I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Colonel, we are at war, we are fighting with the Japanese with our lives, but your attitude is like an animal lover who ran into a primeval forest to enjoy the two groups of animals fighting with relish!" Jiang Weiguo, who received Stilwell, was not cold Not hot authentic.

Jiang Weiguo now quite hates the Americans, hates their short-sightedness, their arrogance, their hypocrisy, and what he hates most is their sense of superiority.

A very typical example is a line in the later American movie "Pearl Harbor". The Japanese carrier-based aircraft fleet bombed Pearl Harbor indiscriminately. A supporting character called the male number two: "What happened?" The male number two said in a hurry : "I think the Second World War broke out!" This line is very interesting. The Pearl Harbor incident happened at the end of 1941. At that time, China and Japan had fought bloody battles for four and a half years. Germany officially started the war for nearly half a year, and half the world was swept by the flames of war. However, the Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Soviets, British... no matter how fiercely they fought, in the eyes of the vast majority of Americans represented by the male No. [-] In my heart, "It's not really World War II, because the United States has not yet joined the war", "The United States has been attacked, it is the real World War II."

Suddenly, the world is a big stage, the United States is the protagonist of the stage, and the rest of the countries are just supporting roles. No matter how hard the supporting actors perform, it is not the beginning until the protagonist appears.

Stilwell could hear the sarcasm in Jiang Weiguo's words, and looked a little embarrassed: "Second Master Jiang, I absolutely did not mean that. I am very sympathetic and respectful of your country's great and just war!"

"I hope your government can be like your Excellency!" Jiang Weiguo smiled, "The U.S. government will sell less arms to Japan, and we Chinese will be very grateful.

Come, Mr. Stilwell, welcome to Nanjing, on behalf of the Chinese army, I have a gift for you!" He beckoned, and Sun Tao behind him presented the gift that Jiang Weiguo had prepared for Stilwell, a fragment of a Japanese artillery shell with the words With "madeinusa".

Stilwell suddenly changed from being a little embarrassed to full of embarrassment.

Although Jiang Weiguo took the lead as soon as he came to Nanjing, Stilwell still visited the battlefield and the defense line positions of the Nanjing Army with great interest. He wrote in his diary that night: "... Chiang Kai-shek's youngest son Jiang Weiguo is A person with a very distinctive personality, when we met, he unceremoniously mocked me. The mockery was the government of the United States of America behind me. I heard that Jiang Weiguo was a staunch 'pro-German faction' in the national government, and he was indeed very different from his father. different.

…The Chinese army suffered heavy casualties from the Japanese army in Nanjing City. The big reason is that Nanjing City has extremely complete and extremely strong fortifications. There are many large-scale fortifications on Zijin Mountain. The most famous ones are Tianbao City and Bunker City. The two fortresses were all built by the Taiping army, and Zeng Guofan's Hunan army also took these two fortresses before attacking Nanjing.

At this time, Tianbao City is the heavy artillery group of Tianbao Mountain. It is built on the cliff and overlooks the whole city. It is one of the three heavy artillery groups in Zijin Mountain. It is very dangerous, controlling the Yaohua Gate and the fork in the northeast of Nanjing City, as well as the Qilin Gate and Shangfang Gate in the southeast.

There are two major fortresses in Nanjing City, Wulong Mountain Fortress and Dashengguan Fortress. At the same time, there are four fortresses. The Bunker City is one of them. The upper level is the shooting place, the middle level is the shelter and warehouse, the lower level is the inclined trapezoidal tunnel leading to the underground tunnel network, and the end is a huge basement, and there are basements under and outside the basement.

Jiang Weiguo ordered that all the trees on Zijin Mountain be cut down, so that a large amount of wood can be used. The top of the bunker city is covered with four or five layers of thick logs with a diameter of more than one meter, and the wood layer is covered with layers of tens of millimeters Thick steel plates, and soil over two meters thick on top of the steel plate layer. The ground outside the fortress is surrounded by large gasoline barrels filled with sand, gravel, and soil. They are arranged in three layers, with multiple layers of steel plates added between the barrels, and the outside of the barrels is filled with soil. Therefore, even if the fortress is hit by the Japanese 150mm heavy artillery shells, it is safe and sound, and the shock wave inside is also very weak; the three floors of the fortress are also supported by large logs, so the collapse of the upper floor does not affect the next floor at all; the fortress There are cobweb-like trenches, bunkers, trenches, and traffic trenches all over the outside, especially the densely packed cave-like air-raid shelters dug on the inner wall of the trenches, which are called "cat ear holes" by Chinese soldiers, and connect a large number of foxholes; It was almost hollowed out, like a super-large beehive and ant nest, with a network of tunnels extending in all directions, and all wires and water pipes are readily available.

…I have to be amazed by it. In order to defend their capital, the Chinese have indeed invested unimaginable sweat, painstaking efforts, and wisdom, and they have fully played their role and proved their value in actual combat.

Unless I am given [-] planes, [-] tanks, [-] cannons, and [-] troops, I will not be able to conquer this bunker city. You know, there are dozens of such large forts and fortresses in Nanjing City, and Small and medium-sized fortresses are blooming everywhere.

How unlucky the Japanese are! "

"According to reliable information, the Japanese army has forcibly arrested tens of thousands of Chinese civilians in Jiangyin and dredged the Jiangyin waterway for them!" In the Nanjing Garrison Command, Yi Shuihan worriedly reported to Tang Shengzhi, Xiao Shanling, Jiang Weiguo, Huang Wei and others, " Not only that, we also discovered that a large number of Japanese troops are digging multiple tunnels into Zijin Mountain in the outreach area of ​​Zijin Mountain!"

Including Jiang Weiguo, a cloud of haze shrouded everyone's faces.

"Once the Jiangyin waterway is dredged by the Japanese army..." Tang Shengzhi lit a cigarette with slightly trembling hands, "The Japanese battleships and heavy cruisers can sail to the waters of the river section near Nanjing. At that time, the Japanese naval guns will launch a salvo... "He shook his head and smiled wryly.

Jiang Weiguo's scalp is also numb. The power of naval guns is beyond the reach of land guns. For example, Nagato, the ship has 12 410mm main naval guns. One salvo is enough to blow up Zijin Mountain, not to mention the Japanese army Not only is Nagato a battleship, but its sister ship Mutsu also has 12 410mm main ship guns, plus other battleships and heavy cruisers, so hundreds of main ship guns are blasting head-to-head... No need Having said that, Zijin Mountain, Mufu Mountain, Beigu Mountain, Hongshan, and Yuhuatai Five Cannon Groups, as well as Wulong Mountain Fortress and Dashengguan Fortress must be the first target of the Japanese naval guns. These seven targets must fall apart, and then , the Japanese naval guns must have bombarded the main positions of the Nanjing Army. Ever since, the situation of "under fire" on the Nanjing battlefield was completely reversed. Originally, the Japanese army was bombarded by the Nanjing Army artillery. The guns of the warship blasted blood and blood.

"Is there any way to strengthen the Jiangyin Waterway?" Xiao Shanling said.

"No way!" Yi Shuihan shook his head, "Jiangyin is completely occupied by the Japanese army, we can't continue to fill rocks and sink ships there, and as for laying mines... it doesn't have much effect.

We put mines upstream, although the mines would drift downstream to Jiangyin and other places, but the Japanese army forced a large number of Chinese people to form a fleet of small boats to clear mines on the Yangtze River, and our mines killed a large number of Chinese people instead!"

"Then seal the river again in the area controlled by our army!" Tang Shengzhi said.

"It doesn't work either!" Yi Shuihan shook his head again, "Mr. Tang, the easternmost part of our army's control area is Longtan Town. To seal off the river in Longtan Town, first, we don't have the objective conditions. We don't have so many manpower and ships. , Shitou, the width of the Yangtze River in Longtan Town is also relatively large, and the current is also relatively fast. It is difficult to seal the river, and we lack the materials to seal the river. It will take a long time to seal the river. This is a big project; Except for the west side of the town, the other three sides are controlled by the Japanese army. How could the Japanese army sit back and watch us seal off the river? Third, Longtan Town is only 25 kilometers away from Nanjing City. Even if the Japanese battleship is blocked to the east of Longtan Town, it can still bombard accurately Nanjing City, 25 kilometers is completely within the range of the naval guns of the Nagato battleship!"

"Can we just sit and wait?" Tang Shengzhi was very anxious.

Jiang Weiguo comforted: "There must be a solution, let's think about it slowly!" He looked at Yi Shuihan, "How about the real way?"

Yi Shuihanhui reported: "The Japanese army is currently vigorously carrying out soil work in the [-]-degree fan-shaped area from the east to the south of Zijin Mountain. The starting point of tunnel excavation is [-] kilometers away from Zijin Mountain, avoiding the Zijin Mountain Cannon. Group and the nearby Yuhuatai artillery group, Hongshan artillery group, and Beigushan artillery group, and there are a large number of them, conservatively estimated to be more than fifty, extending radially towards Zijin Mountain!"

"Is the Japanese army arresting our civilians as laborers again?" Xiao Shanling asked angrily.

Yi Shuihan shook his head: "It doesn't seem to be. The civil engineering work is carried out by the Korean division that has just arrived on the Nanjing battlefield!"

Jiang Weiguo also lit a cigarette because his mood was getting heavier.

Jiang Weiguo remembered that the Battle of Songshan in history was like this. More than [-] Japanese troops defended the Songshan Highlands, and the inside of Songshan was dug by the Japanese army like a beehive and ant nest. The whole mountain was completely fortified. More than [-] national troops attacked for three months. It was won after launching ten full-scale attacks, and tunnel blasting was still used. This is also the source of inspiration for Jiang Weiguo to dig tunnels and bury explosives in the Shanghai Battle to blow up the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai.

Thinking of the Japanese army digging dozens of tunnels to the bottom of Zijin Mountain, planting dozens of piles of explosives and detonating them, Jiang Weiguo's scalp became numb again.

The Zijin Mountain is so big, of course it is impossible for the Japanese army to blow up the entire mountain, but dozens of piles of explosives can bloom all over the Nanjing Army's positions, blowing up the main positions one by one, and blowing up the entire defense line of the Nanjing Army's Zijin Mountain. Torn apart and scattered.

进攻南京的日军在十二月中下旬得到了3个师团、2个独立混成旅团的援兵，3个师团是在朝鲜境内（韩国境内）组建的以朝鲜籍（韩籍）日本兵为主体的第27、28、29师团（毕竟此时的朝鲜/韩国是日本本土的一部分），2个独立混成旅团则是以台湾籍日本兵为主体的台湾第1、第2混成旅团，总兵力约8万。

此时，华中方面军的日军已经达到16个师团（其中的第108、第109、第114师团并没有参加南京战役，负责控制上海和宁沪之间的占领区）、2个独立混成旅团、3个野战重炮兵旅团，总兵力高达44万，其中约有37万南京战场上（已死伤7万）。

The 27th, 28th, and 29th divisions are similar in organization to the regular divisions of the Japanese army. They also have 2 brigades, and each brigade has 2 regiments, but the divisions do not have cavalry regiments and artillery regiments directly under them. , there is only one engineering brigade and one supply brigade. The division commanders, brigade commanders, regimental commanders, and brigade commanders are all Japanese, and the division chiefs, brigade chiefs, and regiment chiefs are Koreans. The brigade has 4 squadrons under its jurisdiction. The squadron leader of the first squadron with the best equipment is Japanese, and the squadron leaders of the other three squadrons are Koreans, and there are Japanese consultants in the squadrons.

Needless to say, these three divisions were completely controlled by the Japanese, with about 2 men each.

It is also very worth mentioning that many historical materials in later generations of China claim that "the Korean Japanese soldiers in the Japanese army are more brutal than the purebred Japanese soldiers. How did they commit all kinds of crimes in the Nanjing Massacre?" We must admit that this statement In fact, the Koreans were wronged, because the first batch of Korean Japanese soldiers formally joined the Japanese army after training in December 1938, and the Nanjing Massacre had already ended at that time, and some Korean personnel (such as translators, logistics personnel) participated in the Nanjing Massacre, but there was no large-scale Korean Japanese army unit at the time of the Nanjing Massacre.

During the entire Anti-Japanese War, a total of more than 5 Korean Japanese soldiers were sent to the Chinese battlefield, and a total of about 1100 people died.

Of course, the Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality were not completely innocent. A large number of Japanese policemen of Korean nationality once worked as minions in Northeast China, and they were very cruel to Chinese civilians, but murder and rape were relatively rare.

According to rigorous historical data, it is true that Korean Japanese soldiers did not commit many crimes.

During the Battle of Songhu, the Taiwan Army was the size of a detachment and performed well. Therefore, it was regarded by the Japanese army as "a powerful force not inferior to the Japanese local soldiers", so it was expanded. However, due to Taiwan's small population and Taiwan's far larger North Korea is closer to mainland China, so the Taiwan Army has not been expanded on a large scale, but doubled, from a brigade-level detachment to two regular brigades. The 1st brigade is headed by Major General Shige Fujiki. The 2nd Brigade is headed by Major General Shigeichi Hada. Each brigade has about 1 troops and is equipped with a full set of Japanese style.

After the Korean army and the Taiwanese army arrived at the Nanjing battlefield, General Matsui sent the Korean army and the Taiwanese army to launch a strong attack on Yuhuatai and Longtan Town respectively in line with the idea of ​​"it's a mule or a horse, pull it out for a walk".

As a result, after tens of thousands of North Korean troops charged with the momentum of oxen and horses, they were hit head-on by the Yuhuatai Nanjing Army, and then fired by Zijinshan artillery group and Yuhuatai artillery group. More than 2000 people were killed and injured. Morale collapsed, and swarms of swarms scrambled to flee and turn around to escape; in contrast, the Taiwanese army attacked Longtan Town quite tenaciously, and insisted on attacking even if there were thousands of casualties when they were not ordered to retreat.

With a wave of General Matsui's hand, the three North Korean divisions were sent to dig tunnels, and the two Taiwan brigades were used as attacking troops to prepare for actual combat again.

The new Japanese troops who arrived at the Nanjing battlefield included a man who was not a high-ranking army major but was "quite well-known" in the Japanese army.

Masanobu Tsuji, Wanji Ishihara, and Ryuzo Sejima are collectively known as the "Showa Three Staff Advisers", and Masanobu Tsuji adores Wanji Ishihara very much, regards him as his "spiritual mentor", and learns from, imitates and even imitates Wanji Ishihara everywhere.

Tsuji Masanobu is not greedy for money, not lecherous, and does not gamble. He is very prestigious among the grassroots officers and soldiers of the Japanese army. He is also quite capable, but his character is crazy, cruel, and violent. Moreover, he is arrogant, arrogant and arrogant, from his immediate superior to the Minister of War and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Fleet.

Tsuji Masanobu was originally in the Kwantung Army. He heard that the "idol" Ishihara Wanji was in the Nanjing battlefield, and he also heard that the Japanese army suffered consecutive defeats on the Nanjing battlefield. In Nanjing, General Kenkichi Ueda, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army who had long been impatient with him, immediately approved with a swipe of a pen.

"Tsuji-kun, are you confused?" Tsuji Masanobu's good friend, Major Hattori Takushiro, who is also a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, was very puzzled by his behavior, "The imperial army fought so badly on the Nanjing battlefield, why did you run away? "

Tsuji Masanobu laughed: "Hatbu-kun, what you said is wrong! What's the point of fighting smoothly? Participating in the smooth battle is just a ready-made credit. It's the bitter fight that goes wrong, and it's us who are emerging. It is an ideal stage for making contributions and becoming famous in one battle! The more difficult the battle, the more challenging it will be!"

Masanobu Tsuji, who became a senior staff officer of the Central China Front Army, immediately traveled all over the Nanjing battlefield to conduct field investigations and study combat materials all night. The next day, he went to General Matsui with a "brilliant idea".

"What?" General Matsui found it difficult to accept it, "Secretary Tsuji, your method is too..."

Masanobu Tsuji said in amazement, "Isn't it better to die a few hundred people than tens of thousands?"

General Matsui thought over and over again, hesitating very much.

"The reason why the imperial army did not achieve breakthrough results on the Nanjing battlefield is because people like you, Your Excellency, have not truly and fully demonstrated the spirit of the imperial army's 'seven lives and seven generations, swear to die for the king'!" Throwing After saying these unkind words, Masanobu Tsuji threw up his sleeves and left.

"Good idea!" Lieutenant General Hatohiko King's eyes lit up immediately after hearing Masanobu Tsuji's idea.

Masanobu Tsuji was overjoyed, and he talked eloquently: "Your Highness, the reason why the imperial army is difficult to capture Nanjing City is that the artillery group on the top of the five mountains including Zijin Mountain is the greatest threat to the imperial army. After destroying them, the imperial army captured Nanjing. The city must get twice the result with half the effort.

As for how to destroy it, artillery bombardment will not work, and our artillery positions will be bombarded by the opponent instead. Methods such as digging tunnels are either inefficient or time-consuming and labor-intensive. Only aircraft bombing, but I have studied the bombing of Imperial Army aircraft, because aircraft The bombs are dropped while flying, so the bombs thrown are all in a parabola, and the falling points are not concentrated enough, so it is difficult to carry out concentrated strikes on the enemy's mountaintop artillery positions. Therefore, why not let the pilot directly drive the bomb-laden plane into How about going up?A bomber with several tons of bombs and tons of fuel exploded violently after hitting it. All the bomb fuel was concentrated at one point and exploded and burned. Isn’t it a concentrated and precise strike?One plane is definitely not enough, you can get dozens or hundreds of planes and hit them one after another!After hundreds of tons of bombs are concentrated and exploded at one point, even if the enemy's mountaintop artillery positions are hidden under the soil layer, they can still be blown up! "

"You're right! You're right!" Lieutenant General Jiuyan praised repeatedly, his face beaming with joy.

Masanobu Tsuji added triumphantly: "It is difficult for the imperial army planes to dispatch during the day, but they can be dispatched at night. Before the attack, the imperial army's ground troops launched a feint attack, attracting the enemy's artillery group on the top of the mountain to fire. Aircraft pinpointing targets in the dark!"

"Great! Really clever!" Lieutenant General Jiuyan Wang was overjoyed and praised.

Chapter 268 War City (8)

Jiang Weiguo had faintly felt uneasy and even ominous, and the Battle of Nanjing might not go so smoothly in the future.

On December 12th, countless Westerners in Europe and the United States celebrated Christmas while eating roast turkey, while reading newspaper articles about the "Sino-Japanese Battle of Nanjing" that have been occupying the headlines of news media around the world since December, Let out a burst of exclamation "that's terrible" or sigh a few times, shed a few tears of sympathy, and then go on eating turkey, going on being irrelevant and indifferent, and quickly forgetting about it because they have A comfortable, safe, and peaceful civilized life is waiting for them to enjoy. No matter how brutal and bloody the Battle of Nanjing, where hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese troops fought to the death, is just a piece of news to them, not more exciting than scandals about female celebrities. human eyeball.

To use an inappropriate analogy, the attitude of Westerners in Europe and the United States towards the Sino-Japanese War at this time is basically the same as the attitude of Chinese people in later generations towards the suicide bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It's fun to play, the countless lives and a lot of blood in foreign countries are just news that is forgotten after reading.

In the city of Nanjing, Jiang Weiguo, who smelled of gunpowder and sweat, was counting the results and losses of the battle. The results were very satisfactory. After 25 days and 25 nights of bloody battles, the Japanese army on the battlefield in Nanjing had a total of about 7.7 casualties (about 6000 The casualties were from the North Korean Army and the Taiwan Army), of which about 4.4 were killed or died of injuries, and the Nanjing Army had a total of 2.6 casualties, of which about 1.23 were killed or died of injuries; The total ratio is about 3 to 1, while the total ratio of enemy and friend deaths is about 3.4 to 1.

Undoubtedly, this is a very remarkable achievement, and the soldiers of the Nanjing Army are worthy of the great trust of the country and history.

However, the Japanese army has obviously given up the desperate and reckless assault tactics and began to adopt other tactics. On the one hand, the Japanese army is trying its best to dredge the Jiangyin waterway, and on the other hand, it is trying its best to dig tunnels. At the same time, there must be other conspiracies and tricks.

If you can't anticipate the enemy's opportunity and wait for the enemy to suddenly show his sword and suddenly use the long-planned killer, your side will definitely suffer a big loss.

Thinking of this, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help feeling uneasy.

After putting down the statistical report form in his hand, Jiang Weiguo pushed open the office door.

Liu Qihu, head of the Nanjing Station of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, has already been waiting outside the door: "Seat!"

Jiang Weiguo nodded: "Let's go!"

The two arrived at the Maritime Statistics Bureau somewhere in Nanjing within ten minutes.

This is a large ring-shaped courtyard, heavily guarded, with military police patrolling inside and outside with live ammunition. In the open space of the courtyard, there are two or three hundred soldiers sitting or standing sparsely. Obviously, these two or three hundred soldiers are Japanese prisoners of war, but they are not pure-bred Japanese soldiers, but Taiwanese Japanese soldiers.

In fact, this can be seen from the numbers alone. The Battle of Nanjing lasted for more than 20 days, and the Nanjing army captured less than 50 purebred Japanese prisoners. First, it is extremely difficult for the Japanese army to be captured alive. The officers and soldiers were too lazy to catch prisoners. They cleaned the battlefield and saw Japanese officers and soldiers. Except for those who were obviously dead (for example, their heads were missing, for example, they were shot in the head, for example, they were blown up by shells as if they had been dismembered). Dead or alive or comatose, it's all done with a bayonet.

Since there are so many Japanese prisoners at once, they are naturally Japanese soldiers from Taiwan. Only the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army will be merciful to the Japanese soldiers from Taiwan. If they find that they are unable to resist or are unconscious after being injured, they must ensure their own safety. All of them were carried back for treatment, so there were more than 200 people accumulated.

Although the Taiwanese army did not participate in the war for a long time, because the Taiwanese army was willing to work hard, and the Taiwanese Japanese soldiers were not native Japanese soldiers after all, no matter how many deaths they would not make General Matsui and others feel distressed, the two brigades of the Taiwanese army fought hard after participating in the war. It has been used in high-intensity warfare, with heavy casualties and many captured.

It is worth mentioning that dozens of these Japanese captives of the Taiwan Army were captured on the Shanghai battlefield, and they have been locked up in Nanjing.

Jiang Weiguo looked at these Taiwanese prisoners of Japanese soldiers. They had different expressions. Some were numb, some were dazed, some were frightened, some were timid, and some were full of resentment and resentment. revealing expression.

Standing in front of the captives, Jiang Weiguo felt very emotional, because he and these captives were obviously compatriots of the same country, but both sides became enemies who wanted to kill each other on the battlefield. Excruciating.

If it was a civil war, it would be justified, but these captives in front of them are serving foreign countries and races.

Jiang Weiguo looked at the captives, calmed down, and began to speak, his voice was very low:

"My name is Jiang Weiguo. I am from mainland China, and you are from Taiwan. Originally, we are all compatriots in the same country, but now I have to speak to you through an interpreter. How sad!" Jiang Weiguo sighed and looked around with a wry smile. Liu Fengling, who is proficient in German, Japanese, and English, served as Jiang Weiguo's special translator.

The captives basically looked at Jiang Weiguo indifferently, their eyes were full of contempt and disdain, and there was even a sneer on their faces, because they did not accept the so-called "blood is thicker than water" theory at all.

Although the "imperial education" implemented by the Japanese in Taiwan is essentially ideological brainwashing, the means are very clever and ingenious. It is by no means a theory full of flaws. The Taiwanese "speak convincingly", and the Japanese's logic is roughly three points:

First, Taiwan was ceded to Japan by the Manchu Qing government and recognized by the Nationalist government. The people of Taiwan hardly received any support from the mainland in their heroic struggle against Japan. Abandoned, since the mainland can abandon Taiwan, why can't Taiwan abandon the mainland?Since mainlanders do not regard Taiwanese as compatriots, why do Taiwanese have any reason to treat mainlanders as compatriots?

Second, Japan is the new home of Taiwan. The Japanese people will treat the people of Taiwan as compatriots, and the Japanese government will treat Taiwan as the same as other places in Japan. Taiwan will have a new life in this new home of Japan. The Japanese government will build Taiwan into a prosperous and prosperous country. , will allow the people of Taiwan to live a prosperous life with ample food and clothing;