I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Grand Master Nakazawa stood at attention solemnly: "Hay! Your Excellency, Commander, please rest assured, I will definitely complete the task!"

Lieutenant General Nakajima nodded, and then hurriedly moved to Yuzuikou with some staff officers, a squadron of guards, and some troops.

Yuzuikou is on the bank of the Yangtze River, next to the Dashengguan Fortress.

The reason why Lieutenant General Nakajima wanted to retreat to Yuzuikou was of course not to "organize the last line of defense", but to prepare for his own escape. He thought very clearly that if the division's outer defense line collapsed, plus the 17th Division If the rescue is not timely, the division can only retreat to the Yangtze River. Since it will retreat sooner or later, it is better to take the first step; Escape on a naval warship when the tide is over.

There are [-] soldiers in the Nanjing Army. The lower the rank, the more determined to die in Nanjing for the country. The higher the rank, the more impure the mind. People are like this. They have nothing. Naturally, they dare to fight. Young age, low status, The more daring to fight, the more dedicated to the country, but the older and the higher the status, the more depressed and conservative, no longer dedicated to the country, and more to consider their own gains and losses. This is the case with the Nanjing Army, and the Japanese army is also like this In this way, although the proportions are different, the reason is the same. Almost all the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army at the grassroots level are outlaws full of bushido spirit. Most of the high-level generals are not cowards, but there are still cowards, such as Lieutenant General Nakajima.

The division headquarters of the 16th Division was set up in Cradle Village, five kilometers east of Dashengguan. The village is located under a small hill called Zhushantou. Peeping at the Cradle Village where Big Yu had left, the eyes of the three leading officers were all shining with hot light.

These three officers were all wearing genuine Japanese uniforms, not only them, but the more than 300 officers and soldiers behind them were all dressed in Japanese uniforms, each with a 28-style rifle, the machine gunner carried a light machine gun with a crooked handle, and the gunner carried a What is used is the [-]-type grenade, but some officers and soldiers have hidden MP-[-] submachine guns.

This army is full of "Japanese taste", and this smell is exuded from the inside out, but they are part of the Nanjing Army.

"It's here!" Lu Xinrong, the commander of the 417th Special Operations Battalion, put down his binoculars, his teeth chattering with excitement.

"Damn it! Nakajima Kinesao, wait for me to pick your head off!" Deputy Battalion Commander Gu Xunzhi was also very excited.

"Bing Zuo, deputy seat, our 417 troops have been supported by the second son with good food and drink, but we haven't really put our efforts into it. The current battle is our first shot of "If you don't make a sound, you will be a blockbuster"!" Chief of Staff Zhang Peng's eyes lit up with excitement.

"You're right! You're right!" Lu Xinrong raised his binoculars again with trembling hands, "Whether our Unit 417 will become famous in one battle or not depends on the next battle!"

Chapter 310 Iron Counterattack (7)

"How could this be? Isn't it fighting in the north? Why is there such a high-intensity fighting in the south?"

"This is impossible! How could the No.16 division be so vulnerable? How could the Chinese Army have so many tanks?"

"What's going on? Could it be that we were deceived by the Chinese army?"

After the 16th Division was outflanked by the Nanjing Army's counterattack forces at Dasheng Pass and fell into a tight siege, the Japanese army on the Nanjing battlefield was in chaos. I found that I had been fooled by the Nanjing Army. The Nanjing Army, which was attacking the 5th Division on the Wulongshan battlefield in the north, was actually a smoke bomb. The real mechanized troops of the Nanjing Army were actually on the Dashengguan battlefield in the south. The army played a beautiful trick of "Xiangzhuang Sword Dance, Aiming at Pei Gong", which abruptly deceived the Japanese army into a circle.

Most of the mobile forces of the Japanese army were lured to the northern battlefield, leaving the southern battlefield empty, and then the Nanjing Army took advantage of it.

Dashengguan was isolated on the periphery of the main battlefield in Nanjing, and the 16th Division that besieged Dashengguan was naturally not close to other Japanese troops, which gave the Nanjing Army a valuable time difference. The head of the regiment, Lieutenant General Nakajima Konzago, was weak-willed and depressed, and the mechanized units of the Nanjing Army were making rapid progress. Therefore, when General Matsui and other high-level Japanese troops suddenly realized, the 16th Division was completely besieged on all sides.

"Return to the No.16 Division immediately!" After recovering from his senses, General Matsui issued an order hoarsely. Having spent so much money and effort, we would never do a loss-making business. It is not the goal of the Nanjing Army to defeat and repel the 16th Division. The Nanjing Army wants to wipe out the division.

Thinking that the 101st Division, which once belonged to his unit, had been wiped out in Shanghai, if another division under his command was wiped out in an organized manner, General Matsui would have to be terrified. He knew that he would never be able to afford this. consequences and responsibilities.

The Japanese troops who had already arrived at the Wulongshan battlefield or were rushing to the Wulongshan battlefield rushed back to help Dashengguan.

On the bloody Wulongshan battlefield, Lieutenant General Itagaki looked at a "China Army tank" that his subordinates had just dragged back from the battlefield, a car chassis, a The tank shell made of wood, the car has been blown up, and the wooden shell is also torn apart in the explosion and fire, but the original appearance can still be seen.

"The imperial army was actually used by the Chinese army so..." Lieutenant General Itagaki tried his best to restrain the boiling emotions in his heart, "Such a simple and low-level trick to deceive people around?" He felt unbelievable, and it was even more difficult to accept. Anger, followed by shame, and finally desolation and bitterness.

In order to ensure the success of this "Sound from the North to the South" counterattack, the Nanjing Army has indeed spent a lot of money. Although it clearly knows that the counterattack against Longtan Town is not worth the loss, the Nanjing Army has invested more than 5 troops in total. The 5000th Division, including more than [-] veterans and nearly [-] militiamen, fought bloody battles for more than two hours, because the tanks were basically fake and the heavy artillery firepower was insufficient. , More than [-] people were injured in the battle, the veteran casualty rate was about [-]%, and the militia casualty rate was as high as [-]%. The battlefield was full of scattered remains of officers and soldiers and scattered wooden tanks.

Li Yutang, who commanded the battle, said very emotionally: "Those militiamen are obviously inferior to the veterans in terms of combat skills, but their courage, spirit, and belief in seeing death as home are on the same level as the veterans.

I am in awe of these militiamen who only put on their uniforms, received their weapons, and received temporary training after the outbreak of the Nanjing Battle.

The Nanjing Army is not 20, but [-]!"

The troops on the North Route paid more than 16 casualties, and caused more than [-] casualties to the Japanese Army. At the same time, they successfully paralyzed the Japanese Army with a large amount of blood, successfully diverted the attention of the Japanese Army and the sight of the war, and provided the troops on the South Route like a broken bamboo. The huge breakthrough that completely surrounded the [-]th Division made significant and direct support.

Three hours after the start of the battle, that is, at 11:5 p.m., the Nanjing Army’s initial combat objectives had been completed, and its combat intentions had also been revealed. On the southern battlefield, a large number of Japanese troops rushed to aid. On the northern battlefield, the 5th Division switched from offensive to defensive , Returning to defense across the board, and the 15th Division, which originally assisted the [-]th Division in defending Longtan Town, also began to retreat after leaving a reinforced wing to fill the loopholes in Dashengguan. However, the battle in the northern battlefield has not been extinguished.

"This is the Wulong Mountain Fortress! We are still fighting! Ask for reinforcements! Ask for reinforcements!" Du Yuming, who was about to lead his troops to evacuate, kept receiving new signals on his radio station.

"Are you the defenders of the Wulong Mountain Fortress?" Du Yuming hurriedly contacted the other party, "I am Du Yuming, commander of the 77st Brigade of the 771th Division. Who are you?"

"I am Li Xi, Chief of Staff of the Wulong Mountain Fortress!" In a basement of the Wulong Mountain Fortress, which is only more than two kilometers away from Du Yuming, Li Xi was so excited that he almost burst into tears, "Du Luzuo, please help us Let's go! We really can't hold it anymore!"

Du Yuming said concisely: "How many people do you have now? How about the ammunition? How about the supplies?"

Li Xi quickly replied: "Including the slightly wounded, there are about 800 people who can still fight, and about 1200 people who are seriously injured. The ammunition can last for about two days. The supplies are extremely scarce. In addition, there are more than 10000 civilians here, basically old and weak, women and children, and more than 3000 of them were injured!"

"So many civilians?" Du Yuming was surprised.

"The devil played with that dirty trick and brought in three batches, totaling more than 13000 people. These civilians bravely helped us fight or directly participated in the battle. More than 3000 of them died for the country!" Li Xi's voice was full of bitterness, "Mr. Du , we are soldiers, it is only right and proper to die for the country, and we all plan to die in Wulong Mountain, but... there are more than 1 civilians, we really can't bear them to die here with us!"

Du Yuming was very distressed when he heard it: "Wait a minute! I will ask the officer for instructions immediately!" He immediately contacted Li Yutang by radio, and told Li Yutang the situation of Wulong Mountain and the requirements of the defenders of Wulong Mountain in detail.

After Li Yutang listened, he sighed in a low voice: "Xing, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

It is not the soldiers who suffer the most in war, but the common people! "

Major General Situ Fei, the chief of staff of the North Army, looked at Li Yutang: "Mr. Li, are you going to save him?"

Li Yutang looked at Situ Fei, and the two of them knew each other well: the real battlefield is in the south, and the task of the northern army is to launch a "powerful feint". Three hundred, self-defeating one thousand" battle, turned from offense to defense, and retreated to the Qixia Mountain area. The Japanese army was also busy rescuing the southern battlefield, unable to pursue or counterattack on the northern battlefield. Both sides retreated, and the war was over. Now, Wulongshan Fortress asked for help, and Wulongshan Fortress was surrounded by Longtan Town. In other words, Wulongshan Fortress was inside the defense zone of the Japanese 5th Division. "Kill three hundred enemies, and lose one thousand yourself."

Therefore, in order to rescue the more than 1 civilians, the Nanjing Army conservatively estimated that 1 officers and soldiers would be killed or injured, and [-] precious combatants would be "exchanged" for more than [-] old and weak women and children who were helpless. People are equal, but on the Nanjing battlefield at this time, this is indeed an extremely "uneconomical" exchange.

To defend Nanjing, soldiers are needed. Although civilians can also play a role, they are young and middle-aged men. The more than 1 civilians in Wulong Mountain are old people, women, and children.

"Sir..." Situ Fei said with difficulty, "From the bottom of my heart, if there are only a thousand soldiers on Wulong Mountain, there is no need to rescue them. I support rescue, as a soldier, I do not support rescue!"

Li Yutang smiled wryly: "Give me the number of Second Young Master!"

Jiang Weiguo was in the underground headquarters of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters. The scene was brightly lit, full of voices, telephones rang one after another, and telegrams were sent and received one after another. Hundreds of senior officers, staff officers, and communications officers were busy performing their duties at the scene. Some were repeatedly calculating, discussing, and researching in front of the map and sand table, some were holding the phone to answer reports or pass various orders, and some were trotting in and out with documents and materials.

In the busyness, Jiang Weiguo, who is the core figure, is the most leisurely. He is motionless with a cigarette in a corner of the conference hall, just watching and listening seriously, because he knows that he is not a military strategist. "Historical Cheating" gives strategic guidance, and if he is really asked to actually command a battle, he is definitely not that material. Instead of directing blindly by himself, it is better to let those professionals do it.

"Mr. Li's phone number!" Liu Fengling walked quickly to Jiang Weiguo with a telephone, and dragged the telephone line for more than ten meters, "The defenders of the Wulong Mountain Fortress are asking for support. Help them remove more than 1 old, weak, women, children and civilians from Wulong Mountain!"

Jiang Weiguo's heart skipped a beat, he collected himself and picked up the phone.

"Assistant seat, it's me!" Li Yutang said on the other end of the phone.

"I know what happened!" Jiang Weiguo whispered.

"Deputy attendant..." Li Yutang's voice also became low, "We don't know what to do, please decide!"

"What about your personal attitude?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

"We...how could we not want to save? Soldiers, they are supposed to protect the common people, but...but..." Li Yutang's voice became deeper and deeper, "but..." He said several times "but ", and then couldn't go on.

Jiang Weiguo didn't speak, he fell into the thought of being unable to make a choice. After a full minute, he sighed: "Save if you can!" He knew that his decision might be "irrational", but he achieved "humanity". .

In peacetime, rationality is human nature, but in wartime, rationality and human nature are often in conflict.

Jiang Weiguo cannot give up humanity for the sake of rationality, because this is his nature.

On Qixia Mountain, Li Yutang looked at the communication soldiers beside him: "Send a report, rescue the defenders of Wulong Mountain Fortress!"

At the same time, Jiang Weiguo thought over and over in the headquarters. Of course he knew that this rescue operation would cost a lot of blood of officers and soldiers. Now that the order had been issued, the military order was like a mountain and could not be changed overnight, so he tried his best to find ways to reduce some blood.

"Heavy artillery and tanks are not acceptable. All that can move have been sent to the battlefield of Dashengguan. Warships? Not at all. Wulong Mountain is downstream of Xiaguan Pier, and the Yangtze River Fleet can only operate upstream of Xiaguan Pier. Then...aircraft? "Jiang Weiguo's heart moved, "The Air Force now has a batch of bombers. I originally hid them as a trump card and waited to bomb the No.16 Division tomorrow morning. Or... use it now? Deploy ten and twenty It shouldn’t be a problem, right? It won’t reveal the secret that I already have hundreds of bombers in my hands, but the night bombing...is too difficult..." He made up his mind but hesitated, "Contact first Let’s go to the air force! If the air force can do it, it’s the best, but if it can’t... oh! I’ve tried my best!"

The Chinese Air Force originally did not have a truly established bomber force, because in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Air Force took the route of "fighter first" or even "fighter only". Excluding transport aircraft, more than 40% of the Chinese Air Force's aircraft were There are very few fighter jets and bombers. Although there were dozens or nearly a hundred of them, they were all exhausted in the brutal battles. Therefore, basically there is no such thing as a "bomber brigade", and they are all organized into "bomber squadrons". And it belongs to the fighter brigade. At present, Germany sent a large number of fighter jets to Jiang Weiguo. Zhou Zhirou naturally set up a bomber brigade according to local conditions, a total of four, two horizontal bomber brigades, two dive bomber brigades, each brigade has about [-] bombers At the same time, it is equipped with [-] or [-] fighters to cooperate with each other and is responsible for protecting the bombers in the air.

There are two large airports in Nanjing, one is Dajiaochang Airport and the other is Ming Palace Airport, both of which are in the city. These two airports are also important channels for the city of Nanjing to communicate with the outside world. Fighters are usually stationed there. At this time, bombers have been added. One bomber The brigade was divided into two parts and stationed at the two airports. The captain of the brigade was the famous pilot Tong Yanbo.

After receiving Jiang Weiguo's order, Tong Yanbo hesitated: "It's nighttime, and the weather is bad. The sky is covered with dark clouds and light rain. The visibility is almost zero. The bombing is very difficult and dangerous..."

Chen Xichun, the captain of the No. [-] Squadron of the brigade, couldn't help but stand up: "Captain! Fighting is inherently very dangerous! How can there be a non-dangerous battle? We Air Force pilots are also soldiers. Buried in the belly of a fish, the Air Force will aim to fall into the sky! Captain, I volunteer!" He looked at his squadron companions beside him, "Who else?"

"Me!" "Me!" "And me!" "I'll sign up too!" None of the pilots in the squadron flinched.

Tong Yanbo was very moved: "I am very touched and respected that you have this spirit, but what about technical problems?"

Chen Xichun said without fear: "The straight-line distance from our airport to Longtan Town is less than [-] kilometers. It's a joke not to dare to fly even such a distance! We fly at low altitude and let the ground troops launch every one kilometer. A bunch of flares guide us like a street lamp, and there is no problem in bombing the Japanese army with precision!"

Tong Yanbo took a deep breath and nodded heavily: "Okay! I approve!"

The "Wulongshan Great Rescue" that broke out in the north of Nanjing City can be called a tragic battle. In fact, this battle was unnecessary. There are more than 1 civilians who "have almost no role in the war", but the officers and soldiers must do this, because the more than 1 civilians are their compatriots, and they are the objects they should protect.

Amidst the angry shouts of killing, the North Road troops, which had been urgently replenished, reached 8000 people (most of them were militiamen. Li Yutang did this for two reasons. One is that half of the veterans of the Nanjing Army , the mobile forces that could be squeezed out were all transferred to the Dashengguan battlefield. He had nowhere to deploy veterans, so he could only use the militia. The second reason is needless to say, losing the militia is naturally "better" than losing the veterans) towards Longtan Town A strong attack was launched again, guns were like raindrops, explosions were like thunder, and the officers and soldiers rushed forward one after another, charging desperately.

The battle of the Nanjing Army was unnecessary, so Lieutenant General Itagaki was taken aback by the accidental attack. He had judged that the Nanjing Army would not launch an attack on the northern battlefield again, so the Nanjing Army made this move It was a big surprise for him. He felt that this was an abnormal move. Since it was an abnormal move, there must be a ghost in it, so Lieutenant General Itagaki was caught off guard at first. He was deeply afraid that he would fall into the trap of the Nanjing Army again, so he did not A very active countermeasure was adopted, only allowing the troops to defend passively, and at the same time mobilized part of the troops to strengthen the defense of the rear and two wings of the division.

Lieutenant General Itagaki did this because he was worried that the Nanjing Army was playing the trick of "Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, with the intention of Pei Gong".

"Brothers! Let's go!" Inside Wulong Mountain Fortress, Luo Long raised his arms and shouted, "Protect the people and leave!"

There are a total of more than 16000 Chinese soldiers and civilians on Wulong Mountain, including more than 3100 regular army officers and soldiers, and more than 700 of them were wounded soldiers before the war, and the other 13000 were civilians in southern Jiangsu who were driven over by the Japanese army in batches; There were more than 2000 people left, of which more than 1200 were seriously injured, and more than half of the remaining 800 people were lightly wounded. More than 3000 civilians died, and there were more than 10000 people left, of which more than 3000 were injured.

In fact, in the late stage of the battle, civilians had assumed the main force of the Wulongshan Fortress, because the regular army had been exhausted. Usually, in a squad, the chief and deputy squad leaders were soldiers, and the rest of the "soldiers" were civilians with guns. They were basically young women, which made the Battle of Wulong Mountain later known as "the elegiac battle in which Chinese women directly participated in the War of Resistance and showed their spirit and courage to the world", but objectively speaking, among the Chinese women in Wulong Mountain So being so brave and fearless is largely "forced" by the Japanese army.

Wan Yuan described: "At this time, [-]% of the Chinese people were illiterate, and almost [-]% of the Chinese women were illiterate. In fact, the vast majority of women did not understand the principles of the country, the nation, and so on. They were fighting for the country on Wulong Mountain, but it was not very appropriate. They were forced to fight because they had nowhere to retreat. They were afraid that they would fall into the hands of the Japanese army, and they were full of fear of the Japanese army. The women whose family members died at the hands of the Japanese army hated the Japanese army, and they fought out of fear, hatred, and anger, and had nothing to do with national interests and righteousness of the nation!"

Not all of the more than 1 soldiers and civilians on Wulong Mountain left, and a third of them voluntarily stayed. Most of these people are old people. The old people basically see through life and death, and they don’t want to be soldiers anymore "If you want to kill the Japanese devils, just kill them!" An old man sighed, "I'm over 70 years old, I've lived long enough, and it's okay to die. I should have seen him long ago." Hades is gone.

Let's go, children!Take me, at least send another person to help me, don't bother!"

Luo Long, Luo Tingkang, Li Xi and other soldiers bid farewell to the old people in tears.

Among the common people in Wulong Mountain, many women and the elderly are actually in the relationship of father and daughter or daughter-in-law, and many children are in the relationship of grandfather and grandson or grandpa and grandson with the elderly. When the two parties parted, the whole Wulong Mountain cried loudly like rain.

A small number of these old people were massacred by the Japanese army, and most of them were ignored by the Japanese army. In the end, they basically died of freezing and starvation.

In addition to the elderly, there were more than 1000 young people who did not leave. Most of them were wounded, including soldiers and wounded women, and the rest were soldiers or women who were determined to die on Wulong Mountain.

Qu Yang, the deputy commander of the 1st Battalion, and Liang Changsheng, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, all died when they retreated, because Pan Feng, the commander of the 1st company of the 1st Battalion, and Xu Lei, the commander of the 2rd company of the 3nd Battalion, refused to leave. They each sat in a machine gun bunker, Pan Feng broke both legs, and Xu Lei's abdomen was blown apart by a Japanese shell. Because there was not enough medicine in the fortress (the civilian wounded consumed a lot of medicine), the wound was seriously infected.

"We can't do it anymore, just stay here! Kill a few little devils before you die, and buy you time to cover you!" The two said goodbye to their companions with a smile.

Immediately, Qu Yang and Liang Changsheng were heartbroken, because Pan Feng and Xu Lei, like them, were overseas Chinese who returned from the United States to participate in the War of Resistance.