I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Among the refugees, seven or eight "refugees" dressed in civilian clothes suddenly showed their ferocity. They took out their pistols and fired at Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui, who were wearing the rank of colonel. Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui were caught off guard. Ma Weilong was shot in the head and died on the spot. In a pool of blood.

The terrified refugees fled in all directions in a panic. Some of them didn't notice that Xie Chengrui, who was lying on the ground, was still alive, and trampled on him, stomping on the seriously injured Xie Chengrui.

It can be said that the Japanese army spent a lot of effort, invested a lot of "effort" and cost for this kind of combat plan, so they did everything possible to achieve success in one fell swoop.

Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, the head of the 5th Division, is a very fine person. He specially trained a group of elite Japanese soldiers and a group of traitors who were determined to recognize their thieves as their fathers, and asked them to wear Chinese civilian clothes and mix with the refugee crowd. , Fishing in troubled waters, sneaking into the Nanjing Army's position or rear, assassinating senior Nanjing Army officers or destroying its important facilities.

The assassins of Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui were all traitors. These traitors were disguised as Chinese civilians, concealed pistols or grenades (the rifles were too long to hide on their bodies), and mixed with the refugee crowd. After seeing that Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui were both equipped with the rank of colonel, they were sure Both of them were high-ranking military officers, so they touched the assassination and successfully killed Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui.

Ma Weilong was the head of the 3rd Regiment, and Xie Chengrui was the deputy head of the 3rd Regiment. After the death of the two officers, the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Regiment were leaderless and plunged into unorganized chaos, which further turned the situation in favor of the Japanese army.

The 3rd Regiment, with battalions and companies as units, fought on their own and fought hard, and was surrounded, engulfed, and wiped out one by one by the main force of the Japanese army.

The chief of staff of the regiment, Chen Kefei, led the regiment's guards to fight desperately without retreating an inch, and was finally surrounded by the Japanese army on a small hillside. Seeing the dead officers, soldiers and civilians all over the mountains, Chen Kefei felt sad when he thought of the deaths of both Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui. Absolutely, shot himself and died for the country.

龙潭镇守军是第99师第3旅，该旅下辖第3、第6团，第3团奉命坚守龙潭镇主阵地，第6团则奉命坚守龙潭镇附近的、龙潭镇借以依存的乌龙山要塞。

Wulong Mountain has important strategic value for the city defense of Nanjing. The Qing government built a fort in the middle of the top of Wulong Mountain during the Tongzhi period, and it was expanded after the founding of the Republic of China. The foundation on which the town can stand.

However, Wulong Mountain is called a mountain, but it is actually a small hill. The hill stretches for five kilometers from east to west. The mountain is undulating like a long dragon, so it is named Wulong Mountain.

Wulong Mountain and Longtan Town are interdependent. Without Wulong Mountain, Longtan Town would have no commanding heights. Without Longtan Town, Wulong Mountain would be surrounded by enemy forces on land.

After learning that Longtan Town was about to be overwhelmed by the Japanese army and received a request for help from the 3rd Regiment, Major General Shen Fazao, the head of the 6th Regiment, was taken aback. Then he hurriedly contacted the brigade commander Hu Qiru and learned that he was not on the front line of Longtan Town at all, but went to the city to "handle official business" "Are.

Shen Fazao was suddenly furious: "Handling bullshit official business! It must be 'handling official business' on a woman!"

"Tuan Zuo, what should we do?" The officers were very nervous.

Shen Fazao hesitated for a moment, and soon, he got another news: Ma Weilong, the head of the 3rd regiment, and Xie Chengrui, the deputy head of the [-]rd regiment, had both died for the country.

"It's over! It's over!" Shen Fazao cried out repeatedly, "Ma Weilong and Xie Chengrui are dead, and the third regiment has collapsed! Longtan Town has already fallen into the hands of the little devil!"

"Tuan Zuo, what should we do?" the officers asked Shen Fazao anxiously.

Shen Fazao thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw! The whole regiment abandons Wulong Mountain and retreats to Nanjing City!"

"What? Retreat?" The officers couldn't believe it.

"Don't withdraw, wait for the little devil to make dumplings for us?" Shen Fazao said angrily, "The third regiment has collapsed, and the little devil is about to take Longtan Town. Once Longtan Town is lost, Wulong Mountain will be taken by the little devil." We are completely surrounded, and we can't hold on at all! Besides, the bastard Hu Qiru, the brigade commander, is currently on the woman's bed, why are we waiting here to die? Get out!" Shen Fazao was the deputy commander of the 87th Division before the Battle of Nanjing. Originally, the 87th Division was to be expanded into the 71st Army, and the commander Wang Jingjiu would become the commander. Shen Fazao would naturally take over as the commander of the 87th Division. Unexpectedly, with Jiang Weiguo's overall reorganization, the 87th Division was incorporated into the 88th Division. Shen Fazao did not become the commander of the 88th Division, nor did he become the deputy commander. He was assigned to be a regimental commander in the 99th Division, which made him very reluctant. As for his immediate boss, Hu Qiru, he was originally instructing the 2nd Brigade of the Corps Major General Brigadier Commander, who was still Major General Brigadier Commander at this time, but climbed to the head of the former Major General Shen Fazao, the former Deputy Division Commander, just because the 99th Division is the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, the 3rd Division, the 6th Division, the 9th Division, and the 14th Division It was formed jointly by the teachers. Hu Qiru was a "local household" and Shen Fazao was an "outsider" transferred from the 87th Division. Such "unfairness" made Shen Fazao even more conflicted.

Right now, Hu Qiru is going whoring in the city, and Shen Fazao naturally doesn't want to be surrounded by Japanese troops in Wulong Mountain.

Although most officers and soldiers of the 6th Regiment were angrily unwilling to leave, Shen Fazao left Wulong Mountain and fled back to Nanjing City.

The 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade collapsed, and the 6th Regiment's internal military order was chaotic, which made the Japanese army take over Longtan Town, an important town in the north of Nanjing City, at the cost of more than [-] casualties.

If the fall of Tangshan Town opened the door to the southeast of Nanjing City, then the fall of Longtan Town opened the door to the north of Nanjing City.

In this regard, General Matsui and other high-level Japanese troops were both surprised and delighted, because after using the "new tactics", the progress was so smooth.

Chapter 294 Furious City (4)

"Get ready!" By the Dashiqiao near the Ministry of Railways building, a group of gendarmes raised their guns together, pointing their guns at Hu Qiru, Shen Fazao and other thirteen people who were tied up in the Longtan Town and Wulongshan battles. Officers who deserted or disobeyed orders or failed to command, including two major generals and four colonels.

This was the first time that the Nanking Army had executed so many senior officers at one time during a war.

After the loss of Longtan Town, the Gendarmerie quickly launched a search operation based on reports from some officers of the 3rd Brigade. First, they caught Hu Qiru, who was addicted to the gentle village, in a guest house in the city (the "guest house" was Jiang Weiguo's name), and then in the north of the city. Qixiashan arrested Shen Fazao who led his troops to abandon the Wulongshan Fortress and retreated without authorization, and finally arrested the main personnel of the two men who could not shirk their responsibilities.

After the court-martial trial urgently convened by the Gendarmerie Corps, thirteen officers with conclusive evidence were sentenced to death.

When they were about to die, most of the thirteen officers who were about to be shot had resigned themselves to their fate, but Shen Fazao yelled, "I don't accept it! I refuse to accept it! I want to see the principal! "(Shen Fazao is a graduate of Whampoa Phase II)

Jiang Weiguo stepped forward and said coldly: "Abandoning the position without authorization is a death penalty.

What is your objection? "

Shen Fazao shouted: "The 3rd Regiment lost Longtan Town, and the 6th Regiment will be completely surrounded by the Japanese army in Wulong Mountain, and will undoubtedly die. I ordered the retreat to save the lives of the [-] brothers in the whole regiment. What's wrong?"

Jiang Weiguo smiled contemptuously: "So what if it is completely surrounded? Isn't Nanjing city now completely surrounded by the Japanese army? So what if you are sure to die? Since you chose to stay in Nanjing, aren't you ready to die here? If we fled as soon as we were in danger of being surrounded, then what are we still doing in Nanjing? Soldiers, they should fight to the death under any circumstances until they die for the country! Soldiers are not civil servants! A sense of mission and responsibility! Also, the lives of soldiers are not used to save, but to be sacrificed, and the responsibility of the commander is to make the sacrifices of the subordinates the most valuable!"

Shen Fazao was speechless for a moment.

"Execution!" Xiao Shan gave an order, and gunshots rang out. Hu Qiru, Shen Fazao and other 13 people all died in the splash of blood.

Jiang Weiguo looked at Hu Qiru, Shen Fazao and others who were lying in a pool of blood, and sighed secretly in his heart: Too many Chinese soldiers are like this. They are brave when they fight smoothly, but they retreat when they encounter adversity. Still no real mortal heart.

Jiang Weiguo admired a strong saying in the TV series "Bright Sword": Even if I got into the tiger's mouth, I would break off a tooth of it!Yes, if every Chinese soldier can do this, even if he is in a desperate situation, he has the courage to fight to the end, no matter how powerful the foreign enemy is, what is there to fear?Jiang Weiguo couldn't help but think of Jiangyin and Hiroro Onoda, who were isolated on the 81st against the Manchurian army. The former needless to say, while the latter was "the last Japanese soldier of World War II." This Hiroro Onoda belonged to the 218th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army , he was sent to the Philippine battlefield in December 1944. After the U.S. army captured the Philippines, his final order was to "keep fighting and not surrender until the day the Japanese army counterattacked." So, in the next 12 years, he He unswervingly carried out this order, and in 30, 29 years after the end of the war, he made sure that the war was over before he formally surrendered.

If every city in the Ming Dynasty could be like Jiangyin, how could the Ming Dynasty perish?If every Chinese soldier can be like Hiroro Onoda, how can China be conquered?

Jiang Weiguo just sighed with emotion, because he still had more important things to deal with. The Japanese army had already used the so-called "new tactics". What should the Nanjing army do?

"Participate!" Lin Tianyu, captain of the Gendarmerie of the 77th Division, strode over nervously, "The latest news I just got!" He handed over a document.

"These bastards!" Jiang Weiguo was furious after reading it, hating him to the bone, "It's really a bunch of bastards with no bottom line!" According to the document, eight Japanese ships had just passed through Baguazhou (a sandbar island in the section of the river near Nanjing, The third largest island in the Yangtze River), each ship was fully loaded with Chinese civilians forcibly captured by the Japanese army from southern Jiangsu, the number of which was no less than [-].

There is no doubt that these ordinary people must be forced to act as human shields when the Japanese army launches the next attack.

Xiao Yao took the telegram in Jiang Weiguo's hand and said calmly after reading it: "According to the direction the Japanese fleet is traveling, their next attack target should be Dasheng Pass!"

"Dashengguan?" Jiang Weiguo was startled.

The northern barrier of Nanjing City is Longtan Town and Wulong Mountain, the eastern barrier is Tangshan Town, and the southern barrier is Yuhuatai and Dashengguan. Relatively speaking, Dashengguan is more important than Yuhuatai, because Dashengguan is not just for Nanjing City. One of the two major barriers in the south, together with the Pukou District in the north of the Yangtze River, guards the vital Yangtze River transportation line in Nanjing City. In addition, Dashengguan is also more "fragile" than Yuhuatai, because Yuhuatai has a group of cannons on the top of the mountain, and you can also get Zijin Mountain With the help of the cannon group, Dashengguan was hanging out alone, the Zijin Mountain cannon group was beyond its reach, and the Yuhuatai artillery group could only barely reach the edge.

First came Tangshan Town, then Longtan Town, and then Dashengguan. Obviously, the Japanese army's tactics were "to remove the external barrier of Nanjing City first, and then slowly besiege and attack the main body of Nanjing City in a steady and steady manner."

"If Dasheng Pass is captured by the Japanese army, Pukou District must be next!" Xiao Yao analyzed.

"Military division, what should we do?" Jiang Weiguo gritted his teeth and was worried.

Xiao Yao thought for a while: "The Japanese army could not attack our defense line for a long time, so they used such shameless and indecent tactics. Therefore, the Japanese army must attack during the daytime, so that the Chinese civilians who were driven by them in the front can let our army officers and soldiers Saw it and couldn't bear to fire because of it.

It's now..." He looked at his watch, "It's eight o'clock in the evening, so the Japanese army should launch an attack after dawn at six o'clock tomorrow morning, and we still have ten hours!"

"Ten hours, what should we do?" Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette and smoked it vigorously.

"Participate!" Lin Tianyu suggested, "Bu Xiao's frogman troops performed well in the last battle on the Mutsu. Since the Japanese fleet will stay on the Yangtze River for one night, in my opinion, Bu Xiao can take the lead. Let the frogmen board the boat and attack, rescue the common people!"

"This law treats the symptoms but not the root cause!" Xiao Yao shook his head, "If we save this time, there will be another time. The Japanese don't care about the lives of ordinary people in our country anyway. Southern Jiangsu is densely populated. The Japanese will arrest another group of ordinary people at worst!"

"Military teacher, what should we do?" Jiang Weiguo looked at Xiao Yao with all his internal organs burned.

Xiao Yao looked at Jiang Weiguo with squinted eyes, there was an intriguing and tacit meaning in his eyes, he said a few more words in a low voice, and finally said: "That's the only way!"

Jiang Weiguo was heartbroken. After smoking the cigarette, he threw the cigarette butt on the ground bitterly: "Let's go! Go to Dasheng Pass!"

"Participant..." Xiao Yao suddenly called Jiang Weiguo.

"Huh?" Jiang Weiguo looked at Xiao Yao in surprise.

Xiao Yao showed a difficult and weird smile: "Happy New Year's Eve!"

Jiang Weiguo froze for a moment, then smiled wryly. He remembered that today is January 1938, 1, the New Year's Eve of Ding Chou.

In this era when war is put first and at the front line of this war, Jiang Weiguo has already forgotten that tomorrow will be the New Year.

New Year's Eve was supposed to be a beautiful day full of hope and longing to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, but... Jiang Weiguo thought sadly and resentfully, how did Nanjing live on New Year's Eve in 1938 in history?It was lived in the dark horror of the Nanjing Massacre. It should be noted that the Nanjing Massacre lasted from December 1937, 12 to February 13, 1938, which is the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Naturally, there are no celebrations in Nanjing City on New Year’s Eve. The sound of gunfire is the sound of firecrackers, and the artillery fire that shines in the night is the colorful fireworks. However, officers and soldiers can still have fun while suffering, and there are certain conditions.

Half an hour later, Jiang Weiguo arrived at Dasheng Pass in a torpedo boat. He saw that there were "decorated lights and festoons and bursts of singing", and the trenches were covered with couplets. , written without literary talent, but quite rough and heroic in the field of battle:

The first couplet is—the front line of self-interest is covered with gold.

The second line is—for the national battlefield, the bullets are raining, and Lao Tzu is in front

The horizontal batch is - the hero sees the bear

Jiang Weiguo wanted to laugh. He asked, and knew that this nondescript couplet was written by Zhang Yun, the deputy commander of the Dasheng Guan Shoujun.

Jiang Weiguo had some impressions of Zhang Yun. He was originally the commander of the 77nd Battalion of the 772th Regiment of the 128nd Brigade of the 2th Division. It's closed.

Dashengguan is where the rivers in the southwest of Nanjing flow into the Yangtze River. The river is turbulent. Zhu Yuanzhang once defeated Chen Youliang here, so he named this place "Dashengguan". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dashengguan was located in the southwest of Nanjing. The main port and military fortress, the terrain here is dangerous, and it has been the Jiangfang fortress and transit port of Nanjing since ancient times. Although it gradually fell into disrepair after entering the Republic of China, it was consolidated and expanded before the Battle of Nanjing and became the west of Nanjing City. The military fortress along the river in the south, because the fortress is the last access to Nanjing City.

Dashengguan Fortress and Wulongshan Fortress are known as the "North and South Two Fortresses" of Nanjing.

The Wulong Mountain Fortress was built on a hill, while the Dashengguan Fortress was built at the intersection of the Yangtze River, Jiajiang River, Qinhuai New River, and Banqiao River. Surrounded by water on three sides, it presents an irregular quadrilateral shape. It consists of two bridgeheads, the central fortification is circular and closed, similar to a small castle, with a circumference of one kilometer and a wall one meter thick. It is made of concrete and pebbles and is extremely strong. There are more than 3 firing ports and firepower points.

The troops stationed here include two reinforced infantry battalions, two infantry artillery companies, and two heavy mortar companies. There are more than 2000 troops and more than 1000 militiamen. Colonel Gu Dinghua, the commander, and the two infantry battalions are the 128st Battalion and the 1nd Battalion of the 2th Regiment. Since the commander of the 1st Battalion died in battle not long ago, Gu Dinghua also served as the commander of the 1st Battalion.

After arriving at Dasheng Pass, Jiang Weiguo was surprised to see that three serial fortification belts had been built around the fortress, making the fortress more complete and strong. He was surprised: "Why are there three more fortification belts? Where did you get the buildings?" Material?"

Gu Dinghua smiled and said, "It's not cement, it's clay!"

"soil?"

"Well, the soil excavated on the spot!" Gu Dinghua introduced, "Brothers first boiled water with firewood, poured it on the ground to melt the frozen soil, and then poured the hot mud into sacks to pile it up. Stop watering the river, and when the cold wind blows, after one night, the moisture in the mud in the sack will freeze the soil as hard as a stone, and the outside of the sack will also be covered with a thick layer of ice, which is absolutely unstoppable Bullets, even cannonballs.

We dug up the soil on the ground to get a trench or trench, and then piled the excavated soil in front of the trench or trench in the same way as before, and we have another fortification, killing two birds with one stone! "

"Good way, good way!" Jiang Weiguo praised again and again, "Gu Tuanzuo, your way is really good!" Gu Dinghua is a regiment-level officer.

Gu Dinghua smiled and said: "It was Zhang Yun who came up with it. After repeated inspections after he came to Dashengguan, he found that the fortress had many shortcomings because of the tight construction schedule before the war, so he asked to strengthen the fortress. I said there was no material. , he said that there are materials everywhere, so he used this method!"

Jiang Weiguo smiled: "It is indeed a good way.

What about Zhang Yunren? "

Gu Dinghua shook his head and smiled wryly: "Tonight is New Year's Eve, Zhou Xuan held a song meeting at Dashengguan to express his condolences to Lao Jun, he must have gone to Zhou Xuan's song meeting.

This guy seemed to be fascinated by Zhou Xuan as soon as he saw him. He also claimed that Zhou Xuan would not marry him in this life, but he was already engaged to the famous composer Mr. Yan Hua.

I heard that Zhou Xuan was very annoying to Zhang Yun and said that he would consider marrying him only after he had killed 1 Japanese devils.

This guy, a small battalion commander, has a serious tone!"

Jiang Weiguo is not interested in this kind of gossip: "Let's get down to business! According to reliable information, the Japanese army will launch an attack on Dashengguan tomorrow morning, and will use 'extraordinary means'!"

Gu Dinghua's expression suddenly changed: "Is it the method used in Longtan Town?"

Jiang Weiguo nodded solemnly: "The Japanese army has transported tens of thousands of people from southern Jiangsu with a fleet, and they are in the Baguazhou area, and they will go into battle tomorrow morning.

Gutuanzao, do you have any countermeasures? "

Gu Dinghua's face was like the night sky at this time, he thought for 3 minutes before answering: "I don't know!"

Jiang Weiguo sighed with empathy: "I don't know either!"

Xiao Yao said slowly from the side: "Some things, you will regret if you do it, and you will regret it if you don't do it. There is no choice!"