I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Emperor Hirohito was furious like never before, even furious.

Under the emperor's "Longyan fury", Tokyo was no less than a major earthquake, and the entire Japanese military trembled.

Emperor Hirohito has always been hesitant and vacillating about the major event of "invasion of China". Of course, he is not because he loves peace, but because he is worried that the Great Japanese Empire in his hands will be lost due to the war.

Hirohito is not the kind of "closed doors and self-important king" of the later generations of North Korea's Jin Dynasty. He traveled to the Western powers in his early years and was well-informed. He deeply understood the huge gap in national power between Japan and the Western powers. The empire passed down to him by his grandfather and father can go one step further, but he is very worried that he will lose everything and lose everything if he is not careful, so he has always adopted a cautious attitude.

Hirohito knew that if Japan really annexed China, Japan's national power would inevitably skyrocket and become a real empire that could be on an equal footing with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom. But he also knows that it is not easy for Japan to annex China. China is too big. It would be the best if Japan could annex China quickly. In the quagmire, Japan's limited national strength will be continuously consumed in the long war. In addition, the western powers will certainly not sit back and watch Japan annex China smoothly. The western powers also know how powerful Japan is after annexing China, and will treat themselves It poses a great threat, so it must intervene.

Out of the goal of making Japan more and more powerful, Hirohito wanted to annex China, but he was afraid that Japan would fall into the quagmire of war, and that Western powers would interfere or even attack Japan in groups, so he was always hesitant about this major matter Yes, he basically neither strongly opposes nor firmly supports the military's strategy, actions, and plans to actively invade China, and adopts a subtle noncommittal attitude.

For horizontal comparison, Hirohito was neither opposed nor supportive at the beginning of the Japanese war of aggression against China. In the original history, the Japanese army made rapid progress, and the Western powers only supported China verbally, but did not really intervene. Therefore, Hirohito Seeing the hope of "quickly annexing China", the appeasement policy of the Western powers also made him emboldened, so Hirohito is more and more inclined to support the invasion of China; at present, although the Western powers except Germany are basically still against China. The Sino-Japanese war took an attitude of watching from the other side, but the Japanese army made slow progress on the Chinese battlefield and paid a huge price, which hit Hirohito's confidence. At the same time, Hirohito's dissatisfaction and even disgust with the military grew day by day.

Hirohito clearly remembered that General Sugiyama Moto, the Minister of War, had sworn in front of him that "China would be settled within three months", but what about the facts?The war has been going on for seven months, but it is still not over, and the overall situation is completely unfavorable to Japan. The area along the river in the south of Jiangsu Province, but Hirohito couldn't bear the price.

Hirohito recalled that after the Japanese finally captured Shanghai, seeing that three months had passed, Gen Sugiyama and other high-ranking military officials hurriedly assured him that "Nanjing will be captured soon, and as long as Nanjing is captured, the Chinese government will immediately collapse, the great cause of the empire's conquest of China will be a matter of course", and the result?The Japanese army had already killed and injured a full 20 people under the city of Nanjing. Once again, a division was wiped out in a heavy defeat and extreme humiliation, but the Japanese army was still blocked outside the city of Nanjing.

Hirohito clearly remembered that after the 101st Division was completely wiped out by the Chinese army in Shanghai and two military flags were seized, in extreme shock and anger, he severely reprimanded the high-ranking Japanese army for "arrogance and underestimation of the enemy, and carelessness". The army has suffered unprecedented losses and shame", demanding that "the army will never have the shameful incident of annihilation of even one regiment and the capture of the military flag", Sugiyama Moto and other high-level military officials hastily promised that "it will never happen again." This kind of thing", now?The 16th Division was wiped out again, and two more military flags were captured. Nakajima Kinego, the commander of the Lieutenant General Division of the Imperial Army, was captured without committing suicide, and was executed by the Chinese army in public.

After learning about this, Hirohito was filled with anger, and he thought bitterly: The Imperial Army of Japan and the Empire of Japan really lost face!

Not only the army is so embarrassing, but the navy is also disgraced. The battleship Mutsu is still in the hands of the Chinese army at this time, becoming a spoil of war for the Chinese army and evidence of showing off its might.

"Shame! What a shame!" Hirohito couldn't take it anymore.

Hirohito has actually done a lot of research in the military. He has become less and less convinced of the beautified reports of the military and the nonsense of reporting good news but not bad news. The conclusion that does not admit: the difficulty of Japan’s conquest of China is far greater than its own estimation before the war. Even without the intervention of Western powers, although Japan’s conquest of China is not hopeless, the road is dauntingly difficult and the process is too complicated to predict , As for the time, financial resources, manpower, etc. that need to be spent, it is an extremely huge number, which is very likely to exceed the bottom line of Japan's national power. It was a victory in the name, but it caused Japan to recover from a setback.

"Changes must be made!" Yuren made up his mind angrily and irritably, "If you continue to act blindly and recklessly like this, you will only get deeper and deeper, and you will end up riding a tiger. While there is still room for maneuver in the current situation, you must make changes, and you can't go on like this! If this continues, it will harm the country! You must be cautious, rational, and calm..." He thought for a while, his heart moved, and he told his attendants, "What is the name of the German who came to Tokyo last time? Oh, his name is Karl. Haushofer? Pass him into the palace, I want to have a talk with him!"

On February 2th, under Hirohito's angry reprimand, the Minister of the Army, General Sugiyama Moto, was dismissed and transferred to the military council. In fact, he was sent to sit on the bench. General Matsui Iwane, the commander-in-chief of the "Central China Front Army" in Libao, was also removed from his post and transferred to the cabinet as a councilor. In fact, he was also sitting on the bench.

After discussion, out of balance considerations, Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro, the Deputy Minister of the Army, was appointed as the Minister of the Army, and Lieutenant General Tokyunomiya Toshihiko, the former Minister of Aviation Headquarters, was appointed as the Deputy Minister of the Army.

Umezu Yoshijiro belongs to the same "expansion school" as Sugiyama Moto in the strategy of invading China. However, compared with Sugiyama Moto's arrogance, rudeness, and brute courage, Umezu Yoshijiro is more shrewd. He supports the full-scale invasion of China because he also underestimated the war When the Japanese army was at a disadvantage on the battlefield of aggression against China, he immediately changed course and devoted himself to "implementing more ingenious and less labor-saving methods to solve the China issue." After the Battle of Nanjing lasted for more than a month, he stated that he did not support the continued attack Nanjing, therefore, Umezu Yoshijiro is a "more shrewd main combat faction". It is a compromise arrangement for him to be the Minister of Army. , As for Lieutenant General Hirohito Hirohito, the deputy minister of the army, he is a member of the Japanese royal family, Hirohito's uncle, and appointing him as the deputy minister of the army is obviously a means used by Hirohito to control the army. After all, the army has repeatedly let Hirohito Disappointment made Hirohito increasingly worried about the army.

As for the post of commander-in-chief of the Central China Front Army, Lieutenant General Hata Toshiroku, the former commander of the Fourth Army with a "cautious and prudent style", took over. The post of commander of the Fourth Army was recommended by the former 2nd Division Lieutenant General Neiji Okamura, the head of the regiment, took over, and the post of head of the 2nd Division was taken over by Lieutenant General Anan Yuji, director of the Army Provincial Personnel Bureau.

The meeting hall of the General Staff Headquarters, the high-level meeting of the Japanese Army.

The chief of staff, Prince Kanin Gongzaijin, was livid and silent. The new army minister, Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro, seemed cautious and did not speak. Facing this mess, no one would dare to say "" China will be resolved within three months," but the new Deputy Minister of the Army, Lieutenant General Higashikunimiya Toshihiko, took the role of spokesperson for the meeting with great vigor.

"War is just like doing business!" Lieutenant General Minhiko looked at Lieutenant General Hata Jun-liu, Lieutenant General Okamura Neiji and other front-line commanders recalled from the Nanjing front, "all pay attention to cost and benefit.

The cost is too great and the benefit is too small, so naturally there is no need to continue fighting the war.

The empire has invested countless costs in this war to resolve the China Incident, but the benefits are very unsatisfactory.

The army has built 10 new divisions, making the Imperial Army currently has 37 divisions and 8 independent brigades (excluding the 101st and 16th divisions that have been wiped out), maintaining such a large force and this The war has indeed strained the empire's national strength.

Gentlemen, we are different from China. The people of China went bankrupt to maintain the war, but we will not be reduced to that level.

If the fight is too ugly, even if you win, it is not enough to be happy.

His Majesty the Emperor..." King Minhiko paused, with a cold expression on his face, "I am deeply worried about his army, even disappointed.

The imperial army started the war enthusiastically, but was unable to end the war. This is a serious irresponsibility to the empire, and it has seriously failed the trust and great trust of His Majesty the Emperor.

It is impossible for the empire to devote all its national power to the war against China, and there is a bottom line for the investment cost, and the newly built 10 divisions are the final cost!" He added meaningfully, "Please remember, this is The Holy Will of His Majesty the Emperor.

If these 10 divisions are thrown into the China battlefield and still have no major, breakthrough, and overall situation-changing results, His Majesty the Emperor will really be completely disappointed in you, and the national policy of the empire will have to be carried out accordingly. Total change!"

Lieutenant General Hata Jun-six and others all felt their hearts heavy as iron.

"Your Excellency, Vice Minister!" Ishihara Wanji, who was sitting on the edge of the conference table, asked, "Is His Majesty the Emperor's holy will just asking me to wait to 'achieve a major, breakthrough, and change the overall situation'?"

Lieutenant General Renyan nodded slightly: "Of course!"

Ishihara Waner showed a strange smile: "That is to say, His Majesty the Emperor doesn't need me to take down Nanjing?"

Lieutenant General Renyan Wang narrowed his eyes: "If the capture of Nanjing can enable the Imperial Army to 'achieve major, breakthrough, and change the overall situation' results, of course we still have to fight, but if we don't fight, it will be more beneficial to the Imperial Army. The overall goal is not impossible.

As the saying goes, "The general will be outside, and the emperor's order will not be accepted." For the sake of the interests of the empire, His Majesty only cares about the result and does not care about the process. As for how to achieve the results His Majesty wants, how to judge the scale and proportion is precisely your responsibility. !"

Ishihara smiled knowingly: "I understand.

This is very good, very good!" He looked at Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro beside him.

Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro remained calm, thinking rapidly in his mind.

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace said slowly: "My lords, if this war ends in other ways (he said it very cryptically, in fact he alluded to the Sino-Japanese peace talks and armistice), it is inevitable that there will be an end to the war at the negotiating table." At that time, whoever has the initiative and advantage on the battlefield will have the upper hand.

It is of course ideal to defeat Nanjing. If it cannot be defeated, other things can be used to replace its military, political, and strategic value.

No matter how important Nanjing is, at best it is only worth the territory of a province. If the imperial army did not take Nanjing, but took down the vast areas of several provinces in China, the winner would still be the empire, not China.

With an isolated city in hand, but losing hundreds of thousands or even millions of square kilometers of fertile land, will Chiang Kai-shek not give in?Even if the war is ended in other ways, in such a situation, it is China that obeys the empire, not the empire obeys China!" The prince's eyes sparkled, "The empire is still invincible! "

Episode 319 Unprecedented Dangerous Situation

After this high-intensity local counterattack, the Nanjing Army, as Xiao Yao summed it up, "drained all its last vitality, and completely lost the ability to take the initiative to attack and conduct another partial counterattack."

Because of the serious shortage of troops, the Nanjing Army began to shrink the defense line. Both Tangshan Town and Longtan Town were captured by the Japanese Army. The Nanjing Army voluntarily gave up, and the Qixia Mountain defense line was also voluntarily abandoned by the Nanjing Army, and many other secondary positions were abandoned. In the end, the Nanjing Army still controlled the Pukou District in Jiangbei (the force was only concentrated in the core area of ​​Jiangpu Town, and the abandoned The main body of Nanjing City, Zijin Mountain, Mufu Mountain, Hongshan Mountain, Beigu Mountain, Yuhuatai, and the Dashengguan Fortress that cannot be abandoned although it is isolated outside.

Compared with the beginning of the Battle of Nanjing, the control area of ​​the Nanjing Army at this time has been reduced by about 40%, but this move ensures that the troop density and defense line strength are the same as at the beginning of the war.

In the city of Nanjing, there is unity and order.

The officers and soldiers of the regular army guarded their positions strictly, with all clothes and food, and ready for the next day. The militiamen of the reserve team either rotated the regular army or took the time to train hard. The workers in the factory worked hard in two shifts.

Ms. Minnie Vautrin, director of the school affairs office of Jinling Women's University, American missionary, and famous educator, wrote in her "Diary of Vautrin": "...Nanjing has become a banner that inspires Chinese soldiers and civilians It is a banner that fights against Japan and gives Chinese soldiers and civilians the confidence to win.

Nanjing is the frontline battlefield of the Sino-Japanese War, and there is no "one of them". It can be said that since the outbreak of the Nanjing Battle, the Japanese army has not carried out large-scale attacks in other places in China, and only carried out some attacks on Shandong Province, Shanxi Province. The scale, intensity, and influence of small-scale harassing and tentative attacks are insignificant compared with the Battle of Nanjing. The Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield devoted most of its power to capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing.

Nanjing, Nanjing, this is a city that the Chinese are proud of. It is worthy of its status as the capital. It is like a mountain and a wall, and it firmly resists the fierce attack of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.

Nanjing is the heart of China, which affects the whole of China all the time. The whole of China and the whole world are surprised to find that there are one after another good news coming from Nanjing. The heart of China is unyielding, It is beating vigorously and vigorously, continuously outputting fresh blood and vigorous vitality for the whole of China, and slowly awakening the long-sleeping giant of China.

Because of Nanjing, China continued to rejoice, the belief in the war of resistance to the end and the confidence in the victory of the war of resistance increased day by day, and the city of Nanjing was filled with fearless pride and courage.

In an underground military hospital, I saw with my own eyes a soldier who was seriously injured and died smiling. His face was full of no regrets and a happy smile. Before he died, he held the hands of his comrades-in-arms. ,'It's worth it!My life is worth it!The thing I don't regret the most in my life is to stay here, to defend our capital with you, and to kill those Japanese devils with all my heart, brothers, I'll go first," he said, closing his eyes with a smile.

This scene brought tears to my eyes as an outsider, and I felt this great spiritual power!"

After the great victory, the Nanjing Army immediately reorganized its army and prepared for battle without stopping. Everyone knows that the Japanese have always been narrow-minded and extreme, and they must repay their grievances. Large-scale retaliatory attack.

The officers and soldiers had no time to catch their breath, and immediately threw themselves into the full-scale defensive battle that was about to break out.

The development of the facts puzzled the whole Nanjing army. For several days in a row, the Japanese army besieging Nanjing City remained uncharacteristically motionless, neither attacking nor retreating in an all-round way, but maintaining the original posture, as if nothing had happened.

"Anomalies must have demons!" Jiang Weiguo had an uneasy premonition in his heart.

At this time, the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army consisted of 15 divisions (including 3 North Korean divisions), 3 heavy artillery brigades, and 2 mixed brigades (Taiwanese brigades). Although they had suffered 20 casualties, the Japanese The army has a complete reserve system, and the number of frontline troops will be replenished in a timely manner (this process will definitely take time). Therefore, these troops maintain an average of about 25% full strength, so the total strength of the Central China Front Army is still more than [-] Undoubtedly, this is a huge number, although the Japanese army killed and injured a large number of elite veterans (supplementary reserve soldiers must be more or less inferior to active soldiers in terms of combat effectiveness), and the Japanese army has been affected in terms of morale and confidence. It was a big setback, and the loss of military supplies was huge, but it must be admitted that the Japanese Army's Central China Front Army is still a very powerful military group. It's not impossible, after all, the Nanjing Army's elite veterans have lost [-]% (more than half of the wounded can return to the battlefield, but it takes time to recuperate), and the overall combat power is also gradually declining due to the loss.

Alexander von Falkenhausen commented very pertinently after the Nanjing counterattack: "Although the Nanjing Army has created a miracle, the overall combat power of the Nanjing Army has also been further reduced. It has lost 8000 people and wiped out 5000 enemies. 3 people, this ratio is not ideal in defensive operations. Generally speaking, the overall combat power of the Nanjing Army at this time is less than half of that at the beginning of the war. If the Japanese army continues to attack, it will be enough to pay about 5 casualties. Invade the city of Nanjing and pay about [-] casualties to basically occupy Nanjing.

However, the Japanese didn't hold out and I think they have lost confidence in winning!"

Because the Japanese army's flags and drums died down, Nanjing City and the Nanjing Army got a certain amount of rest time after the fierce battle, and the atmosphere in the city became much more relaxed.

Jiang Weiguo was exhausted a while ago, and it is rare for him to relax a little these days. He spends his days like this:

Waking up at six o'clock in the morning (actually he can't get up most of the time, he has to sleep until noon or even afternoon, the war makes his biological clock very chaotic), Jiang Weiguo lives in many places, sometimes he lives in an air-raid shelter on Zijin Mountain, sometimes Living in a certain basement in the city, sometimes living in Xuanwu Lake, sometimes living elsewhere, there are two reasons for this situation, one is to prevent being assassinated, so he often changes his residence, and the other is because he "There are many women"; after waking up, take a shower and eat breakfast. If there is time, go to the North Peak, the highest peak of Zijin Mountain. The North Peak is also the highest point in Nanjing City. It is made of a hundred-year-old tree on the mountain), and a flag-raising ceremony is held every morning (the flag does not fall, which means that the national flag has been flying in the sky of the capital. The flag-raising ceremony every morning is to lower the flag on the flagpole first, and then raise the flag again).

During the ceremony, the resounding "National Anthem of the Republic of China (Blue Sky, White Sun, Red Ground)" resounded throughout Nanjing through more than a dozen tweeters on the top of the mountain. The guard of honor slowly raised the national flag, saluted and fired guns. The atmosphere was solemn and solemn.

After attending the flag-raising ceremony, if there is official business to be done, Jiang Weiguo will handle it. If there is a meeting to attend, Jiang Weiguo will go to the meeting. Just go to "visit family members", and then, or go to the military hospital to comfort the wounded, or go to the front line for inspection, or go to other places for inspection, such as factories, or farms, fisheries, and breeding farms.

The Nanjing Army planted grain and raised poultry and livestock while fighting in Nanjing City. The reason is needless to say. The Nanjing Army must be prepared for long-term combat and must "rely on its own, have enough food and clothing."

This aspect is actually very knowledgeable.

The Battle of Nanjing broke out on December 1938, 12. The grain must be planted immediately. It is impossible to wait until the "spring is warm and the flowers are blooming" before planting.

The world's three major food crops, corn, wheat, and rice, are not suitable for planting in Nanjing at this time. Corn likes temperature, wheat cycle is too long, and rice likes high temperature and is not cold-resistant. In addition, due to temperature, geographical environment, natural conditions, etc. In terms of factors, sorghum, soybeans, broad beans, mung beans, millet, barley and other crops cannot be grown, so the Nanjing Army mainly grows potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, cabbage, leeks and other crops that are easy to grow and have a relatively short growth cycle.

On this important matter, Jiang Weiguo's "prophet" played a major role. In order to solve the problem of keeping crops warm in winter at that time, he specially ordered a large number of transparent plastic films from Germany for the construction of crops in Nanjing. Greenhouse, this method has greatly solved the problem of difficulty in growing grain in Nanjing in winter.

In addition to planting plants, the officers and soldiers also raised animals. Lakes and ponds in the Nanjing military-controlled areas such as Xuanwu Lake, Mochou Lake, and Zixia Lake were turned into shrimp ponds and fish ponds by Jiang Weiguo, and they were also used to raise ducks and geese. There are large and small chicken coops, pig pens, sheep pens, and cattle pens dotted around the lakes, and the sound of chickens crowing, pigs humming, sheep, baa, and cattle humming is constant all day long.

Although these former scenic spots have been turned into a miasma, it has indeed greatly solved the problem of food for the soldiers and civilians defending the city.

It is worth mentioning that the place to grow food and vegetables is not limited to the open space in the city. The slopes of Zijin Mountain, Red Mountain, Mufu Mountain and other mountains were also reclaimed for large-scale planting of crops, mainly in the area facing the Japanese army. On the hillside, prevent it from being destroyed by Japanese artillery fire.

The trees on the mountain have almost been cut down, and there are wastelands everywhere, which are just used for planting crops.

February is the shortest month, so after Jiang Weiguo had been leisurely for a week, March has arrived.

On March 3st, Jiang Weiguo received Hitler's telegram again, and there was only one sentence in the telegram:

you did it.

The words are very short, but enough, because everything is said without words.

Seeing this telegram, Jiang Weiguo smiled. Yes, he did it. Nanjing, which had only guarded for 13 days in the original history, has now guarded for three full months because of his change, and did not lose it. The Japanese army, which had only 1.2 casualties in the past, now has a full 20 casualties on the Nanjing battlefield.

This Sino-Japanese war was changed by Jiang Weiguo from the very beginning. The July [-]th Incident and the Songhu Battle at the beginning still barely had the original appearance, but by this time the Nanjing Battle was completely different from the original history.

Jiang Weiguo actually thought about it, the eight years of the War of Resistance, and now he has changed so much differently by himself in only eight months, what will happen in the future?What will it develop into in the future?Jiang Weiguo himself is not clear about it. In fact, his ability to "predict things like a god and predict the future" has almost been lost at this time.

Facing the unknown future, Jiang Weiguo was indeed secretly a little nervous, but he thought again: Isn't it my mission and purpose to change history?In any case, the number of Japanese deaths has doubled, and the losses of the Japanese have doubled. Isn't this a good thing or a bad thing?

Taudman immediately approached Jiang Weiguo, and the two had a private meeting in Jiang Weiguo's office.

Toddman beamed with joy: "Mr. Jiang, you did it. The head of state asked me to express my heartfelt congratulations and respect to you on behalf of him!"

Jiang Weiguo laughed: "Severe words!"

What Taudman said below made Jiang Weiguo overjoyed, because Jiang Weiguo is a realist (Jiang Weiguo is too realistic): "Mr. Jiang, the head of state plans to give you 300 planes and 300 vehicles on this special day. Tanks, 100 large-caliber heavy guns, 10 submarines, and 3000 million U.S. dollars in funds are not loans, but funds, and these arms funds are not included in the German-Chinese cooperation treaty, and are additionally given to you by the head of state!" His words clearly It has no meaning.

Jiang Weiguo couldn't help being overjoyed, but he calmed down immediately: "The head of state is so generous, I am grateful.

These arms and funds may add up to 1 million US dollars, right?Germany is currently recovering rapidly, and its national power is thriving, but it is not as rich as the United States. I believe that the head of state is also in short supply, right?Even so, the head of state still spends a lot of money on China. It is really unreasonable for our country not to repay such a big favor! "Germany's total GDP in 1938 was about $300 billion, the United States' GDP was about $1938 billion in 1000, the Soviet Union was slightly higher than Germany's, Britain was slightly lower than Germany's, Italy was about $100 billion, and Japan was about 150 billion. It should be noted that after the United States formally and seriously entered a state of war, its GDP surged to 2000 billion U.S. dollars in just two years , and in just four or five years, gdp soared to 3000 billion US dollars.