I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Directly under the brigade headquarters: guard battalion, artillery battalion, engineer regiment, supply corps, special company, sniper company, communication company, gendarmerie, health team and other affiliated units;

④ Units directly under the division headquarters:

Colonel Luo Youlun, head of the 77th Cavalry Regiment (the regiment has 5 cavalry battalions, 1 mortar battalion, and 1 heavy machine gun battalion);

Division guard battalion, special company, sniper company, communication company, gendarmerie, 5 hospitals for wounded soldiers;

The total strength of the division is about 30000.

[The 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (the division has three brigades and six regiments)]

Commander Lieutenant General Song Xilian Deputy Commander Major General Zhong Bin

The division is mainly under the jurisdiction of:

201st Infantry Brigade (881st, 884th Infantry Regiments)

202st Infantry Brigade (882st, 885th Infantry Regiments)

203st Infantry Brigade (883st, 886th Infantry Regiments)

The total strength of the division is about 20000;

[The 99th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (the division has three brigades and six regiments)]

Commander Lieutenant General Li Yutang Deputy Commander Major General Qiu Qingquan

The division is mainly under the jurisdiction of:

1st Infantry Brigade (1st, 4th Infantry Regiments)

2st Infantry Brigade (2st, 5th Infantry Regiments)

3st Infantry Brigade (3st, 6th Infantry Regiments)

The total strength of the division is about 20000;

[The 100th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (the division has an eight-regiment system)]

Major General Li Rentao

师主要下辖：第1001至第1008团（每团下辖1个生化营、1个步兵营、1个辎重兵营）；

The total strength of the division is about 13000;

[The 145th Division of the National Revolutionary Army Army (the division belongs to the Sichuan Army and has a three-regiment system)]

Lieutenant General Rao Guohua, the division commander, has about 4000 troops in the division;

[The 170th Division of the National Revolutionary Army Army (the division belongs to the Gui Army and has a three-regiment system)]

The division commander, Major General Xia Guozhang, has about 5000 troops;

[The 182nd Division of the National Revolutionary Army Army (the division belongs to the Yunnan Army and has a three-regiment system)]

Lieutenant General An Enpu, the division commander, has about 4000 troops in the division;

[Nanjing Gendarmerie Regiment (the regiment has five battalions)]

Major General Xiao Shanling

团主要下辖：第1、第2、第3、第4、第5宪兵营；

The regiment has about 3000 troops (the regiment recruited young and middle-aged civilians in the city to join the regiment after the war, and its strength increased to about 7000);

【Nanjing Artillery Brigade (the brigade has 1 artillery regiment and 4 artillery battalions)】

Brigadier Major General Shi Wengui Deputy Brigadier Major General Cai Zhonghu

① Colonel Peng Mengji, commander of the Purple Mountain Artillery Regiment, Colonel Huang Guoshu, deputy commander of the regiment

There are 3 artillery battalions under the regiment: North Gaofeng Artillery Battalion, Xiaomao Mountain Artillery Battalion, and Tianbao Mountain Artillery Battalion;

②Shofu Mountain Artillery Battalion, ③Beigu Mountain Artillery Battalion, ④Hongshan Artillery Battalion, ⑤Yuhuatai Artillery Battalion;

The brigade has a total strength of about 5000 people, and currently has 38 large-caliber heavy artillery pieces and more than 100 medium-caliber artillery pieces;

[Nanjing Engineering Brigade (the brigade has five regiments)]

Brigadier Major General Kan Weiyong Deputy Brigadier Colonel Ma Chongliu

旅主要下辖：第1、第2、第3、第4、第5工兵团；

The total strength of the brigade is about 5000 (this is the number of regular engineers. In fact, the brigade also directly controls and commands all the migrant workers involved in the construction of fortifications in Nanjing City, and constantly recruits migrant workers to make up for the brigade. The military-civilian boundary in the brigade is very vague, so The number of people does not count).

Appendix: The Current Situation of the Japanese Army at the Breakout of the Battle of Nanjing

日本陆军在七七事变前共有17个师团，在七七事变后为适应战争需求，重建在“宇垣裁军”中被裁掉的第13、第15、第17、第18师团，同时以第1、第8、第9、第14师团的预备役兵力新建了第101、第108、第109、第114师团，另外把独立第11混成旅团扩建为第26师团，并且又在台湾组建一个旅团级的台籍日军支队，使日本陆军拥有的部队包括26个师团和1个支队，分别是：近卫师团、第1至第20师团、第26、第101、第108、第109、第114师团，以及台籍日军重藤支队。

In the Battle of Songhu, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army was wiped out (at the same time, the 1st Field Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army was also wiped out); after the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army expanded the size of the Taiwan Army, and the heavy rattan detachment was expanded into Taiwan's 1st Field Heavy Artillery Brigade. 2 mixed brigade, and at the same time build the 3nd mixed brigade in Taiwan, and build 3 independent infantry mixed brigades, 3 independent cavalry brigades in Northeast China, and build 28 new divisions mainly composed of Korean and Japanese soldiers in North Korea When the Battle of Nanjing broke out, the Japanese Army had a total of 8 divisions and 80 independent brigades. If the rest of the affiliated troops were included, the total strength of the Japanese Army was more than [-].

The distribution of the various units of the Japanese Army at this time (after the Battle of Songhu and before the Battle of Nanjing, a certain degree of mobilization):

There are 2 divisions in Japan: the Guards Division and the 1st Division;

1 division in the Japanese-occupied Korean area: the 19th Division;

中国东北地区（关东军）3个师团、3个独立混成旅团、3个独立骑兵旅团：第4、第8、第12师团，独立第1至第3混成旅团，独立第1至第3骑兵旅团；

North China (North China Front Army) 6 divisions:

Commander-in-Chief of the Front Army Toshiichi Terauchi

Lieutenant General Xiang Yueqing, the commander of the First Army, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 7th, and 26th Divisions;

Lieutenant General Nishio Hisao, Commander of the Second Army, under the jurisdiction of the 10th, 14th, and 20th Divisions;

East China (Central China Front Army) 16 divisions, 2 independent mixed brigades, 3 field heavy artillery brigades:

General Matsui Iwane, Commander-in-Chief of the Front Army

Lieutenant General Yanagawa Hirasuke, commander of the Third Army, under the jurisdiction of the 9th, 11th, and 13th Divisions;

Commander of the Fourth Army, Lieutenant General Hata Jun-liu, under the command of the 15th, 17th, and 18th Divisions;

Commander of the Fifth Army Lieutenant General Chao Xianggong Jiuyan Wang, the army has jurisdiction over the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and 16th divisions;

方面军直属部队：第108、第109、第114、第27、第28、第29师团，台湾第1、第2混成旅团，第2、第5、第6野战重炮兵旅团。

Note 1: The 27th, 28th, and 29th divisions are all newly established divisions with Korean Japanese soldiers as the main body at the grassroots level;

Note 2: The Central China Front Army is the largest among the five major overseas military groups of the Japanese Army (Kwantung Army, Korean Army, Taiwan Army, North China Army, and Central China Army). Because of the large number of troops and time-consuming transportation, not all troops broke out in the Battle of Nanjing When the assembly was completed, the Japanese army assembled a large number of heavy troops when they attacked Nanjing, and the follow-up troops arrived continuously to participate in the battle during the war. The above lists are the numbers of all the Japanese troops who joined the Central China Front Army; at the same time, the Central China Front Army also needs to stick to Shanghai and Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and other places between Nanjing and Nanjing, and it is necessary to send troops to guard against the Chinese army in the extension area of ​​Nanjing. As a result, not all troops can be used to attack Nanjing. In general, the Japanese army can invest a total of 40 troops to attack Nanjing.

Chapter 251 Fortified City (1)

At 12:1 am on December [-]st, Nanjing, Xiaguan Wharf on the south bank of the river and Pukou Station on the north bank of the river.

With sirens roaring, river waves blowing, north wind blowing, people's voices and cries shaking the sky, the last train and ship in Nanjing are about to leave Nanjing officially.

From this moment on, Nanjing is completely a military city, and it is about to usher in a battle where the mountains and rivers change color.

There are moving scenes on the pier and the station, and maybe the sky has also been infected. The first snow in Nanjing this year came a month earlier than usual, and it was sleet. Ice rain fell from the sky in the cold wind. The snow was flying all over the sky in the cold wind, which added a chilling and tragic atmosphere to Nanjing. The heart-piercing cries almost covered the mechanical roar of trains and ships, as well as the sound of wind, waves, rain and snow. Voice.

Most of the 20 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing have family members, and basically they will not stay in Nanjing with their families, so there are heartbreaking partings every day and night, husbands send away their wives and daughters, sons send away their parents, another On the one hand, the 20 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing are not all Nanjing locals, a large part of them are from other places. About half of the civilians are Nanjing locals, about half are from other areas in southern Jiangsu, and some are from northern Jiangsu or other provinces. There are all in the north, such as the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army, the Guangxi Army, and the Yunnan Army.

Local soldiers and civilians shed tears to bid farewell to their families, and non-local soldiers and civilians shed tears to bid farewell to their families.

Everyone understands that the farewell in Nanjing is basically a farewell to life and death. People who stay in Nanjing and those who leave Nanjing are basically separated by yin and yang, so they all cry.

The cries of tens of thousands of people gathered into a huge wave that overwhelming the sky.

John Rabe, a senior employee of the Chinese branch of Siemens AG and the head of the Nanjing branch of the German Nazi Party, wrote in his "Rabe Diary": "...the cries of Xiaguan Wharf and Pukou Station resounded throughout the city of Nanjing, but Not a cry of misery or pain, but a cry of tragedy and courage.

Tens of thousands of people cried together, deafening and soul-stirring, but in this thunderous cry, I couldn't hear grief, sadness, despair, fear, I only heard... It should be said, I felt this There is an incomparably angry and desperate force in the sound of crying.

It was a roar, not a roar or a shout, but a cry, and it completely shocked an outsider like me.

Even though I am German, my blood boils with excitement, and there are great images of humanity shining brightly everywhere.

A Chinese soldier handed one of his old clothes to his parents who were about to leave Nanjing, saying, 'My lord, my lord, I will definitely die in Nanjing, and there is a good chance that my body will not be transported. Leaving Nanjing, it is even more impossible to be sent to my hometown. After you go back, treat this dress as me and bury it in our family's ancestral grave! Tears welled up in his eyes, then he knelt down to his parents and said, "My dear father and mother, my son is not filial and cannot give you pensions until the end of his life. Please forgive me." He then kowtowed three times to his parents , his mother covered her mouth, sobbing and crying, and was speechless. Although his father was also in tears, he said very excitedly, "Son, do your best and beat the Japanese devils hard. I and I Your mother can have such an amazing son as you, and she will die without regret in this life, and our family has also produced a hero who will serve the country wholeheartedly. Soldiers, the two are husband and wife. The wife does not want to take her husband away, but to stay in Nanjing to accompany her husband. The husband held back his tears and said to his wife, "You want to stay, what will happen to the child in your belly?"For the sake of the child, you leave now!After I died in Nanjing, you remarried, I won’t blame you’, the wife said tearfully, ‘If you die, I’ll keep you a widow for the rest of your life’; … except for the trains and ships full of last-minute In addition to a group of people who left Nanjing, there were hundreds of thousands of suicide notes, relics, souvenirs and other things.

When the trains and ships departed, a large number of Chinese soldiers and civilians who stayed in Nanjing were crying and running desperately on the railways and on the banks of the river, as if they were trying to catch up with the trains or ships. The soldiers and civilians who left Nanjing on the trains and ships The family members stretched out their hands in tears like rain, and the windows of the train and the deck of the ship were full of arms stretched out densely.

What in the world is more spectacular and shocking than this scene? ..."

"Let's go!" Everyone was devastated when they parted, but Jiang Weiguo was very happy, because his father Chiang Kai-shek's death was not a bad thing. "In this way, he can't command blindly!" Jiang Weiguo thought very optimistically .

The first continuous and dull sound of artillery fire began to sound in the distance of Nanjing City.

In Zhenjiang, where nearly half of the urban area has been turned into ruins, one side of the sun flag, which has been wet in the rain and snow, flutters feebly with the cold wind. Among them, the largest side is flying over the front of a Jiangnan-style mansion that used to be the seat of the county government. above.

In the main hall of the mansion, General Matsui Iwane, Commander-in-Chief of the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army, Major General Ishihara Kanji, Chief of Staff of the Front Army, Lieutenant General Hirasuke Yanagawa, Commander of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Hata Toshiroku, Commander of the Fourth Army, and Commander of the Fifth Army Seven or eight senior generals of the front army, including Lieutenant General Chao Xianggong Hatohiko, were gathering together to hold a pre-war meeting.

"Nanjing has become a big castle under the painstaking efforts of the Chinese Army!" General Matsui's expression was mixed with excitement and gloomy. The excitement was because his dream had finally come true, and the attack on Nanjing was finally ushered in. Because he already knows that Nanjing is not a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch, and the next battle is destined to be an unparalleled fierce, bitter, and bloody battle. There is less arrogance, arrogance, and joy, and they are replaced by prudence, calmness, and calmness." Deputy Chief Tada (Lieutenant General Tada Hayao, Deputy Chief of Staff Headquarters) said that Nanjing is an "amplified Lushun". Although this statement is slightly biased, we The attack on Nanjing can indeed refer to the Battle of Lushun during the Russo-Japanese War. Therefore, we must try our best to concentrate our heavy weapon firepower, focusing on the army's heavy artillery and the navy's naval guns. As long as we suppress the Chinese army on artillery fire, Then it will be a matter of course for us to smash the solid shell of Nanjing with overwhelming shells!" The Japanese army in the Battle of Lushun was commanded by Nogi Nori in the early stage. In the later period, Kodama Gentaro was commanded by Kodama Gentaro. Kodama Gentaro abandoned the infantry crowd tactics and tried his best to concentrate the artillery of the Japanese army. The effect was immediate and immediate. It took only eight days and only paid more than 203 people. At the cost of casualties, he captured the commanding height of Lushun, Heights [-], and then quickly captured Lushun.

Matsui Iwane is an expert in fortified warfare. He has studied the classic fortress offensive and defensive battle of the Battle of Lushun countless times, so he naturally has a lot of experience.

"But the Chinese Army has also noticed this!" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro said, "The Chinese Army built five mountaintop artillery groups on five mountains around Nanjing City, especially Zijin Mountain, the highest commanding height in Nanjing. The most important thing is that the mountaintop artillery group of the Chinese army can not only bombard the imperial army condescendingly and take advantage of the geographical advantage, but also completely cover the range of ten kilometers, and the artillery of the Chinese army is hidden in the mountain, which has very good concealment and very Sturdy anti-strike, if the artillery groups of the enemy and the enemy launch a confrontation, their artillery groups may be unscathed, while the imperial army artillery groups are completely live targets.

The Sixth Division's last tentative attack was a bloody lesson!"

"Then let the air force carry out air strikes!" Lieutenant General Jiuyan said with a tense expression, "Use the overwhelming bombs to raze the five mountains to the ground!"

"Impossible!" Lieutenant General Hata Jun-liu shook his head, "China's Air Force aircraft are mainly fighter jets, and all of them are equipped with world-class fighter jets provided by the Germans. A China's BF-109 fighter jet can deal with it in air combat Three Imperial Army planes, if we dispatch a large-scale bomber fleet, the Chinese Army fighter jet fleet will cause us great losses, this method is not worth the candle!"

"Then bomb at night!" Lieutenant General Jiu Yan's face was full of murderous intent.

"It still doesn't work!" Lieutenant General Toshiro Hata shook his head again, "The Imperial Army Aviation Unit does not have the ability to carry out precision bombing at night.

We should ditch the planes and focus on artillery!"

"I think..." Lieutenant General Yanagawa said, "Let's rely on the navy! As long as the naval battleship reaches the river section near Nanjing, the 410mm main naval guns of the Nagato and Mutsu can completely raze the city of Nanjing to the ground. !"

"But the naval fleet is currently unable to reach the river section near Nanjing!" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro smiled wryly, "After the naval fleet enters the Yangtze River, it will reach Jiangyin at most, and it will not be able to advance any further.

Jiangyin has been completely blocked by the Chinese military using hundreds of sunken ships, thousands of mines, and tens of thousands of tons of stones. It will take a long time and a lot of manpower and material resources to re-drag Jiangyin's waterways; The Navy’s mine-laying units will continue to throw mines into the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Anqing and other upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and drift downstream to Jiangyin and other downstream waters. The torpedo boats of the Chinese Navy and the dive bombers of the Chinese Air Force will also cause great damage to the Imperial Navy fleet. Big threat!" He sighed, "You are also very clear that during the war in Shanghai, the navy made great efforts to aid our army and suffered great losses. Now the navy is complaining to us, and even hates us saying Our army has dragged them down, so the navy will certainly not be too active in aiding us during the Nanking campaign!"

"It's unreasonable! They are all imperial troops, how can they have their own ghosts?" Lieutenant General Yu Yan was furious, "Don't worry! I will ask His Majesty the Emperor to personally order the navy, and let the navy go all out to cooperate with our army! As for Jiangyin The dredging of the waterway is actually very simple!" He had a fierce look on his face, "Arrest hundreds of thousands of Chinese people and let them do it! If they can't do it, kill them all! I don't believe that they don't work hard! If there are too many Chinese people Like flies, will we still worry about not having a labor force when fighting in China?"

"The Imperial Army can use special bombs (gas bombs) on a large scale in the Nanjing War!" Lieutenant General Yanagawa said, "It will definitely have a great effect. As for the mountaintop artillery group of the Chinese Army, the Imperial Army can attack on a large scale at night. , to disperse the troops and attack from multiple directions, so that the artillery group on the top of the mountain loses sight of the other and is exhausted!"

"General Yanagawa, you have ignored the fortifications of the China Army!" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro said, "According to the reliable and detailed information obtained by the Imperial Intelligence Department, the Nanjing China Army is hardcore in spirit, and the quality of its soldiers is very high. , Almost all of them are veterans who have participated in actual combat, with tenacious will and excellent skills, and individual weapons are also very powerful and complete. Light machine guns, mortars, and grenades have been popularized in platoons and even squads.

If we attack at night, the outcome is still very unfavorable to the imperial army. If the imperial army attacks intensively, the artillery group of the Chinese army will definitely cover it with artillery fire. If the imperial army disperses the attack, the Chinese army can rely on its highly solid and perfect trench fortifications and bunker firepower points. In a head-to-head confrontation with the imperial army, the ratio of casualties between the two sides will almost certainly not be less than one to one, and if two or even three imperial troops are sacrificed to kill one Chinese army, the imperial army will naturally be greatly uneconomical!"

"Is it possible to use a small group of capable troops to carry out an infiltration raid?" Lieutenant General Yanagawa suggested again.

"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid this trick still doesn't have much effect!" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro sighed, "According to the reliable and detailed information obtained by the imperial intelligence department, the Nanjing Chinese Army Headquarters has implemented a very serious attack on the Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanjing City." Strict and very strict "Baojia system", the imperial army disguised as the Chinese army and Chinese refugees and mixed into the city were severely raided and attacked. There were not many left, basically it was difficult to form a climate, and only some secretly surrendered The Chinese (traitors) of the empire are still lurking and hiding in the city, but it is also difficult for them to do anything, because the Chinese soldiers and civilians around them are monitoring and reporting each other all the time, and any changes will be exposed immediately And was hunted down!"

"Could it be that the city of Nanjing is really invulnerable?" Lieutenant General Liu Chuan suddenly became irritable.

"Invulnerable?" Lieutenant General Jiuyan snorted heavily, "Even if Nanjing City is made of steel, the imperial army can still smash it into pieces!"

"Ishihara-kun..." General Matsui looked at Ishihara, who had not spoken, with a smile, "What's your opinion?"

Among the senior generals at the scene, General Matsui, Lieutenant General Yanagawa, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Wang and others strongly supported the invasion of Nanjing. Lieutenant General Ishihara Wanji and Lieutenant General Hata Toshi-[-] opposed the invasion of Nanjing. Lieutenant General Hata Toshi-[-] was reluctant to participate in the discussion. Ishihara Wanji kept silent and did not say a word, because he was disheartened, even disheartened. He originally hoped that the Japanese army would stop after taking Shanghai, but he did not expect that after taking Shanghai, he "really" attacked Nanjing. During the period, I went to General Sugiyama Moto, and somewhat angrily and suggestively accused the other party of "breaking promises and reneging on promises." General Sugiyama Moto said in a rage: "I planned to let you go home to retire! The reason why I let you continue Serving as the chief of staff of General Matsui is to remember your contribution in the Shanghai War and give you the opportunity to continue to serve the empire and be loyal to the emperor! If you are not satisfied, you can take off your military uniform now! I will send you double rewards Retirement allowance! How is it? Are you satisfied?"