, but we need its effect.

We are not lying, aren't we really going to die in Nanjing?I know you don't want to die because you have a bigger and farther historical mission on your shoulders, but to be serious, it is indeed possible for you to send your life here.

You are actually ready to die in Nanjing, so don't have any psychological burden or moral cleanliness, and set an example for all the soldiers who participated in the war! "

Jiang Weiguo found that Xiao Yao's eyes were really poisonous, and his understanding of himself was no less than his own.