I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

I was at a loss, Masao died, and I was the only one left in the squadron out of eight fellow villagers from Tango Town, Takeno County, Kyoto Prefecture.

If I can go back, how can I face their relatives? ... recruits are constantly being replenished, and veterans are constantly being handicapped with missing arms and legs or ashes packed in urns and then sent back to China. The recruits are as energetic and passionate as when we first came. They Talking and laughing happily, talking about how to teach the Chinese people on the battlefield, but soon, they became silent, patient, depressed and even numb just like us.

Although I shouldn't have this kind of 'non-national' thinking, but I have confirmed that the Imperial Headquarters lied to us, they claimed that the Chinese army is vulnerable, the Chinese people are cowardly and lowly, and the imperial army can take it with a single effort Nanjing, occupying the whole of China, when the war just broke out, they even declared that 'in just three months, the empire can conquer China' and 'by this time next year, China will be part of the empire', but what about now?I firmly believe that these are all lies, at least they are not applicable to Nanjing. The Chinese people in Nanjing are resisting us crazily. We are deeply shocked and caught off guard by their fighting spirit. Their will to see death as home is by no means low Yu Huangjun.

...The imperial army on the Nanjing battlefield had to change its offensive strategy from an all-out attack to a focused attack. Even so, the battle situation was still difficult.

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General Matsui, who was exhausted by the almost unbreakable stalemate and even deadlock on the Nanjing battlefield, decided to accept the proposal of Chief of Staff Ishihara Kanji after repeated military meetings that made him nauseous, and changed from "full-scale offensive" to "focused attack". "Attack", that is, cannibalism tactics. The targets are the two fortresses in the north and south of Nanjing City - Wulong Mountain and Dashengguan. Turning from offense to defense, digging trenches and constructing fortifications on the spot restrained the main force of the Nanjing Army, making it difficult to mobilize and counterattack the main force of the Nanjing Army (once the Nanjing Army counterattacks, it must leave the trench position and start a field battle with the Japanese army. The ratio of casualties between the two sides is the same. First, the Japanese army wanted nothing for it. Now the Japanese army is building fortifications in the field. If the Nanjing army really counterattacks, it will be an offensive and defensive battle with the Japanese army in the field. The Nanjing army will attack the position and the Japanese army will defend the position. The elite troops concentrated their firepower (not concentrated their forces), and attacked the important positions of the Nanjing Army one by one, encroaching on the Nanjing Army's control area one by one.

Although this tactic is relatively slow and conservative, it is more effective and safe. On the one hand, it can squeeze the Nanjing Army's territory space; on the one hand, it can gradually put the Nanjing Army at a disadvantage in terms of the overall situation; Properly boost morale, boost the morale of the army, and at the same time have an explanation for the Tokyo base camp.

In fact, because the war in Nanjing has been deteriorating, the senior officials in Tokyo are quite dissatisfied with General Matsui. Many senior military generals have proposed to replace General Matsui, but General Matsui still sits firmly on the "throne" of the Central China Front Army Commander-in-Chief. You can sit still. The trust and protection of the Minister of War, Gen. Sugiyama, is a secondary reason. The main reason is that this "throne" is actually a "butt ironing chair" that is placed on the stove and makes people feel like sitting on pins and needles. General Matsui sits on it. It is actually miserable, which of the generals in Tokyo doesn't know the reason?So basically no one is willing to take over from General Matsui to "get their ass burned".

If the battle of Nanjing went smoothly, with only a few setbacks, then the person who wants to succeed General Matsui must be like a crucian carp in the river, and the logic is ready-made: winning Nanjing is a major military achievement that shines in the annals of history, and there is a chance to replace General Matsui. , who wouldn't?But now, the Battle of Nanjing is destined to be a bitter fruit, and you have to eat it if you can’t eat it, so no one is willing to eat it instead of General Matsui. Maybe the Japanese army will suffer a big defeat in the Battle of Nanjing in the end. Leaving a taint and infamy, and even losing it at the end of the year, naturally, the ghost is willing to be the "receiver" for General Matsui to clean up the mess and wipe the ass.

The flames of war on the Nanjing battlefield suddenly concentrated on Wulong Mountain in the north of the city and Dasheng Pass in the south of the city.

"The Japanese warship is coming!" On the fort of Wulong Mountain, Li Xi shouted holding up his binoculars.

Luo Long hurried over: "Battleship? If it's a battleship, we're dead! Damn it! Is this also called a mountain?" He looked helplessly at Wulong Mountain where he was, the highest peak was only 72 meters, " This fucking is also called a mountain! The earth slope is almost the same!"

"It's not a battleship, it's a cruiser!" Li Xi looked carefully, "There are four light cruisers, and there are seven or eight destroyers!"

"Little Japan really does things according to the rules!" Luo Long smiled wryly.

According to the first item of the "Dashengguan Agreement" signed by the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Navy must withdraw from the Nanjing War. Japanese ships and ships with a tonnage of more than 5000 tons are not allowed to cross Jiangyin in the Yangtze River. Japanese ships and ships that meet this condition No more than 5000 ships with a tonnage between 3000 tons and 4 tons can cross Jiangyin.

At this time, the Japanese fleet that arrived at the river near Wulong Mountain to participate in the battle did "conform" to the agreement. Four Kuma-class light cruisers (4 tons) and a group of destroyers arrived. One Kumo-class had seven 5000mm main naval guns. The 1 ships have 7 guns, and the Japanese Navy, driven by the mediation of Emperor Hirohito and the mentality of wanting to make up for the army, worked hard to assist the army. The main guns of the light cruisers fired armor-piercing shells to destroy the tunnel fortifications of the Nanjing Army.

"Do you want to fight back?" Li Xi looked at the Japanese fleet on the river, the Wulong Mountain Fortress had fortress artillery.

"Fight back!" Luo Long sighed, "Hide in the tunnel! Ready to kill!" He looked down the mountain, and a large number of Japanese troops were gathering and moving over.

The Wulong Mountain Fortress is built with mountains as the main body. The main peak of the mountain is almost hollowed out, and the interior is full of concrete fortification tunnels. Larger and better equipped, it has four German-made K-18 105mm cannons equipped with armor-piercing shells, which can cause major blows to warships and are used to block the river, and eight German-made 88mm anti-aircraft guns are used for air defense.

Wulong Mountain is about one kilometer away from the Yangtze River. From the bottom of the mountain to the riverside, the circular area is Longtan Town. Wulong Mountain provides artillery support for Longtan Town, and Longtan Town guards the land passage of Wulong Mountain.

During the battle that day, the Japanese army suddenly used human shield tactics, causing the Longtan town defenders to be caught off guard. In addition, the commander neglected his duties, causing Longtan town to fall quickly, and Wulong Mountain was immediately surrounded by the Japanese army. Shen Fazao, the commander of the defenders Fleeing, but a large part of the officers and soldiers of the Wulong Mountain garrison refused to give up their positions and stayed in Wulong Mountain, and some of the Longtan Township garrison also withdrew to the Wulong Mountain position, making the Wulong Mountain garrison a "hodgepodge" at this time .

According to statistics, there were more than 99 officers and soldiers in the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment of the 3200th Division of the Longtan Township Army. The 1000th Regiment of the 600rd Brigade of the 500th Division of the Mountain Defense Army originally had more than 99 officers and soldiers, more than 3 were killed or missing, more than 6 people were evacuated, and 3000 people remained on Wulong Mountain.

It is worth mentioning that the more than 1000 officers and soldiers who evacuated from the Wulong Mountain defenders did not all flee in fear of the battle. Most of them evacuated with the regiment leader Shen Fazao without knowing the reason. More than 500 of the more than 500 officers and soldiers of the Longtan Township who withdrew to Wulong Mountain were wounded. The remaining officers and soldiers were anxious to save their injured siblings. The brothers went to Wulong Mountain, so there are currently more than 3100 officers and soldiers on Wulong Mountain, and more than 700 wounded soldiers (more than [-] of them are wounded soldiers of the Wulong Mountain garrison).

The current scale of the Wulong Mountain garrison is at the regiment level, but there is no regiment-level officer, because the main officers are basically killed, injured or withdrawn. The officers and soldiers were at a loss and sent a telegram to the division commander Li Yutang in Nanjing. Li Yutang replied: "Whoever has the highest military rank among you will be in command. Believe in your own ability, seize the opportunity, and do your best for the country!"

The officers and soldiers hurriedly carried out internal screening and found that the highest rank was a lieutenant colonel, but he fell among the wounded and was unable to command the troops, followed by three majors. One of the three belonged to the artillery, the other to the engineer and the other to the infantry. Obviously, the artillery major and engineer major are not suitable for command. The two majors expressed their willingness to obey the infantry major. A captain named Luo Tingkang was elected as the deputy commander of the army. Li Xi was the captain. There were more than a dozen captains in the Wulong Mountain garrison, but he was the only one who was born as a staff officer, so he became the chief of staff of the garrison.

"The Japanese army actually dispatched cruisers to attack us. It seems that we are going to be one of the main targets here!" Li Xi said with emotion. The target of the attack is Wulong Mountain.

After the Japanese captured Longtan Town, although they opened up a land passage leading from the north to Nanjing, this passage was completely exposed to the fort attack range of Wulong Mountain, because the distance between Wulong Mountain and the Yangtze River was only one kilometer, and the Japanese army could only pass through this A one-kilometer-wide range rushed from the north to Nanjing City. Naturally, the Japanese army passed through this road, and the shells of Wulongshan Fort kept falling on their heads.

When Longtan Town fell, Chen Kefei called the Wulongshan Fort to provide fire reinforcements. The commander of the Wulongshan Fort, Major Zhang Chao, raised his binoculars and saw it clearly. The people of our country, how can I carry out artillery coverage? If the artillery fires, won’t it kill a large number of our people and our own brothers?” At the same time, Zhang Chao received another report that a mechanized Japanese army was breaking through the defense line of Longtan Town. Rapidly passed the road at the foot of Wulong Mountain and rushed towards Nanjing City. Zhang Chao hurriedly ordered the fort to bombard the road at the foot of the mountain with all his strength. A precious tank and more than 5 cars full of supplies were blown to pieces.

This artillery attack strengthened the belief of Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki, head of the 5th Division, that "the Wulong Mountain Fortress must be removed, otherwise the northern passage to Nanjing will not be open".

When Luo Long and Li Xi were worried while watching the Japanese cruisers on the Yangtze River, Luo Tingkang walked over quickly: "Let me tell you some bad news first, Zhang Jinglu's scouts just sent a report that Wulong Mountain is just north and northeast. , within two to four kilometers to the east, there are six heavy artillery positions of the Japanese army, with a total of about 150 heavy artillery pieces, half of which are 120mm howitzers, and a small half are [-]mm howitzers, and the muzzles of the guns are all facing us at Wulong Mountain!"

Both Luo Long and Li Xi couldn't help but smile wryly: "Fuck! The devil really thinks highly of us!" Li Xi asked, "What's the good news?"

Luo Tingkang said expressionlessly: "There is no good news!"

Li Xi felt as if he was out of breath: "Then what did you say 'bad news'?"

"I mean, just the first bad news!"

"...So, what about the second bad news?"

"The second bad news is that one-fifth of the Japanese army's heavy artillery group is the Type 240 [-]mm heavy howitzer just transferred from its homeland, and the number exceeds [-]!"

"Hey..." Both Luo Long and Li Xi smiled wryly again.

"Report!" Li Zhiyuan, the deputy battalion commander of the first battalion formed temporarily, ran over panting, "The devils sent envoys to persuade them to surrender!" He pulled over a timid middle-aged farmer dressed as a commoner.

The farmer lowered his head, evidently immersed in great panic: "Seniors of the national army...the imperial army...no, the devil said, they will let go of the western passage of Wulong Mountain for three hours, so that you can safely evacuate from Wulong Mountain. Longshan, complete the peaceful handover. The devil general said that he will never ambush you or sneak attack you during these three hours with his honor as a soldier. As long as you give up Wulong Mountain, you can safely retreat to Nanjing City! "

Luo Tingkang said coldly: "An army that uses civilians as hostages and human shields has the face to mention military honors! It's ridiculous! I have heard that this fifth division is called the 'Steel Army'. I really want to see this so-called Is the 'Steel Army' really made of steel!"

Li Xi looked at the farmer and said gently: "My fellow, we will not give up our position, our chief was shot because he gave up his position.

Don't go to the devil's side, you might not be able to come back!"

The farmer said gratefully and fearfully: "No, boss, my wife and children are in the hands of those beasts! They have already said that if I don't go back, they will kill my wife and children!"

Li Xi sighed, not knowing what to say.

"Tell Itagaki Seishiro!" Luo Tingkang replied, "He should have died at the gunpoint of the Chinese soldiers six and a half years ago. It is his luck to live until now. Now, we will eat him six and a half years ago." Give him that late gun!" (Seishiro Itagaki planned the September [-]th Incident with Wanji Ishihara six and a half years ago.

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"No!" Luo Long shook his head, "These three hours can actually be put to good use.

Wulong Mountain has been fully surrounded by the Japanese army, but we still have a large number of wounded soldiers stranded on the mountain, I think we can use this opportunity to send those wounded soldiers to Nanjing City!"

"Great idea!" Li Xi nodded, "Anyway, the Japanese don't keep their promises, so we can't do it either!"

The three of them hurried to the hospital for wounded soldiers located in the basement of the tunnel in the mountain, but the wounded soldiers were unwilling to leave.

The injured lieutenant colonel said: "We have more than 700 wounded soldiers. If you want to send us away, you will need to spend at least 500 troops. However, there are not many troops on the mountain. If you send us away with 500 soldiers, then what is the cost?" Can the 500 people come back again? There is no reason for the [-] people to go back to Wulong Mountain. Once they come back, the Japanese army will find that they have been fooled!"

The three of Luo Long thought about it, and they all felt that this was the truth. Finally, they replied to Itagaki Seishiro: "We will put the bullet that you were about to suffer in the northeast six and a half years ago into your body in this battle." In my head, to comfort my 3000 million compatriots in Northeast China!"

"The mantis is like a car, I don't know how to live or die!" Lieutenant General Sakagaki said coldly after receiving the reply, "Attack!"

The Japanese attack on Wulong Mountain did not concentrate its forces, but it concentrated its firepower. Following Lieutenant General Itagaki's order, more than ten Japanese warships (four light cruisers and the rest were destroyers), more than 200 heavy artillery pieces (including more than Thirty 240mm howitzers) and a larger number of infantry artillery, mountain artillery, mortars, grenades, and dozens of tanks, while launching a saturated carpet bombardment of Wulong Mountain, the firepower density Up to an average of three rounds per second.

In an instant, the surface of Wulong Mountain was turned upside down. The white snow that originally covered the mountain was replaced by black ashes and scorched earth in the blink of an eye. The small Wulong Mountain has become a veritable "volcano shrouded in fire".

When the Battle of Wulong Mountain broke out, the strength of the two sides was one to ten (the defenders deducted the wounded soldiers who could not participate in the battle, and the Japanese Fifth Division had been replenished, and the entire division was full of more than [-] people), and the firepower of both sides was It is more than one to thirty, and the Japanese army has an absolute advantage in heavy firepower.

With the firing of hundreds of Japanese artillery guns, the surface of Wulong Mountain was blown into scorched earth with no grass growing on it. Countless tornadoes gathered into a sandstorm sweeping across the whole mountain. Turned into powder, the officers and soldiers hiding in the tunnels inside the mountain were even more miserable. The typhoon-like shock wave made the officers and soldiers feel as if they were jostling in a small boat among the stormy waves, and everyone was shivering like chaff.

When Qu Yang, deputy battalion commander of the 1st Battalion, was talking to battalion commander Li Zhiyuan, his upper and lower teeth collided sharply. He accidentally bit his tongue and almost bit off half of it, making his mouth full of blood. Many officers and soldiers were smashed like Qu Yang Tongue, lips.

"Don't lie on your stomach! Squat! Squat!" The officers shouted hoarsely amidst the deafening explosion, "Open your mouth! Don't shut your mouth!" , the shock wave will enter the human body and damage the internal organs. At the same time, if the mouth is closed, the mouth and ear canal cannot be ventilated, and the air impacted by the shock wave will be violently poured into the ear and the eardrum will be broken.

In addition to shock waves, the Japanese artillery bombarded the officers and soldiers hiding in the tunnels in the mountain, and directly killed and wounded them.

The four Kuma-class light cruisers on the river kept firing armor-piercing projectiles. The projectiles penetrated the soil layer and exploded in the mountain. The killing effect was like destroying a submarine after a depth charge exploded in sea water. The officers and soldiers in the tunnel were all killed by bombing or shock.

When Luo Long passed through a tunnel, he saw a scene that made his heart ache: most of the tunnel collapsed and was destroyed. Among the rubble, dozens of soldiers were lying motionless, some were bloody and bloody, and some were intact but had seven orifices. bleed.

"The granary is on fire!" a soldier shouted hoarsely.

Luo Long hurried over in the tunnel where the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking. The basement where the grain was stored was billowing with smoke. A Japanese naval armor-piercing shell was shooting in impartially and exploded a ball of fire, igniting the grain inside. , the soldiers scrambled to put out the fire, but more than half of the food was still burned.

Heartbreaking howls came from the basement hospital continuously. The wounded soldiers were already weak, and under the impact of the shock wave, life was worse than death. Many wounded soldiers were biting the sheets or towels in extreme pain. Desperately endured, some wounded soldiers were shaken to death alive, their mouths were covered with rags, and the bitten sheets or towels were all bitten to pieces.

Li Xi, who was at the exit of the tunnel of the hospital, suddenly heard continuous gunshots coming from inside, he hurried in in shock, and found a dozen wounded soldiers laying in a pool of blood, all of whom were shot to death with pistols , the murderer was the lieutenant colonel.

"Are you crazy? How could you kill your own brother!" Li Xi was terrified and furious.

The lieutenant colonel smiled bitterly and said: "They want me to shoot, they can't stand it anymore, let me relieve them.

In addition, it can also save medicines.

The lightly wounded can still participate in the battle after first aid, but the seriously wounded can no longer participate in the battle for a long time, and continuing to treat will waste limited medicine, including me!" He was holding a cane in his left hand because his left leg had been injured in the previous battle. The bullet was interrupted, he raised the pistol with his right hand, knelt on the ground and pulled the trigger to his temple facing the wounded soldiers he killed.

Richie couldn't help but burst into tears.

"The Japanese army is attacking!" The guard soldiers rushed into the tunnel and shouted hissingly.

The Japanese army did not wait for the bombardment to be accepted before charging, but started charging while bombarding. Although this action would cause some soldiers who charged too far to be killed by their own artillery fire, it could maximize the shielding effect of the artillery fire. Play to the top.

"Fight! Prepare to fight!" roared the officers.

Li Xi looked at the wounded soldiers who sacrificed themselves, and whispered: "Brothers, we will not let you down!"

The fierce battle that changed the color of the mountains and rivers broke out immediately.

Chapter 300 Furious City (10)

Jiang Weiguo's behavior of changing history caused the fate of countless people to be changed because of him. Countless people who would have died survived because of him, countless people who would not have died because of him, and a large number of people died because of him. And when he flexed his muscles on the stage of history, a large number of people were eclipsed on the stage of history because of him. There were both Chinese and foreigners. Naturally, the most foreigners were Japanese, and Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was one of them. .

Lieutenant General Itagaki and Wanji Ishihara were called "the wisdom of Ishihara and the courage of Itagaki" in the Japanese army, because Waner Ishihara was resourceful and Lieutenant General Itagaki was courageous, ruthless, daring to think and act. Some people compare Lieutenant General Itagaki with Hideki Tojo, thinking that Hideki Tojo is like a razor, sharp and cold, while Lieutenant General Itagaki is like a weight, calm and violent.

In fact, Lieutenant General Itagaki did not earn his name in vain. The September 5th Incident was successful in one fell swoop thanks to Ishihara Wanji's plan and his specific implementation. In the original history, he had only one division in the Taiyuan Battle The military force of the (20th Division) took the initiative to storm the [-] Chinese army and won a complete victory.

However, on the Nanjing battlefield at this time, because of the "butterfly effect" brought by Jiang Weiguo, Lieutenant General Itagaki's "brilliance" did not reappear. On the contrary, he suddenly fell into the abyss of the trough that made him feel the most desperate in the 35 years since he joined the army. middle.

Not only the Japanese, but many Chinese are also wondering why Jiang Weiguo's troops are so fierce and capable of fighting?The reason is actually very simple, because - this is Jiang Weiguo's troops.

At this time, the Chinese were very afraid or even afraid of the Japanese, but Jiang Weiguo was not afraid or afraid at all, because his thoughts belonged to later generations. Few Chinese in later generations would be afraid or afraid of the Japanese, and Jiang Weiguo knew that Japan was doomed to fail. So he looked down on the Japanese even more. With this psychological advantage, Jiang Weiguo could always maintain a high fighting spirit and an invincible fighting spirit when fighting the Japanese army. The colleagues around him, the officers and soldiers under him, and at the same time, Jiang Weiguo successfully defeated the Japanese many times, further convincing his colleagues and subordinates that "following Jiang Weiguo, we will definitely be able to defeat the Japanese" and "Jiang Weiguo even dared to fight against the Japanese." On the front line, we have nothing to hesitate."

Just like a passage in the later novel "Bright Sword": Any army has its own tradition, what is the tradition?Tradition is a kind of temperament and a kind of character. This temperament and character are often determined by the temperament and character of the first military chief when the army was formed. He injected soul into the army.

...As the saying goes, "a nest of raging bears", conversely, if the general is a lion, even if the soldiers are sheep, they will be driven to have the spirit of a lion. In fact, this is also Napoleon's phrase "a group of sheep led by a lion Can defeat a group of lions led by a sheep".

There is no doubt that Jiang Weiguo is the true founder of the Nanjing Army. His temperament and character of "no fear of Japan" and his series of effective measures have made the Nanjing Army almost completely reborn in terms of mental outlook. Possesses the bloody courage to fight the Japanese army to the death.

"Baga! What are you doing? Why don't you fight?" Lieutenant General Itagaki grabbed a major squadron leader.

This is the scene on the battlefield ten days after the eruption of the Wulong Mountain Battle. The Major Squadron Captain who was captured by Lieutenant General Itagaki was completely lost. Rather than snarling and questioning him sternly, it is better to say that he is making an unreasonable and powerless questioning.

The unbelievable battle situation made Lieutenant General Itagaki personally supervise the battle in a rage. When he found this major squadron leader on the battlefield, he felt as incredible as discovering an alien, because he could not believe it. An expression of despair that would never exist in the Japanese army, especially the Fifth Division known as the "Steel Army".