I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

The Japanese Navy and the Nanjing Army signed the "Great Victory Pass Agreement", which made the Japanese Army no less than being stabbed into a super hornet's nest. In an instant, all kinds of scolding and cursing against the Japanese Navy resounded inside the Japanese Army.

"Cowards in the Navy! Trash! Wretches! Cowards!"

"The high-level navy must collectively cut seppuku! They have brought unprecedented shame to the Great Japanese Empire and the Great Japanese Imperial Army!"

"Our army fought bravely, and those bastards in the navy actually signed a peace agreement with the Chinese army behind their backs!"

"Unforgivable! You must settle accounts with the navy!"

The Japanese army all gritted their teeth and bristled with anger.

It is well known that the Japanese army and navy have always been at odds, and this "discord" is by no means as simple as sneering at each other. In fact, the conflict between the Japanese army and navy has been intensified to the point where they almost drew their swords and wiped their guns. the point.

During the February [-]th Mutiny, members of the Imperial Road faction in the Japanese army brutally killed the veterans who they regarded as "deceiving the emperor and dragging down the country". Three generals of the navy were attacked (one was killed and two were seriously injured), As a result, the Japanese Navy immediately set a policy of severely suppressing the mutiny, and the Japanese Army’s Emperor’s faction received the acquiescence, consent, support, and even connivance of many high-level Japanese Army officials. Therefore, the Japanese Navy’s suppression of the Japanese Army’s Emperor’s faction is almost equal to At that time, the Japanese navy quickly drove the joint fleet out of the port to prevent being held hostage by the army. At the same time, it actively mobilized the marines to Tokyo, preparing to directly participate in the military operation to suppress the imperial faction. The deputy wants to fight the Japanese army to the end, and even plans to take the emperor to the warship for protection.

Needless to say, once this atmosphere of mutual distrust arises, it will be difficult to clear up the previous suspicions.

Naturally, right now, the Japanese army is completely furious.

"Hey!" After learning about this, Ishihara Waner, chief of staff of the Central China Front Army, smiled coldly, "The battleship Mutsu is worth more than [-] million yen, and the monthly salary of an ordinary soldier in the army is seven or eight days. Yuan, let me ask, how many lives of army soldiers are worth the Mutsu? Isn’t it natural for the navy to do this?” He sneered.

Chapter 289 Scorched City (9)

The Mutsu incident was finally "satisfactorily resolved" under the mediation of the six major powers of Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and Italy. Of course, the so-called "satisfactory resolution" refers to Jiang Weiguo and his representatives As for the Nanjing Army and China, the other protagonist of the incident, the Japanese navy, did succeed in saving the Mutsu, but its losses in other aspects were extremely heavy. First of all, 11 warships were blackmailed by Jiang Weiguo, with a total tonnage of about 1.9 Secondly, they were forced to sign an unequal agreement, which can be described as disgraceful and devoid of dignity, and suffered an "unprecedented shame and humiliation". .

The Japanese army scolded the navy from top to bottom. Although the Japanese navy knew that it was wrong and was scolded, it also made a rebuttal with confidence. The logic is ready-made: "The Japanese navy took the risk of sending battleships into the Japanese army to help the Japanese army." In the inland river of the Yangtze River, which is not conducive to battleship operations, the Mutsu fell into a huge crisis where life and death were on the line. The army did not do anything to rescue the Mutsu. It doesn't make sense."

It is said that during the Dashengguan negotiations, the Navy Minister, Admiral Minai, called the Army Minister, Sugiyama Moto, to discuss. Admiral Minai said straight to the point: "The Nanjing Army has put forward a request that is very unfavorable to the Army, and the Navy may have to be forced to accept it. , if the navy refuses...the navy will lose the Mutsu, I don't know...can the army make corresponding compensation to the navy?" He said the last sentence cautiously and hesitantly.

When the Japanese Navy established the "Yangtze Fleet" at the request of the Japanese Army, the two parties reached an agreement: the Japanese Army will transfer 15% of the Japanese Army's military spending this year to the Japanese Navy to assist the Japanese Navy in building the Yamato and Musashi. The battleship "accidentally had an accident" during the Battle of Nanjing. The Japanese Army must make full compensation to the Japanese Navy. At the same time, the Japanese Army is responsible for fully protecting the four battleships on land.

According to this agreement, if the Mutsu was blown up by the National Army frogmen, the Japanese Army would have to pay the Japanese Navy.

How much do you pay?The Mutsu is worth around 1.2 million yen.

Admiral Sugiyama Moto suddenly gasped: "The Navy is shameless! The Army is actually asking for more than 8000 million yen in military expenditures! The Army's military expenditure this year is only more than 1921 million yen, and the Navy took more than 1930 million yen at once. What else can the Army do this year? Can we continue to fight on the battlefield of China? How shameless is the navy? They want to drain the army!" (The Japanese military spent more than 7 million yen a year from 5 to [-]. After the London Conference and After the Washington Conference, Japan began large-scale disarmament, and its military spending was reduced to less than [-] million yen per year. There were also several prime ministers who wanted to continue reducing military spending by [-] million yen, but those prime ministers were all assassinated by Japanese military radicals Or intimidation, so the plan to continue to cut [-] million military spending has not been realized.

It was the beginning of 1938. The Japanese army’s military expenditure this year was more than 5 million yen, but the military expenditure was not divided equally between the army and the navy. The Japanese navy always accounted for a larger share of military expenditure. More than 60% of the Japanese military expenditure belonged to the navy, while the army only had [-]%. forty.

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After being reprimanded by General Sugiyama Gen, even though General Minai has always been a good-tempered and honest person, he couldn't help but get angry: "The navy is giving everything to help the army! The navy is in danger now, but the army has no promises and turned their backs." Don't admit it! Since the army is so heartless and ungrateful, don't blame the navy!"

Because the Japanese army refused to compensate the Japanese navy for more than [-] million yuan, the Japanese navy agreed to Jiang Weiguo's request during the Dashengguan negotiations.

To put it bluntly, if the demands put forward by Jiang Weiguo are realized, the Japanese Army will suffer the most. Although the Japanese Navy is extremely unwilling to lose the Mutsu, it does not want to "sell out" the Japanese Army at first, but the Japanese Army is unwilling to compensate The Japanese Navy (mainly because the Mutsu is too expensive, and the Japanese Army can’t afford to pay for it), the Japanese Navy simply doesn’t care about the attitude of the Japanese Army and what consequences it will have on the Japanese Army after signing this agreement. signed the Great Victory Agreement.

It should be noted that since China and Japan have not formally declared war on each other, even if the armies of the two countries have already fought bloody corpses at this time, it is only an "armed conflict" politically, not a political "war." Therefore, the signing of a temporary armistice agreement between the Japanese navy and the Nanjing army cannot be regarded as an "act of treason". Just like the Songhu War of Resistance in early 1932, the Chinese navy signed a "mutual non-fire agreement" with the Japanese army.

Of course, the Chinese navy was scolded bloodily by the whole country at that time, and the Japanese navy must have been scolded at the same time, mainly by the Japanese army.

In a conventional sense, among the three major military services, the air force is the most technical, followed by the navy, and the army is the most basic. Naturally, the "civilized level" of the Japanese army is much lower than that of the Japanese navy, which is more open-minded and far-sighted because of its stronger technology. To put it bluntly, the Japanese navy often goes abroad, while the Japanese army is just a group of "bumps" living in East Asia.

The value of the Mutsu is as high as more than 1 million yen. It is impossible for the Japanese Navy to "starvate to death is a small matter, and injustice is a major matter." Moreover, the Japanese Army even treats a dozen-ton iron tank as a treasure, let alone the Japanese Navy. Mutsu's cherished attitude, and the Japanese Navy has obtained the acquiescence of Emperor Hirohito in this matter.

With the signing of the "Great Victory Pass Agreement", the situation on the battlefield in Nanjing has been greatly improved, and the situation cannot but be called great!There are three conditions. According to the first item, the Nanjing Army will no longer be bombarded by the Japanese capital ships. According to the second item, German ships can deliver arms to China again. According to the third item, the Chinese navy also took a batch of ships by the way Ships, the Chinese Navy's surface fleet, which is almost exhausted, has received an important blood transfusion.

For a time, the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, the headquarters of the Military Commission in Wuhan, and the Naval Headquarters in Fuzhou were all cheering.

Chiang Kai-shek (himself) was overjoyed when he learned of this, and he was so elated that he would definitely reward Jiang Weiguo, a genius son. However, Jiang Weiguo didn't lack anything, and Chiang Kai-shek didn't have what he lacked. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek ordered that the ship be seized The incoming destroyer Shigure was renamed "Weiguo".

At the same time, the Japanese army and navy were full of anger. Not only were the high-level officers slapping each other at the table, but the middle-level and middle-level officers who were more emotional were even more furious. Scolding and provoking, and even, even the middle and low-level officers and soldiers of the army were determined to assassinate "those cowardly, weak, incompetent, despicable and shameless traitors who betrayed the army" among the high-level navy. Afterwards, he already had experience in dealing with the army. Important places, important facilities, and important people were all closely protected by the Marine Corps in the first place.

After the sandbag fortification, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Marine Corps with livid faces and the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Army who came gnashing their teeth held guns at each other, and the two sides would shoot each other at any time.

"If the army really wants to do it, the navy will accompany it to the end!" The persecution of the Japanese army made the Japanese navy filled with righteous indignation.

Originally, the Japanese navy was more or less guilty of signing the "Dashengguan Agreement" and felt a little guilty for the Japanese army, but the army's arrogant and violent attitude made the navy unable to bear it. The army demanded that the navy "immediately abolish the " The Dashengguan Agreement, to send more battleships and heavy cruisers into the Yangtze River, to help the army take Nanjing, first, to fulfill its own responsibilities, and second, to make up for the army.” The navy definitely disagrees with this.

In the words of Lieutenant General Yamamoto 56, "The relationship between the Japanese Army and Navy after the 'Mutsu Incident' has surpassed that of the February [-] Mutiny. I am really worried that a civil war will break out in the Japanese army."

In the end, the turmoil was barely suppressed by Emperor Hirohito's personal appearance.

Hirohito specially summoned the main high-level leaders of the army and navy, and severely criticized them for "disregarding the overall interests of the empire, fighting against each other, and fratricide." Then, according to Hirohito's suggestion, the navy relieved the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Mitsumasa Yone, and the commander of the United Fleet Yoshida Zengo. Vice Admiral Shimada Shigetaro, Commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, and many other senior officers were appointed on the grounds that "improper command put the Mutsu in a major crisis and caused the Imperial Navy to suffer unprecedented humiliation and heavy losses". In fact, the removal of these people is to appease the army's anger.

While the Japanese army was in chaos, the city of Nanjing became even more indestructible.

It is worth mentioning that there is another detail in this "Mutsu Incident", that is Masahiko Otowa, the second son of Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya.

Otowa Masahiko was taken hostage by Bu Xiao and other frogmen. During the Dashengguan negotiations, the Japanese side requested the release of Otowa Masahiko, but Jiang Weiguo flatly refused. It doesn't matter what Otowa Masahiko is."

Jiang Weiguo was not stupid, and he knew the value of Otowa Masahiko, so he insisted on not letting go. In the end, Otowa Masahiko was escorted to Nanjing City by Bu Xiao and other frogmen, and became another senior prisoner of the Nanjing Army.

On January 1, the Japanese Central China Front Army launched another comprehensive attack on Nanjing.

This attack was endowed with strong subjective emotional factors by the Japanese Army. First, it became angry from embarrassment and hated the Nanjing Army for doing such a trick, which forced the Japanese Navy to basically stop directly participating in the Nanjing War. Second, it was to prove that "the gang without the Navy Cowards, the army can still fight", angry with the navy.

Amidst the earth-shattering artillery fire and Japanese howls, a full 20 Japanese troops were thrown into the attack, and with the momentum of blooming in all directions, they swept to all directions of Nanjing City, Zijin Mountain, Longtan Town, Wulong Mountain, Yuhuatai, Dasheng Guan, Pukou District... All the main positions in the extension of Nanjing City were all attacked by the Japanese army like a raging wave.

The Nanjing Army had no fear, and fought with all their strength. The two sides fought so darkly that the mountains and rivers changed color.

Around Nanjing City, the sound of killing was like thunder, and the blood was like lightning.

"I spend my days in vain singing, who is the hero? Although three households in Chu can destroy Qin, how can there be no one in China?" Jiang Weiguo stood on Toutuo Ridge of Zijin Mountain and watched the battle condescendingly while chanting, "Good time! Come on! Good! I can't wait for it! Let's see who dies more!"

The fight was all head-to-head as both sides' greatest strengths were cut.

The battle fleet of the Japanese Navy has been bitten by snakes once, and has been afraid of well ropes for ten years. In addition, it was forced to sign the "Dashengguan Agreement", and it will definitely not dispatch heavy capital ships to participate in the battle. Therefore, the Japanese ground troops did not have powerful naval artillery fire support and could only rely on land artillery, so the artillery fire was greatly reduced; in terms of the Nanjing Army, the most powerful of the Nanjing Army is the five artillery mountains, but the five The mountain fortifications of the Paoshan Mountain were all severely damaged by the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese battle fleet for more than an hour. All were destroyed or collapsed, requiring a lot of manpower, material resources and time to slowly repair, and it was difficult to bombard the Japanese army from a high position, resulting in a sharp reduction of the Nanjing Army's heavy firepower by more than half.

The red-eyed Japanese army was completely desperate, frantically launching a violent attack regardless of casualties.

When the fierce battle officially broke out, the cold wind swept across the entire south of the Yangtze River, the wind was surging, the sky was freezing, and a heavy snow fell from the sky suddenly.

The "Chinese Heroes Daily" report described: "...in the biting cold wind where the dripping water turned into ice, there were so many Japanese soldiers, densely packed, mighty, like ants and locusts, stepping on the knee-deep snow, gathering The yellow avalanche roared and swept all the way to our army's positions. Our soldiers shelled, strafed, and threw grenades, and laid a large number of mines and dug a large number of traps in advance. The heavy snow helped our army. It needs to be painted white with white paint and then placed in the snow. There is no need to bury it in the soil. As for the pit, it is enough to dig a few reeds and spread a straw mat. Although the cold makes the soil Being frozen like a rock, it is very troublesome to dig, but the officers and soldiers have a way.

The officers and soldiers used large pots to boil snow, water and ice. Firewood was not a problem. So many trees had been cut down. The officers and soldiers had enough firewood. After boiling the water, they poured it on the ground to melt the permafrost, and then dug pits.

The Japanese soldiers who charged over immediately turned on their backs and galloped like wolves. Those who stepped on the landmines flew blood and flesh, rolled and wailed, those who stepped on the pits broke their bones and pierced their flesh, and they were worse than death.

In front of each position, the corpses of Japanese soldiers lay all over the field and piled up into mountains. The snow was full of corpses of Japanese soldiers in disorder and pools of blood flowing from the corpses. The blood of the Japanese soldiers first melted the snow and then froze in the cold wind. It turned into puddles of red ice, the snow was as white as rice paper, and the blood of the Japanese soldiers was like red ink blobs blooming everywhere on the rice paper. It was blown to pieces in the shell explosion, and all kinds of torn limbs flew in the air in the air waves, and fell down one after another, messy and shocking.

The battlefield was originally covered with snow, a piece of pure white covered with silver, just like a huge piece of rice paper, after the fierce battle broke out, yellow, black, red...all kinds of colors bloomed crazily on it The yellow ones are the living or corpses of Japanese soldiers, the black ones are the craters exploded by shells, and the red ones are the blood or residual limbs of Japanese soldiers, all of which are bizarre and colorful.

After the cold wind passed, snowflakes flew, and everything was covered in white again, and then it was grotesque and colorful again in the next attack of the Japanese army.

The yellow avalanche of the Japanese army crashed into the impenetrable dam like a stormy sea. Our army's position continued to thunder and lightning, and thousands of arrows were fired. The bullets were shot like wind and rain, forming an insurmountable wall of death. The Japanese soldiers who swept over were knocked down in groups and fell into the snow, forming yellow, black, and red sand dunes of the dead. , was covered by snowflakes, and then trampled on by the follow-up Japanese army.

The earth-shattering gunfire and explosions were mixed with angry Chinese roars and heart-piercing Japanese screams. There were countless casualties in the Japanese army, but the wave of attacks was still endless and turbulent. Red-eyed, many people were too soft to kill, exhausted and even collapsed.

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On the battlefield of snow and wind, the Nanjing army and the Japanese army killed white blood, blood red, snow cold, and snow filled the sky, the red fire was like a rainbow, and the streamer was like a torch. All the main positions were madly slaughtered.

During the bloody battle, the Japanese army that rushed to the Nanjing Army's position was completely shrouded in the firepower net of the Nanjing Army. Therefore, the corpses of the dead Japanese soldiers who were frozen like stones were built into the forefront of fortifications on the spot, and they relied on the corpse position to start a confrontation with the Nanjing Army. Shooting at each other, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army also collected the dead bodies of the Japanese soldiers during the battle, and piled them on the gaps in the positions to block them. Violence and brutality are almost universally rare.

The Japanese attack lasted for three full days and three nights, with almost no gaps. They attacked frantically during the day and at night. On the evening of January 1, the Japanese army finally stopped attacking. The reason is very simple. It exceeded the limit of the Japanese army's tolerance, but did not obtain too valuable results. However, after the Japanese army stopped attacking, the Nanjing army launched a counterattack.

"Our army has been passively defending. The Japanese really think that our army will only be beaten?" Li Yutang, the commander of the 99th Division, raised his arms and shouted sharply, "All fight back!"

Jiang Weiguo, the de facto commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Army, received an overwhelming request for "all counterattacks" after consulting the division commanders and brigade commanders, because although the Nanjing Army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, its combat effectiveness was not greatly weakened. At the same time, the morale of the officers and soldiers was boiling and their fighting spirit was high, while the Japanese army suffered heavy losses and the veterans were exhausted. It was in line with the objective conditions to launch a counterattack. The only shortcoming was that the ammunition hoarded by the Nanjing Army was starting to run out.

"Eight cargo ships from Germany have arrived in Ningbo, and three of them are carrying 5000 million rounds of ammunition for 98k rifles, mp-28 submachine guns, and mg-34 machine guns that they sold to us (actually half-sell and half-free). Then it was transported to Nanjing!" When Jiang Weiguo was a little hesitant, Liu Qihu sent this report to Jiang Weiguo.

The Japanese navy no longer blockaded China's coastal ports (that is, it did not attack foreign ships coming to or leaving China, but the Japanese navy could still attack Chinese ships), which resumed the arms trade between China and Germany.

The eight German cargo ships that arrived in Ningbo had actually already arrived. They had been staying in Cam Ranh Bay, the Vietnamese colony of the French, and did not dare to enter China's territorial waters.

"Since the bullets will be replenished immediately, what are you afraid of!" Jiang Weiguo slapped his thigh, "Counterattack! Hit hard!"

Amidst Changhong's Chinese shouts of killing, the Nanjing army launched a full-scale counterattack against the retreating Japanese army. The two sides fought bloody all night, and the war did not officially end until the morning of January 1.

In this battle, the Nanjing Army spent more than 4000 million rounds of bullets alone, but it also achieved great results. A total of more than 3.8 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured, of which more than 2.5 Japanese soldiers were killed (including those who died after being injured. Injured Japanese soldiers), including 2 brigade commanders at the major general level and 7 officers at the senior rank, the Nanjing Army itself suffered a total of 1.27 casualties, of which about 5000 were killed in battle or died after being injured. The results of the battle were brilliant.

In terms of total casualties, the ratio of the Nanjing Army to the Japanese Army is roughly 1:3, but in terms of the total number of deaths, the ratio of the Nanjing Army to the Japanese Army is 1:5. This is because the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army will be quickly carried down for treatment after being injured However, it was difficult for the wounded Japanese soldiers who fell on the battlefield to be treated in time. Many wounded Japanese soldiers died of freezing to death in the wind and snow after bleeding dry.

After this battle, the total number of casualties of the Japanese attacking Nanjing officially exceeded 15, of which about 9 were killed; the total number of casualties of the Nanjing Army was about 4.8, of which about 2 were killed.

There is no doubt that the Chinese army still holds the initiative and the upper hand in the Nanjing War.

Chapter 290 Scorched City (10)

Snowflakes flew between the howls of the cold wind, and the entire Nanjing battlefield was covered with silver and jade dust.

Over Tangshan Town, several sun flags shivered in the wind and snow. Although there was a fire in the front headquarters of the Japanese Central China Front Army located here, the indoor temperature seemed to be colder than the outdoors. The meeting hall was shrouded in a gust of wind The gloom and gloom of the Japanese military leaders attending the meeting were all gloomy.

"It's been 42 days!" General Matsui sighed, "But we are still blocked outside the city of Nanjing, and the total number of casualties of the imperial army has reached 15!" His words were full of strong sadness and pain.

If General Matsui was full of ambition and pride when he was ordered to attack Nanjing, then now he has almost reached the point where his grief is greater than his heart's death.

Lieutenant General Yanagawa, Lieutenant General Hata Toshi-six, Major General Tsukada Gong and others were all silent, and even the most violent and arrogant Lieutenant General King Hatohiko just kept his face livid and silent at this time.

The battle of Nanjing lasted for 42 days. The number of casualties of the Japanese army reached 15, and the number of deaths alone was as high as 9. However, the Japanese army had no particularly great results except for the capture of Tangshan Town. Faced with this situation, even the most invincible Japanese soldiers had to curb their arrogance, because this battle was indeed very tragic, it was so tragic that the Japanese army was disgraced, and even the most arrogant Japanese soldiers had no confidence No more hubris.

"Hehehe..." Major General Ishihara Waner, the chief of staff of the front army who became more and more taciturn in the war meeting after the war started, laughed coldly, "Masters, I have already said that the imperial army's attack on Nanjing is a strategic strategy. A major mistake!" In addition to a sneer, there was also an angry ridicule and a helpless wry smile in his smile.

"But..." Major General Tsukata Gong, the deputy chief of staff of the front army, said with a numb face and a low tone, "There is no turning back when you open the bow. This is the end. If the imperial army gives up attacking Nanjing, wouldn't it be... it will lead to Many previous efforts have been in vain. Second, it is tantamount to admitting that the imperial army is unable to capture Nanjing, and the Chinese army is the winner of the Battle of Nanjing. Third, it will also cause immeasurable major setbacks and losses to the empire's great cause of conquering China..."

"Hehehe..." Ishihara Waner sneered again, "It's not terrible to do wrong things, it's the most terrible thing to do wrong things that cannot be corrected! Nanjing is a big quagmire, and you all tried every means to jump into it. Now, I can't extricate myself and it's too late to regret it!"

"Ishihara-kun!" Lieutenant General Liu Chuan held back the anger in his heart, "You are the chief of staff of the front army! It is your duty to devote yourself to the war and make suggestions! It is not to make all kinds of yin and yang, eccentricities, and troubles against the soldiers of the imperial army who are fighting bloody battles. Useless cynicism! How can your sarcasm just now be worthy of the thousands of imperial soldiers who fell on the Nanjing battlefield!"