I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Jiang Weiguo was stiff and motionless, and Yang Mei was also stiff and motionless.

Jiang Weiguo, who was awakened by Sun Tao's yelling, lowered his head tremblingly. He saw a crossbow arrow as long as a chopstick hit his waist and pierced something in his waist. thick notebook.

Jiang Weiguo carried two thick notebooks with him, one recorded the list of his troops killed in action, and the other recorded the list of his troops who were injured and disabled and returned home.

The crossbow shot through the first notebook, which was very thick, and the arrow almost pierced through the notebook and pierced into Jiang Weiguo's waist muscles. After being pulled out, the poisoned arrow shone with a faint turquoise luster in the beam of light from the flashlight.

"My day..." Jiang Weiguo broke out in a cold sweat.

Seeing that Jiang Weiguo didn't hit the arrow, Yangmei let out a long sigh of relief, but her expression became painful, and she almost fell down. Jiang Weiguo felt something was wrong while holding her, he touched Yangmei's thigh and touched the blood on his hand.

"Doctor! Call the doctor!" Jiang Weiguo shouted hoarsely.

Half an hour later, on Zijin Mountain, Jiang Weiguo was in his own office in the 77th Division.

Jiang Weiguo sat on a chair with his head bowed and a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He was very depressed because he was immersed in extreme pain.

Sun Tao stood opposite Jiang Weiguo, reporting with the same painful expression: "A total of eight assassins were killed, and our side lost 35 brothers, 22 were from the guards, and 13 were from our guard company. Among them, 32 were killed. The three of them were in the rescue, because the bullets and crossbow bolts used by the assassins were highly poisonous, and the fatality rate was very high. The old man... died on the spot, Duoduo was seriously injured, and a veterinarian has been arranged for treatment. Chairman... .was also poisoned, seriously injured, the second sister-in-law...is fine, but..." He had a dark face, "A miscarriage!"

Jiang Weiguo exhaled a puff of smoke and said in a low voice, "Got it!"

Sun Tao hurriedly said: "Second sister-in-law said that there are not only eight assassins, but one more.

There were six in Europe at the time, but three in Asia!But we couldn't find the ninth assassin after repeated searches.

I searched all over Wuzhou, Xuanwu Lake was also blocked, but I couldn’t find it!”

"Because that person is a spy!" Xiao Yao, who was also in the office, said, "The eight people who were killed were all assassin agents, and the ninth person was a spy disguised as our own!" He put his hand on Jiang Weiguo's shoulder , silently expressing his comfort.

"Who is this person?" Jiang Weiguo asked angrily.

Sun Tao reported: "At that time, all the people on Wuzhou, except for the guards, members of the guard company, the chairman, wife, brother Wei, and the second sister-in-law, there were only six people. Yuan Hongwei, editor and reporter of China Heroes, Guo Sumei, wife's adjutant, Yang Zijing, wife's assistant, Fang Bingbing, reporter of China Heroes..." He stammered, "Fourth sister-in-law (Liu Wugou)! He added, "I've already asked these six people. Yi Shuihan said that he asked you to report on military affairs. Yuan Hongwei said that he came to discuss with his fourth sister-in-law about publishing the manuscript tomorrow. Adjutant Guo and Assistant Yang said they At that time, I was accompanying my wife, Fang Bingbing said that she couldn't find the fourth sister-in-law in the newspaper office, so she came to look for the fourth sister-in-law. He didn't cooperate with me very much, didn't answer my questions, and told me to leave!" He had no choice but to do anything if Liu Wugou didn't cooperate with him.

"Understood!" Jiang Weiguo nodded, feeling confused.

"Secretary seat!" Liu Qihu hurried over, his face was very ugly, "The latest information from Jiangyin, the Japanese army has just successfully dredged the waterway in Jiangyin!"

Chapter 279 Chaos City (9)

Japan, Nagoya, Sunday, January [-], [-].

Horikoshi Jiro walked out of the dormitory and locked the door, then walked absent-mindedly to the lawn at the door. His mind was full of complicated thoughts, which made him restless and restless for several months.

As the chief aeronautical engineer of Mitsubishi Corporation, Jiro Horikoshi felt that the burden was heavy. In desperation and helplessness, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he was called to the office by his supervisor Hattori three months ago.

"Horikoshi-kun, there is a very important and urgent task for you and your team!" Section Chief Hattori looked solemn, and there was even a hint of uneasiness in his tone.

"Section Chief, please tell me!" Horikoshi Jiro was shocked.

Section Chief Hattori took out a piece of information and said rather bitterly: "The Imperial Army has issued an order plan to our Mitsubishi Corporation and our competitor Nakajima Corporation, requesting the development of a new type of powerful fighter.

You see, this is the imperial military's request for a new aircraft!" He handed over the document in his hand.

Jiro Horikoshi took it over and took a look, and immediately understood why Section Chief Hattori looked bitter, because the first requirement on the document was "This new aircraft must be able to defeat the German bf-109 equipped by the China Air Force in a one-on-one air battle." For fighter jets, the overall performance must surpass that of the bf-109. As for the following requirements, each item is almost unbelievable, whether it is speed, range, firepower, dive, bomb carrying, etc., are about 109% higher than the bf-10.

For example, the maximum speed of the bf-109 is 686 kilometers per hour, and the Japanese military requires the maximum speed of the new aircraft to reach 720 kilometers per hour (for comparison, the maximum speed of the Zero aircraft is 533 kilometers per hour).

After reading it, Horikoshi Jiro couldn't help but also wryly smiled: "The Imperial Army wants the best fighter jet in the world!" (Compared with the bf-109, the zero-type only has an absolute advantage in range, more than 3300 The kilometers far exceed the 109 kilometers of the bf-700, and the rest of the performance is not as good as the bf-109. After all, the bf-109 is a land-based aircraft, and the Zero is an aircraft carrier-based aircraft used by the navy. The focus of design is different.

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Section Chief Hattori sighed: "Horikoshi-kun, I believe you also know the current predicament of the Imperial Army on the China battlefield, and the biggest problem is the plane.

The Chinese Air Force is equipped with German bf-109s in large quantities. The comprehensive performance of this fighter is perfect, and it has been used by the pilots of the Chinese Air Force with proficiency. His bf-109 has shot down and destroyed more than 70 imperial aircraft, more than 70!Horikoshi-kun, this is a disgrace to the aerospace researchers of our empire!The planes we developed for the Imperial Army were far inferior to those of the enemy, causing the Imperial Army's air force to be beaten to shame by the weak Chinese Army in air battles!We must develop more powerful aircraft! "

Horikoshi Jiro was silent for a while, and said with difficulty: "Section Chief, please forgive me, the level of aviation research in the Empire is still far behind that of the Western powers, and the bf-109 is the strongest fighter in the world at this time. We want to develop an aircraft that completely surpasses it, and the difficulty is...very big!"

"The military fully supports us!" Section Chief Hattori said in a calm and authentic tone, "General Sugiyama Moto said, what we need, he will give us double satisfaction!" Sugiyama Moto is the Minister of the Japanese Army. His contribution is to attach great importance to the construction and development of aviation. With his efforts, the Japanese Army Aviation is known as a very effective combat force, and he is therefore known as "Japan Army Aviation No. 1".

"If manpower, material resources, and financial resources are satisfied, then we still need time!" Horikoshi Jiro frowned, "This kind of thing is more haste than speed, we need at least..."

"One year!" Hattori Section Chief said in an unquestionable tone, "The military can give us everything, except time! The military requires us to develop this new aircraft within one year!"

Jiro Horikoshi smiled wryly again: "It's too tight! I originally planned to take three years!"

The section chief of the service department shook his head: "It is impossible for the military to give us such a long time.

The military believes that the main reason why the imperial army is not progressing smoothly on the China battlefield is that the imperial army cannot give full play to its aviation superiority and cannot use large-scale bomber fleets to launch violent air strikes on important targets of the China army. In the first step, the fighter jets currently equipped by the Imperial Army are almost completely no match for the bf-109.

In addition, not only the army supports us in this matter, but the navy also supports us, and the army and navy of the empire fully support us.

Horikoshi-kun, the imperial military urgently needs this new type of fighter jet that surpasses the bf-109. One is to solve the dilemma of the imperial army on the battlefield in China, and the other is to deal with the war threats that the imperial army may face in the future from the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other western powers. .

Horikoshi-kun, this is a request from the military, even an order, you and your team must complete it! "

Horikoshi Jiro smiled wryly, and he sighed helplessly in his heart: "Those guys in the army are simply idiots! Do they think that technological matters are just like fighting, and they only need to order death? It's ridiculous!"

With such deep thoughts, Horikoshi Jiro turned a deaf ear to the sound of the car whistle, until the person in the car stepped down and pushed him, then he came back to his senses: "Kimura?"

Driving to Jiro Horikoshi was his friend and colleague Hidemasa Kimura, who was also an outstanding fighter design expert.

Kimura looked at Horikoshi and said empathetically, "Are you still having a headache about the new plane?"

Horikoshi smiled wryly: "Yeah! Three months have passed since the one-year deadline, but we still have no clue, and the few designs that we managed to come up with didn't meet the requirements of the military. Alas! The requirements of the military are too high. The time given is too tight! It’s difficult!”

"Don't push yourself too hard!" Kimura patted Horikoshi's shoulder reassuringly, "Today is the weekend! Relax! Horikoshi-kun, I know you like playing golf the most. It just so happens that there is a new golf course in the southern suburbs of Nagoya It just opened, let's go, I'm treating you today! Let's have a good day!"

"Oh, really?" Horikoshi was suddenly interested, "Why don't I know? Let's go and have a look!" He really loves playing golf.

The two got into the car, Kimura sat in the co-pilot seat, Horikoshi sat in the back seat, Horikoshi found that there were two other people in the car, one was in charge of driving, the other was sitting in the back seat like him, both of them were young, He looked like a college student who had just graduated, and looked at him with a kind smile.

"Kimura-kun, who are they?" Horikoshi was slightly surprised because he didn't know these two people at all.

"The interns I just brought!" Kimura said, "They are all students who have just graduated from Tokyo Imperial University!" He pointed to the driver and the one sitting next to Horikoshi in the back seat and introduced respectively, "This is Matsuda, this is Yasui!"

The two young men looked at Horikoshi with reverence: "Senior Horikoshi, hello! Please give me your advice in the future!"

Horikoshi smiled: "You all work hard too! Become an excellent talent of the empire as soon as possible!"

The car left the staff dormitory of Mitsubishi's Nagoya factory where Jiro Horikoshi used to work, and drove towards the suburbs.

On the way, Kimura and Horikoshi chatted and laughed happily, and the car drove fast. After more than an hour, Horikoshi faintly felt that something was wrong, because after the car drove to the southern suburbs of Nagoya, it did not see any newly opened golf courses. Instead, the car drove towards There is a simple pier on the shore, and a small tonnage cargo ship flying the sun flag is waiting by the pier.

"Kimura-kun, where's the stadium?" Horikoshi was puzzled.

The expressions of Kimura, Matsuda, and Yasui in the car changed at this moment as if taking off their masks. The smile on Kimura's face turned into a kind of helpless pain and deep guilt and self-blame, while Matsuda and Yasui faced each other. Ruo Bingshuang, with eagle-like vigilance in his eyes.

Kimura buried his head and did not speak, Matsuda concentrated on driving, Yasui sullenly pressed a hard object against Horikoshi's waist.

Horikoshi looked down and was taken aback. He couldn't believe it when he saw a pistol on his waist.

"Doctor, don't move around, and don't call for help!" Yasui said coldly, "Otherwise, I will kill you, and I will kill your whole family!" Holding a gun in his right hand, he took out a photo from his pocket in his left hand and handed it to the doctor. To Horikoshi.

Horikoshi was stunned when he glanced at it. He saw five people in the photo: his wife Sumako Sasaki was trembling and hugging her eldest son Masaro Horikoshi and his three children in horror. man with pistol.

"Your wife and children are in our hands!" An Jing's tone was ice-cold, "If you are disobedient, not only will you die, but your wife and your three children will also die, and they will die very terribly!"

"Kim...Kimura..." Horikoshi called out to Kimura in the front seat with a pale face and chattering teeth, "What's going on?"

"Horikoshi-kun...I'm sorry..." Kimura burst into tears, "They asked me to do this...My wife and children are also in their hands, I can't help it..."

"You are..." Horikoshi looked at Yasui beside him and Matsuda who was driving, "You are from China... No, no, no, you are Chinese?"

"It's good to know!" Yasui sneered, "Don't worry, as long as you cooperate, you and your family will be fine.

Your wife and children are on this ship, doctor, please come aboard! "

The car had already driven to the pier, and several capable sailors wearing sailor uniforms who were obviously not real taxation officers walked out of the boat to meet them vigilantly, looking with satisfaction at the prey that had been caught in the net.

"Seven outstanding aircraft design experts, including Jiro Horikoshi, the chief aviation engineer of Mitsubishi Corporation, and Hidemasa Kimura, have been successfully kidnapped. At present, these people are on a Japanese-registered cargo ship bound for Seoul. To Lianyungang, and then sent to Wuhan by military aircraft.

The operation went very smoothly, and the Japanese intelligence agency has not launched an effective search yet!"

Picking up the report from the Japanese branch of the Maritime Statistics Bureau in his hand, Jiang Weiguo instructed: "If Horikoshi Jiro and others try to escape or are about to lose control, kill them immediately without thinking or asking for instructions!"

The kidnapping of Horikoshi Jiro by the Maritime Bureau was personally instructed by Jiang Weiguo. In fact, in order to prevent the uncontrollable and unpredictable negative butterfly effect, Jiang Weiguo does not easily "move" people in Japan, but there are several types of people who must To "move", such as the Japanese nuclear physicist who can develop the atomic bomb, or this Jiro Horikoshi.

Horikoshi Jiro is very famous in later generations, because he is the main designer of the famous Zero aircraft. It is meaningless to say that he was tied up. The time for the Japanese to own the Zero aircraft will definitely be delayed. If it is done well, The Japanese may not be able to develop the Zero aircraft. This matter is of great significance to the Chinese Air Force's maintenance of air supremacy on the Sino-Japanese battlefield.

Jiang Weiguo kidnapped Horikoshi Jiro, not in particular because he wanted him to work for him. This Horikoshi Jiro is Japanese after all. Although he is not as stubborn as a Japanese soldier as an intellectual, it is really difficult to persuade him to betray Japan and serve the enemy. Force Coercion is useless. Jiang Weiguo's main purpose is to let Japan lose Horikoshi Jiro, not to let China get Horikoshi Jiro. Of course, it is better not to kill or not to kill.

After putting down this report, Jiang Weiguo looked at the next report: "Many heavy battleships of the Japanese Navy have sailed into the Yangtze River!"

"Jiangyin waterway was breached after all!" Jiang Weiguo scratched his head in annoyance. He calculated that Shanghai fell on November 11, and Jiangyin fell in mid-to-early November. It took the Japanese more than half a month to unblock them. The Jiangyin waterway was blocked by the national army with tens of thousands of tons of stones, thousands of mines, and hundreds of sunken ships, and the methods were very cruel and vicious. According to the forecast of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, it is conservatively estimated that the Jiangyin waterway was forcibly conscripted by the Japanese army to dredge the Jiangyin waterway. More than 1 Chinese migrant workers died due to hunger, exhaustion, disease, frostbite, drowning, beatings by the Japanese army, and massacres by the Japanese army.

Relying on the bones of countless Chinese civilians, the Japanese army opened a passage in Jiangyin.

According to information from the Maritime Statistics Bureau, there are 4 Japanese heavy warships entering the Yangtze River from the estuary of the Yangtze River. All battleships are Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, and Hyuga. There are no heavy cruisers or light cruisers. But the number of destroyers is very large, more than 20 ships.

Although Jiang Weiguo is a layman in naval operations, after thinking about it, he understands why the Japanese arranged it this way.

At this time, the Japanese Navy has a total of 10 battleships (Yamato has just started construction for more than a month, and Musashi will start construction at the end of March this year/1938), including the Nagato class (Nagato, Mutsu), Fuso class (Fuso , Yamashiro), Ise-class (Ise, Hyuga), Kongo-class (King Kong, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima), among the 10 battleships, the Nagato-class is the most powerful, Equipped with 8 410mm main naval guns, followed by the Ise class and the Fuso class, equipped with 12 356mm main naval guns, but the Ise class is improved on the basis of the Fuso class, so the overall performance is better, and finally It is the King Kong class, equipped with eight 8mm main naval guns.

According to the requirements of the Japanese Army, the Japanese Navy should drive these ten battleships into the Yangtze River, to the section of the river near Nanjing, and launch a "super-powerful bombardment" against Nanjing City, but the Japanese Navy sternly refused. This "absurd request" that "puts the navy in great danger" and "let the navy take chestnuts for the army" is simply unrealistic. Because the Yangtze River is too narrow, it is not a broad stage for battleships to flex their muscles. The army suggested "dispatching several cruisers to participate in the bombardment", but the Japanese army firmly opposed it, because "how can the power of the cruiser's naval guns be compared with that of the battleship? The battleship must be dispatched!" The two sides quarreled for half a month, and they barely backed down. Reluctantly willing to dispatch battleships, but because the Yangtze River is too narrow, only a few ships can be dispatched, and they are unwilling to dispatch Nagato and Mutsu, because these two ships are the trump cards of the Japanese Navy, and Nagato is the head of the combined fleet. The flagship has a very strong symbolic meaning. If it is planted in the Yangtze River, wouldn't it be out-and-out "it's okay to go through strong winds and waves, but it turned over in the gutter"?The army objected again, and the logic was "Since the Yangtze River is very narrow, the navy can only dispatch a few battleships, why not dispatch the most powerful ones? The quantity is limited, so it is natural to make the greatest improvement in quality."

The navy fought hard on this, and the two sides quarreled again. The army accused the navy of "greed for life and fear of death, passively avoiding war", while the navy angrily accused the army of "only knowing how to be reckless and harming the navy".

The Army finally requested that "if the Nagato and Mutsu are not dispatched, the Navy must send the remaining 8 battleships to the Nanjing War. If the Nagato and Mutsu are dispatched, the Navy only needs to dispatch Nagato, Six battleships including the Mutsu will do.” The navy had to bargain repeatedly with the army, and finally the two sides reached an agreement to dispatch the Nagato and the Mutsu, but the total number of battleships dispatched could only be four, because the Japanese navy really They are afraid of "accidents". After all, sending battleships into the Yangtze River to fight is tantamount to "binding your own hands and feet." Admiral Mitsumasa Minai, the Minister of the Navy, complained, "Sending battleships into the Yangtze River is equivalent to driving chariots into swamps. It can’t be used, it is completely fighting without the maximum combat effectiveness, it is too easy to cause accidents”, in case the Chinese army uses some “devious tactics”, even if the Japanese navy sinks 6 torpedo boats of the Chinese navy, it only needs to sink one torpedo boat. The Japanese Navy is an out-and-out loser, because this kind of exchange is completely uneconomical.

After arguing, the army and the navy barely reached an agreement: the Japanese navy dispatched the most powerful Nagato, Mutsu, and the Ise and Hyuga, which were second only to these two ships in overall combat power, to participate in the Nanjing battle, and the Japanese army served as In exchange, 15% of the Japanese Army’s military spending this year must be transferred to the Japanese Navy to assist the Japanese Navy in building the Yamato and Musashi. If these four battleships “accidentally have an accident” during the Nanjing Battle, the Japanese Army must give the Japanese Navy Make full compensation, and at the same time, the Japanese Army is responsible for fully protecting the four battleships on land.

In this regard, the Japanese Army scolded the Japanese Navy behind their backs for being "selfish, shameless, and profit-seeking, and has no overall view."

Because the Yangtze River is indeed too narrow for heavy warships, the four Japanese battleships are already difficult to use in the Yangtze River, so the Japanese Navy did not dispatch heavy cruisers and light cruisers to join the battle. After all, heavy cruisers and light cruisers are also very big. Driving into the Yangtze River with battleships is not only difficult to effectively protect the battleships, but also easy to "add congestion". Therefore, the Japanese Navy only dispatched more than [-] smaller, more maneuverable destroyers that can be deployed in the Yangtze River to join the battle. Protect four battleships.

These warships were organized into the "Imperial Navy Yangtze River Special Fleet", and the commander of the fleet was Lieutenant General Shimoda Shigetaro.