I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Yu Youhan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Second Young Master, I don't want money, what use is money in Nanjing at this time?"

"Go shopping!" Jiang Weiguo is also very straightforward, "Eat, drink, wear, and use are all rationed during the military control period, but there is no such thing!" He was in a good mood, so he opened up indecently joke.

Yu Youhan said with a bitter face: "Second Young Master, if you really want to reward me, let me join the Nanjing Army! I want to be a real soldier!"

"It's a small matter!" Jiang Weiguo nodded, "No problem, besides, the five hundred oceans are still yours!" He looked at Liu Ruiheng and said with a smile, "Mr. Liu, it's hard for you, but you actually saved this guy up!"

Liu Ruiheng didn't seem to take it seriously: "He didn't have any serious injuries. The punctured legs and feet were only flesh wounds. The wooden stick in the abdomen didn't break his intestines. The main reason was that he lost too much blood!" He snorted, "In order to save such a Japanese Bastard, wasting so much precious blood plasma and medicine, and wasted eight hours of my precious time, with so much blood plasma, medicine, and time, I can at least save three wounded soldiers of our own national army!"

"Mr. Liu, you can't say that!" Jiang Weiguo laughed, "This guy is still very valuable!"

"Value?" Liu Ruiheng asked Jiang Weiguo puzzled, "What value can it have? Does he have any great use?"

Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette: "What's the purpose of this guy? I'm thinking about it too!"

Chapter 259 Fortified City (9)

On December 12, the Japanese army once again launched a full-scale attack on Nanjing City aimed at breaking the city.

It was still the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the collision of steel and flesh, and the bloody rain that surrounded the whole city like clouds and fog. However, the bloody rain that day was mixed with poisonous clouds and fog that symbolized the storm of death.

The siege Japanese army finally used the "special bomb" that admitted that it could not win with conventional tactics, that is, the poison gas bomb.

More than 200 Japanese artillery pieces together launched a three-to-ten-minute fire attack on Longtan Town, pouring down a total of more than 10 shells, more than half of which were poison gas shells transported from outside the pass, covering the national army positions in Longtan Town in an instant. In a deadly yellow-green sea of ​​clouds and mists.

"Damn Yankee!" Zheng Dongguo gritted his teeth and held a piece of Japanese artillery shell fragments handed to him by his subordinates. It was clearly marked with a row of "madeinusa" in English.

"Damn the Germans!" At the same time, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, the commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, was also in a bad mood because his subordinates had just handed him a fragment of a Nanjing Army shell, which was clearly marked with a row of German words. "Hergestelltindeutschland (Made in Germany)", "On the one hand, it hypocritically mediates the war between Japan and China, on the other hand, it resells arms to the Chinese! Hitler is simply hypocritical! Shameless! What does he think of Japan?"

The shell fragment in Lieutenant General Itagaki's hand is a small part of a German-made poison gas shell.

In the face of the poisonous gas shells fired by the Japanese army, the Nanjing army had no fear, and immediately confronted the Japanese army with tit for tat, attacking the Japanese army with poisonous gas shells.

Among the poisonous clouds and fog, the Japanese army wearing gas masks and the Nanjing army also wearing gas masks repeated the previous fight, but it was more cruel and deadly. Due to the influence of poisonous gas and gas masks, the visibility was not high. A large part of the battle The process was all hand-to-hand combat. Officers and soldiers from both sides fought desperately in the poison gas. The mortality rate was extremely high, and there were very few wounded.

Some Nanjing army officers and soldiers who were blinded by the poisonous gas directly held grenades or explosives, relying on their ears to listen to the voice or the guidance of their comrades with tears, and charged towards the Japanese crowd with roars.

The "Chinese Heroes" published a photo of the battlefield that day: In the trench, a soldier who lost one hand tightly held a soldier who was blinded by Japanese poison gas with his remaining hand. With a bundle of grenades, ready to launch a death squad attack together.

The text accompanying the photo is: Brother, I am your eyes.

This tragic "poison gas war" lasted a whole day. Both sides used hundreds of tons of chemical poisons. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the casualties of the Japanese army were more than twice that of the Nanjing army.

After this day, the number of casualties in the Japanese army officially exceeded 4, of which more than 500 were killed in battle, and those who died of serious injuries reached more than [-]. About [-] people.

On the position where the military flags were flying, the blood-stained officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army cheered and chanted heartily. At the end of the gunpowder, the Japanese army, which left a large number of corpses and wounded soldiers, returned home again.

"As the saying goes, 'one effort, then decline, and three exhaustions'!" Major General Tsukada Gong, the deputy chief of staff of the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army, wrote in his combat diary that day, "Although the high-level officials are psychologically prepared, it is estimated that Nanjing City will be more difficult and It will take time and effort to win, but the soldiers at the grassroots level have inevitably begun to feel a sense of anxiety after the nearly ten days of storming have yielded nothing and resulted in huge casualties.

The soldiers were not war-weary, withdrawn, or timid, just impatient.

The soldiers were very eager to take down Nanjing City and then take a good rest, but Nanjing City was always impenetrable, which made people deeply anxious.

It must be admitted that the Chinese garrison in Nanjing City is indeed worthy of Chiang Kai-shek's highest trust in them. They are extremely tenacious, extremely fierce, and very fearless. engaged in an arduous struggle.

In fact, it would take a few months and cost 10,000+ casualties. The empire could take Nanjing, and the empire could afford it. However, the empire could only settle the "China Incident" quickly. It cannot be dragged on. The United States, Britain, France, Soviet Germany and other countries are all sitting on the hills and watching the tigers fight, and they may fish in troubled waters or even take advantage of the fire.

This war is different from the Russo-Japanese War. At that time, the United States and Britain supported Japan (during the Russo-Japanese War, the United States and Britain strongly supported Japan to fight against Russia, and Britain also signed an Anglo-Japanese alliance with Japan), but now it is not what it used to be up.

Overall, the Battle of Nanjing is a very disturbing battle that is difficult to win quickly but must be won quickly!"

"The defense project of Nanjing City is almost impeccable! When I learned that Jiang Weiguo started to build Nanjing's city defense fortifications half a year ago, I was completely surprised! This Jiang Weiguo is too simple! Doihara-kun (Doihara Kenji) is really dereliction of duty Yes! The imperial intelligence department is simply a bunch of idiots! They didn’t monitor Jiang Weiguo as the highest-level target!” Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki, head of the 5th Division, said to his subordinates in private.

Zhenjiang, the headquarters of the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army.

The atmosphere in the headquarters was so dignified that it was like a memorial service. The senior generals attending the meeting all had gloomy expressions like the family members of the deceased. In fact, there was indeed a funeral near the headquarters, and it was a super-large collective funeral.

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers were sweating profusely on several open fields the size of football fields. The pit, the fire was raging and black smoke billowed in the pit, a large number of corpses were burning inside, and more corpses were thrown in one after another, scorched, burnt, and incinerated. Clothes and hair were burned to ashes, and human faces were burned in the flames. Distorted and deformed like rubber, the fingers of the human hand curled up in the high temperature, the human skin was scorched, and the human flesh was burnt out of human oil, finally revealing the ceramic-like bones baked in the porcelain kiln, the air is full of pungent stench.

"My lords..." General Matsui said with difficulty in the still water-like silence, "The strong attack in the past ten days has proved that not only is it difficult to conquer Nanjing by means of a strong attack, but it is also destined to cost the imperial army a huge It took too long. In addition, after the special bombs were put into use, the effect was not satisfactory. The Chinese Army also had a large number of special bombs and prepared enough gas masks.

No matter whether this battle pays too much price or takes too long, it will be very unfavorable to the empire. The international situation will change at any time.

Gentlemen, the war in Nanjing cannot continue like this, we must find another way!"

Major General Tsukada Gong said bitterly: "If you want to win quickly and avoid too many casualties, please forgive me, this is simply impossible.

It is certain that this battle will be a repeat of the Battle of Lushun!"

"The Battle of Lushun?" Lieutenant General Jiuyan said with a gloomy expression, "Your gentlemen have always compared Nanjing to Lushun, but I want to remind you! There were two Battles of Lushun, the second was the Battle of Lushun between Japan and Russia, and the first was the Battle of Lushun." In the Battle of Lushun in the Nissin period, the imperial army did fight terribly in the second battle, but in the first battle, the imperial army almost won without a fight! Two battles took place in the same place, but the results were quite different, as in Lushun Nanjing is not impossible!" During the Sino-Japanese War, when the Japanese army attacked Lushun, Qing army defenders Gong Zhaoyu, Huang Shilin, Zhao Huaiye, Wei Rucheng and others swarmed and fled, making it only took one day for the Japanese army to attack Lushun with less than 100 casualties. After Li Hongzhang has been in business for 20 years and the construction cost is as high as 2000 million taels of silver, when the war broke out, there were more than 18 Qing troops stationed and equipped with 41 heavy artillery, 19 light artillery, and [-] machine guns. "Lvshun, the small price and the smooth process are unbelievable.

It is worth mentioning that after this battle, Xu Bangdao, the general of Lushun, commanded a counterattack against Tuchengzi. This counterattack was called "the first major victory of the Qing army after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War". In "A Major Victory", 11 Japanese troops were killed and 35 wounded (in this Tuchengzi counterattack, 5000 Qing soldiers ambushed a cavalry search team and an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, killing and wounding a total of 46 Japanese troops.

It can be said that the performance of the Qing army during the Sino-Japanese War was incompetent. Many so-called heroic and indomitable battles were actually so incompetent that they were almost jokes. More than 2300 people were killed, injured, and captured by the Qing army, while the Japanese army only paid a so-called "heavy price" of less than 400 casualties when they captured Niuzhuang; as for the "laughing" combat performance of the Qing army when they fought against the Western army , is too numerous to enumerate, and the incompetence is simply a national humiliation.

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Hearing Lieutenant General Jiuyan's words, the rest of the senior generals attending the meeting were silent, expressing their dissatisfaction and even disdain in silence.

Lieutenant General Jiuyan King is a member of the royal family, with a noble status, even if he made a major mistake, the rest would not dare to criticize him.

General Matsui coughed twice, avoided King Jiuyan's words, and continued to ask: "Masters, please let us brainstorm and work together to see if there is any other way to break through Nanjing!"

"Capture the thief first and capture the king!" Lieutenant General Banyuan's face was tense, "Both Chiang Kai-shek and Jiang Weiguo are in Nanjing City, it is best to send spies to get rid of his father and son! As long as they succeed, it is the most basic thing for Nanjing soldiers to be in chaos. The national government has collapsed!"

"General Doihara has been notified of this point!" General Matsui nodded, "But you can't pin all your hopes of victory on this point!"

Lieutenant General Hata Jun-liu said sullenly: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, you are a famous expert in tough battles, and I believe you are very clear about the importance of heavy firepower in tough battles.

The Nanjing Army was well prepared and well prepared. Their trenches had a strong ability to resist shelling and bombing. Their population, equipment, and supplies in the city were all transferred underground. Our existing heavy artillery alone was really stretched.

As for the bombers of the aviation unit, we can't have too much hope. First, the bombers can't do anything to the enemy soldiers and civilians in Nanjing. Second, the loss rate after the bomber formation is dispatched is too high. It is the navy's battle fleet that can be pinned on.

In my opinion, we should resolutely give up attacking Nanjing in the future, while besieging the city and sending enough people to dredge the Jiangyin Waterway!"

"Tunnels should be dug!" Lieutenant General Yanagawa sullenly said, "Just like what the Chinese Army did in Shanghai! Dig a tunnel, plant a large amount of explosives, and blow up the defense lines of the Chinese Army! Blow up all the important strongholds of the Chinese Army. Gentlemen, I think this is the most trouble-free and labor-saving way at present!"

"But it doesn't save time!" Major General Tsukada Gong said helplessly, "General Yanagawa, Nanjing City is huge, if we only dig one tunnel, once we are discovered, all previous efforts will be wasted. If we dig several tunnels, it will definitely consume too much Time and manpower, and we can’t dig too close, we need to be farther away from Nanjing City, if calculated in this way, the time and manpower consumed will be greatly increased!”

"There is one more troublesome thing!" Lieutenant General Hata Jun-[-] has obviously considered this method, "Nanjing is located on the banks of the Yangtze River, surrounded by dense river networks, vast water areas, and abundant groundwater. If you dig five meters at most, there will be a lot of water in the soil. Groundwater is about to emerge!"

"How did that Chinese army dig out so many tunnels, tunnels, tunnels, air-raid shelters, and basements?" Lieutenant General Liu Chuan was furious.

Major General Tsukada Gong took out a stack of intelligence materials: "Because the Chinese Army started this work half a year ago, using 10,000+ people successively, they used a lot of wood, tunnels, tunnels, air-raid shelters, and basements. Steel bars, bricks, concrete and other materials are used to reinforce and prevent water seepage.

General Yanagawa, we don't have that much time! "

"Increasing manpower can reduce time!" Lieutenant General Liu Chuan said with a murderous look, "Catch Chinese civilians everywhere and force them to serve the imperial army.

I don't believe it, if 30 Chinese civilians dig tunnels for us, wouldn't the completion of the project be just around the corner? "

"Isn't such a big movement the same as telling the Chinese army in Nanjing that we are digging tunnels?" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro laughed.

"Ishihara-kun?" General Matsui looked at Ishihara who was silent as usual and smiled.

Ishihara smiled and said indifferently: "If a large number of troops can be airlifted into Nanjing City in a one-off and concentrated manner, the deadlock in Nanjing will definitely be broken in one fell swoop. It's a pity that the Imperial Army does not have such airborne troops!"

"Talking nonsense!" Lieutenant General Jiuyan snorted coldly.

"It's better to talk nonsense than to talk nonsense!" Ishihara countered with a smile.

Lieutenant General Jiuyan was furious. At this moment, another silent person among the participants said, "Actually, the bombers of the imperial army still have a way to bomb Nanjing!"

"Okamura-kun?" General Matsui and the others looked in amazement at Lieutenant General Ningji Okamura who insisted on returning from his injuries.

Lieutenant General Okamura said: "Gentlemen, I specifically asked General Tokugawa of the Army Air Corps and others, and they all said there was no way, so I asked my colleagues in the Navy. The Director of the Navy's Military Affairs Bureau, Narumi Inoue, told me that the Navy bomber It has the ability to bomb at night, because the army aircraft needs to rely on the map terrain for navigation, while the navigation of the navy aircraft uses a nautical sextant locator, which does not need the map terrain, but only needs the azimuth angle of the sun or the stars and the moon.

So, take the navy's approach, and the army's bombers can accurately bomb Nanjing at night in the future!" (In the original history, Inoue Narumi was the inventor of this night-time precision bombing tactic, which was known as "transoceanic violence" hit".

Narumi Inoue is a staunch anti-war faction in the Japanese navy and military, but his hands are also stained with blood, because he used this method to carry out 218 night-time precision bombings of Chongqing, killing and injuring countless Chinese civilians .

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"That's great!" General Matsui and the others nodded repeatedly, and a gleam of joy appeared on their gloomy faces.

Because the Chinese Air Force's fighter jets are so brave, it is difficult for Japanese aircraft to bomb Nanjing during the day, and if it is launched at night, it is impossible to carry out precise bombing. Now, with the navy's solution, this problem is easily solved.

The Japanese army and navy have always been at odds. Naturally, if the Japanese navy has any "good things", it will definitely not take the initiative to share it with the Japanese army unless the army actively requests it.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, gentlemen!" Lieutenant General Okamura said calmly and dignifiedly, "I have repeatedly studied the situation in Nanjing, and I can confirm that Zijin Mountain is the most important, core, and fundamental stronghold of the Nanjing Army. If Zijin Mountain can be captured, Nanjing City will surely be doomed.

Therefore, I think the focus of the attack should be on the Zijin Mountain, and we can devote all our military resources to it, at all costs and with a targeted target!"

"Mr. Okamura, don't tell me you already have a draft?" General Matsui was overjoyed.

Lieutenant General Okamura looked at General Matsui and nodded slightly: "Yes, I have a solution.

Although I dare not say that it is sure, it is still worth a try!"

"What about the tunnel?" Lieutenant General Liu Chuan was unwilling to give up his proposal, "Aren't you going to dig it?"

"Of course we have to dig!" Lieutenant General Okamura said seriously, "We have to dig tunnels because there are three purposes, or we should dig tunnels for three purposes.

The first type is loaded with explosives for blasting, the second type is used to smuggle troops, mainly to dig into the underground of Nanjing City, and strive to send a regiment into the city at one time, to cooperate with the main force outside, and to cooperate from inside to outside; as for the third This kind... is the most important, but it is also more difficult!"

"Okamura-kun, please speak up!" General Matsui asked very modestly.

Lieutenant General Okamura said: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, gentlemen, the enemy army has dug a large number of tunnels underground inside and outside Nanjing City. If we can quietly dig a tunnel leading to a certain point in their tunnel network Wouldn't it be possible to have a great destructive effect by bringing a few capable small-scale assault troops into their tunnel network? First, it can very effectively prevent the enemy from using the tunnel network to resist. Second, you can find Their important implementation places such as ammunition depots and grain depots were destroyed in one fell swoop.

It's just that we need the enemy's tunnel network design drawings, otherwise, we can't dig every inch of soil inside and outside Nanjing like earthworms!"

"I will contact General Doihara!" General Matsui nodded.

"Let the North Korean division dig the tunnels, which can not only obtain a large amount of labor, but also prevent leaks!" Lieutenant General Okamura finally added, "And you can cast doubts, such as digging fifty tunnels on the bright side, but in fact there are only [-] tunnels. Article [-] is really digging!"

"It makes sense, it makes sense!" General Matsui nodded again and again. He regained some confidence and his eyes became brighter. Let’s continue to work together to achieve the final victory!”

Chapter 260 Fortified City (10)

The Battle of Nanjing has lasted for ten days. The Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the outer defense line of Nanjing City for ten days and a total of more than ten games. The losses were huge, with a total of more than [-] casualties, but the progress was stagnant and almost no valuable results were obtained. The Japanese army failed to break through any of the three main extended positions of Nanjing City, Pukou District, Longtan Town, and Tangshan Town.

Beginning on December 12, the battlefield in Nanjing has been eerily calm. Except for the tentative attacks and harassment of a small group of troops, the Japanese army did not launch a large-scale storm. The sound of guns and guns continued for ten days and nights The sound of explosions, explosions, and shouts of killing suddenly calmed down.

The senior commanders of the Nanjing Army knew in their hearts that the Japanese army had suffered a great loss and had given up on a simple storm. There is no doubt that the Japanese army would find another way and continue to attack the city by other methods.

In addition to this kind of thinking, a more or less sense of worrying about gain and loss also appeared in the hearts of senior generals such as Tang Shengzhi, Xiao Shanling, Huang Wei, Song Xilian, and Li Yutang. Silence often contains greater danger, which indicates more intense battles. What kind of conspiracy the opponent may be brewing, but I still don't know it. Not only that, the silence on the battlefield is equivalent to alcohol, which will make people's nerves tense be paralyzed.

"Increase the dispatch frequency of special forces and scouts, and strengthen reconnaissance! And the intelligence network of the Maritime Bureau, let me spread it. By the way, there is also the Air Force. Let our air force masters dispatch reconnaissance planes... No reconnaissance planes? Then send out fighter jets to serve as a cameo reconnaissance plane! Anyway, let me find out what the devil is doing and what the devil is up to!" Jiang Weiguo ordered in an orderly manner after receiving the report, "I don't want to be fooled by the devil!"