I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

On the Nanjing battlefield at this time, the Japanese army in Jiangbei was the 3rd Army of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Hirasuke, which had the 11th, 13th, and 25th Divisions under its jurisdiction. The 11th Division is newly built, so its combat effectiveness is relatively inferior to the previous two divisions. Therefore, the task of encircling the Jiangbei Pukou area of ​​Nanjing City and guarding the Jiangbei area was assigned by Lieutenant General Liu Chuan to the 13th, 25th and 11th Divisions. The regiment is equivalent to the "logistics division of the 13rd Army". When the general sent troops to intercept Jiangbei, Lieutenant General Liu Chuan sent the division to carry out this task), the third was to control some nearby occupied areas, and the fourth was to guard the rear occupied area of ​​the 25th Division, which was attacking the northern Jiangsu area.

The 9th Division first attacked Suzhong, and then North Jiangsu. The 25th Division sent some troops to "pick up ready-made" in the back to consolidate and protect the rear of the 9th Division. Therefore, Yangzhou City, which was captured by the 9th Division, naturally Handed over to the 25th Division.

The Japanese army only had a mere [-] men, while Li and Song had [-] elite soldiers in their hands, including aircraft, artillery and tanks. According to common sense, this was an overkill battle, but the actual situation was not like this.

Kato Rei, the commander of the Japanese army in Yangzhou, was born in the engineering army. He was naturally not very proficient in infantry and armored combat. He led his troops in the Hexinzhuang area in the south of Yangzhou City and launched a decisive battle with the murdered Nanjing army in an "upright, upright, fearless, one-to-ten, one-to-one-to-ten" battle.

A bombardment of cannons and tanks (there are dozens of tanks in Li Song's army, although they are basically No. 500 and No. 500 and captured Japanese tanks, but it is no problem to kill Japanese infantry) plus a few A Chinese Air Force bomber bombed, and the [-] subordinates of Kato Osamu were successfully turned into more than [-] living people and more than [-] dead by the Nanjing Army within half an hour.

The creepy Kato Osamu hurriedly gathered up the remnants and fled into Yangzhou City, desperately asking for help from his superiors while resisting.

More than 500 Japanese troops, of course, could not fight a city defense battle, and could only retreat to the hinterland of the urban area and important places. The majestic troops of the Nanjing Army easily entered the urban area and were warmly welcomed by more than [-] residents of Yangzhou City. Welcome, the extremely excited "Long live the national army! Long live the Nanjing army!"

Accompanied by the cheers, there were gunshots, cannons, and explosions. Because the battle was not over, nearly half of the remaining 500 Japanese soldiers were wounded, and the remaining [-] to [-] Japanese troops hid in the city and continued to fight. The Nanjing army immediately searched and suppressed these remnants throughout the city.

In fact, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army were at ease in doing this, because the more than 100 residents in the city were the helpers of the Nanjing Army. Where the Japanese soldiers were hiding and where they were fleeing, the residents of nearby Yangzhou immediately notified the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army, and soon , the remaining Japanese troops were wiped out in sevens and eighties, but in the end there were still more than [-] Japanese troops who rushed into a residential area in the city, relying on the buildings in the residential area to carry out the final resistance, and at the same time did not allow the residents to come out , faintly took him as a hostage.

"Damn it! Another dirty trick!" After receiving the report, Hu Lian, the commander of the 813th regiment, gritted his teeth. He didn't engage in any propaganda or other means, and directly transferred a dozen infantry units from the artillery battalion of the regiment headquarters. Guns and mortars are on top.

"Boss, besides the devils, there are also our common people..." The residents watching the battle nearby were all shocked.

"There's no way!" Hu Lian's face was livid, "Those ghost soldiers can't surrender, they're already planning to die there, and they can't let the common people inside go, they just want to kill us before they die Several people.

Follow my orders and fire! "

More than a dozen infantry guns and mortars fought furiously together, and the residential area was razed to the ground. More than 100 Japanese soldiers and more than 300 ordinary people inside were bloody and bloody.

After this bombardment, it also announced the end of the not very intense and short-lived Yangzhou Battle. The Nanjing Army successfully recovered a large city. Recovered the county seat occupied by the Japanese army for the first time (in the original history, Tengchong was the first county seat occupied by the Japanese army recovered by the national army since the Anti-Japanese War. In this battle, the national army invested more than 5 troops, all of which were expeditionary troops. About 3000 people, another saying is more than 7000 people, and another saying is more than 1800 people, the more accepted statement is more than 3000 people, the national army has air control, and the Japanese army has relatively complete and solid civil fortifications. The war lasted for a full four months. The army suffered about 1.9 casualties, of which more than 9000 were killed. The Japanese army was basically wiped out except for more than a hundred people who broke through and escaped. The ratio of casualties to both sides was as high as [-]:[-].

Before that, the national army did not "recover" in the strict sense. Most of the situations were just that the national army attacked and was repelled by the Japanese army, or the national army and the Japanese army fought in the city and then the national army was repulsed by the Japanese army, or the Japanese army voluntarily gave up. , and then the national army occupied it for a short time, and was finally repelled by the Japanese army, such as the Wuyuan campaign commanded by Fu Zuoyi.

As for the "Battle of Ping'an County" commanded by Li Yunlong, it only existed in the novel, and it did not exist in real history.

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After the victory, the Nanjing Army had no time to take a breath. Suddenly, they saw thick smoke and flames rising somewhere in the city. The officers and soldiers rushed over and found that it was the Japanese army's baggage warehouse. Dozens of Japanese soldiers lit their baggage warehouse on fire before they died. A raging fire broke out, and a large amount of materials such as tens of thousands of dans of grain, tens of thousands of bales of cotton, and piles of cloth piled up by the Japanese army from Yangzhou and other places were burned because of this. There were constant explosions in the fire, because the Japanese army still had some ordnance and ammunition. The reserve was also set on fire and destroyed by the Japanese army.

The officers, soldiers and residents worked hard to put out the fire, but only found a little bit of it in the end.

"Damn it!" Song Xilian was furious, "These oriental bastards! If they die, they die, and they burned so much material! If they burn it, they burn it, and what they burn is the people's fat and anointing of our people! It's really devoid of conscience!"

"Brother Yinguo..." Li Yutang said anxiously, "I just asked the people in Yangzhou that the food burned by the Japanese army was not only the military rations that were taken by them for their own consumption, but also most of the Yangzhou area. common people's grain storage.

After the Japanese army occupied here, they forced the common people to hand over most of the food in their homes, called "centralized management", which actually means controlling most of the food.

If the common people wanted to eat, they were distributed by the Japanese army on time. Of course, only a small amount was distributed, and the common people had to mix the food with bran and wild vegetables and cook it together.

With such a fire, we will not be able to get food supplies, and the people in Yangzhou will have nothing to eat in half a month!"

"Damn you little devil!" Song Xilian became angrier the more he listened, "It's so poisonous! Brother Yaojie, we marched all the way, and the Japanese army resisted along the way, and set fire to the supplies when we were dying, so wouldn't we get nothing? And make the local people go hungry?"

Li Yutang nodded: "Yes, that's what I'm worried about!" He spread out the map and pointed, "Look, Brother Yinguo, Gaoyou County is 40 kilometers north of Yangzhou City, and Baoying is 40 kilometers north of Gaoyou County. County, and 40 kilometers north of Baoying County is Huai'an, where the 9th Division of the Japanese Army is attacking.

According to the information provided by the Bureau of Maritime Statistics, the Japanese army in Gaoyou County is not from the 25th Division, but from the 9th Regiment of the 6th Brigade of the 7th Division and the two brigades of the 9th Regiment of the Division's Supplies. The 7th regiment was disabled by the Gui army on the front line of Huai'an, but there are still more than 2000 combatable soldiers, and the two heavy brigades also have about 2000 people.

Don't forget, the 9th Division was strengthened before the attack, and there were more than 4 devil soldiers in the whole division.

In this way, the Japanese army in Gaoyou has more than 2000 infantry and more than 2000 heavy soldiers, more than 9 people, not only that, the old devil Yoshizu (Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Yoshisuke, commander of the [-]th Division) must have noticed his rear now It is dangerous, and we will definitely send more troops to Gaoyou. Therefore, we were able to take Yangzhou by surprise and surprise attack. It will be difficult to attack Gaoyou.

The information sent by the Maritime Statistics Bureau shows that Gaoyou is almost the rear material base of the 9th Division, because Gaoyou is on the bank of Gaoyou Lake, and there are both the Grand Canal (that is, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal) and the highway between Gaoyou and Yangzhou. It is very convenient. The Japanese army has been using cars, motorboats, and wooden boats snatched from the hands of the people to transport supplies to Gaoyou. The large amount of goods looted was at least 100 times the amount here in Yangzhou. The food alone was enough to feed 500 million people for half a year. According to a Haitong agent who disguised himself as a migrant worker to work in the Japanese military farm, the Japanese military farm only There are more than [-] buffalo and yellow cattle that were snatched!" He looked at Song Xilian, "You know what I mean? "

Song Xilian nodded solemnly: "I understand.

We stormed Gaoyou, on the one hand, it was very difficult, on the other hand, the Japanese army would burn supplies when they were defeated, so that we would get nothing, and we would also cause the local people to starve with us!"

"I'm still worried about one thing!" Li Yutang sighed, "Just now Hu Lian sent me a report.

Brother Yinguo, our current battle is to seize the cities occupied by the enemy on our land. The situation is different from before. Thousands of people in our own cities are our own people. Therefore, our bombers Groups cannot be easily bombarded, our artillery group cannot be easily bombarded, the difficulty of siege...you can imagine it!"

"Yes!" Song Xilian's expression became more and more gloomy, "We must find a way to solve this problem!"

Although Jiangsu Province is a province close to the sea and has a long coastline (more than 950 kilometers), there are very few good ports. There is only one Lianyungang port in northern Jiangsu, none in central Jiangsu, and only a few in southern Jiangsu near the mouth of the Yangtze River ( Shanghai is not included, although Shanghai belongs to Jiangsu at this time, it will not belong to Jiangsu in later generations).

This is because most parts of Jiangsu Province have gradually floated up from the sea for thousands of years. This situation has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the altitude of Jiangsu Province is generally very low, and the land is plain and fertile, suitable for growing grain. The reason is that there are no stones on the seashore of Jiangsu Province, and it is all mud. Compared with Shandong Province, the coastal terrain of Shandong Province is mostly bedrock coast, so there are many good ports, while Jiangsu Province is mostly muddy coast, which makes the land very flat. , The slope is very small and extends below the sea surface, the sea is flat, the sea water near the shore is very shallow, and the port needs to be wide and deep, so the muddy coast of Jiangsu Province is not suitable for creating a good port, and sea salt can only be dried (so Jiangsu Province Only then did Yancheng City have the "salt drying in the whole city").

After the Japanese army invaded Jiangsu Province, especially in the central part of Jiangsu Province, they could not get supplies from their navy, because the Japanese navy had no ports in the central and northern parts of Jiangsu Province (Lianyungang is still in the hands of the national army, and the Japanese army At this time, even taking Lianyungang can’t be used, because the entire northern Jiangsu is controlled by the national army), after the 9th Division entered from southern Jiangsu to central Jiangsu and then to northern Jiangsu, the logistics supply line could only continue from southern Jiangsu to the In northern Jiangsu, food was naturally looted on the spot, because Jiangsu Province is full of fertile fields.

Faced with this difficulty, Li Yutang, Song Xilian and other generals hesitated for a long time, so they had to ask Jiang Weiguo for instructions.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who recovered Yangzhou City also dealt with one thing when they dealt with the aftermath, which was to deal with the puppet troops in the city.

After the Japanese army captured Yangzhou, in order to manage better, they recruited (or forced) more than 2000 local young and middle-aged men to form the "Yangzhou Public Security Corps". Therefore, except for a small number of leaders who were issued with rifles, the rest of the puppet army were just holding various cold weapons.

After the Yangzhou battle broke out, the puppet army had no fighting spirit and basically did not help the Japanese army.

How to deal with these puppet soldiers, Li Yutang and Song Xilian thought about it, and felt that it would be cruel to kill them indiscriminately. After all, not all of these puppet soldiers recognized their thieves as their fathers. The Japanese army got some food to support their families. Only a few people sincerely followed the Japanese buttocks to pretend to be powerful and work for the tiger. As for their performance after becoming a puppet army, most of them did not do evil, and a few did.

In the end, Li Yutang ordered: Among the members of the puppet army, all the perpetrators and those who committed serious crimes will be executed. There are no perpetrators or those who have committed minor crimes. There are two ways. Certainly not to join the regular army immediately), participated in the war against Japan to atone for their sins, and the second was to cut off their right index finger and release them home (cutting off their right index finger was to make them unable to use guns again).

In this regard, members of the puppet army who were not executed chose to join the militia of the Nanjing Army, and more than 130 members of the puppet army who had committed crimes were publicly executed.

In addition, the Japanese army also set up a "Yangzhou Maintenance Association" in Yangzhou. The chairman was naturally a traitor. After becoming the chairman, he did not help the evildoers, but tried his best to save the local people from the Japanese army and reduce the burden on the local people.

Li Yutang thought about it, and felt that this kind of traitor who "is in Cao Ying and his heart is in the Han" cannot be considered a traitor at all. In fact, it was only after he was arrested that he found out that this chairman is actually the person in charge of the Yangzhou Section of the East China District of the Maritime Statistics Bureau. .

In the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, Jiang Weiguo carefully read the telegram sent by Li Yutang. After pondering for a while, he called a unit of the Air Force: "It's time for you to go to the field!"

It was the paratrooper regiment of the Air Force that Jiang Weiguo called.

Chapter 333 Crazy City (3)

Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Yoshisuke, head of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, may not be considered a famous general, but he is a rare steady soldier in the Japanese Army who is generally impetuous and eager for quick success. He advocates not launching a full-scale invasion prematurely. One of the few Japanese generals who had a long-term vision in the Sino-Japanese War. In terms of strategy, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi advocated the "non-expansion concept" of steadily encroaching on China but trying not to break out of an all-out war with China. In terms of tactics, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi's The characteristic of using soldiers is "steady and ruthless". He has a stable style, but he is not slow and rigid. Although he dares to take risks, he will never take them lightly. , Bloodthirsty and easy to kill. In the original history, he and his 9th Division were also one of the chief culprits in the Nanjing Massacre. However, the "limelight" of the murder was taken away by the 6th Division and the 16th Division , so the 9th Division is not particularly notorious.

在日本陆军内，第2、第6师团的战斗力是公认第一，接下来就是第9、第18师团以及号称“钢军”的第5师团了。

The "prestige" of the 9th Division was achieved through a series of vicious, tough, and bitter battles. Did not participate in the Nanjing Massacre. The division was sent to fight in northern Zhejiang during the Nanjing Defense War, so it did not participate. The 9th Division participated with conclusive evidence.

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When he learned that the Nanjing Army's breakout troops crossed the Yangtze River, seized Yangzhou, and approached Gaoyou, Lieutenant General Yoshizu was really surprised, because he did not expect the Nanjing Army's breakout troops to cross the Yangtze River in the lower reaches of Nanjing. Cross the Yangtze River in the upper reaches of Nanjing, then go to southern Anhui, and then attack from southern Anhui to northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu. If that is the case, his 9th Division can naturally deal with it calmly and with ease, but the Nanjing Army's breakout troops walked away The slanted front and the soldiers made strange moves, and suddenly appeared behind the 9th Division, which naturally greatly caught Lieutenant General Yoshizumi by surprise.

Lieutenant General Yoshizumi's 9th Division was greatly strengthened before accepting the mission of attacking central and northern Jiangsu. The division had a strength of about 4.1 troops.

Lieutenant General Yoshizumi’s task is to launch an attack on central and northern Jiangsu with lightning speed, occupy a large plain, obtain a large amount of food and supplies on the spot, go all the way north, and finally target Xuzhou. The 10th Division and the subsequent 14th Division will also attack Xuzhou from the south of Lunan after pulling out their bodies. In this way, the 9th Division will go from south to north, and the 10th and 14th Division will attack Xuzhou from north to south. If Xuzhou can be captured quickly, it is naturally the best. The Jinpu line will be opened up, and the Central China and North China Front Armies will be integrated; Attacked Xuzhou with bluff, luring the elite main force of the Chinese army to rush to Xuzhou for reinforcements (more than four months after the Battle of Nanjing, the Chinese Army Command revived and established an army of 9 million, the Japanese knew it, and the Japanese estimated that this Among the 10 million troops, there should be only 14 with combat effectiveness. The Japanese intend to use Xuzhou as a bait to attract hundreds of thousands of elite Chinese troops to rescue), and then dispatch no less than six divisions (these troops have A large part of it was prepared to be drawn from the central China front army that surrounded Nanjing, so the high-level Japanese army hesitated to resume the attack on Nanjing, because the resumption of the attack on Nanjing would cause a great consumption of military strength), and a "Xuzhou siege" was held in one breath. Eat up the main elite of the Chinese army.

The high-level Japanese military has repeatedly studied and reached the following two conclusions:

First, it is true that the Sino-Japanese War cannot be dragged on, as it is not good for Japan if it drags on. Japan must win this war quickly, either by coercion or inducement, or by both intimidation and inducement to the Chinese government to beg for surrender;

Second, if Japan wants to win the war quickly, it must do three things. First, occupy the rich and developed eastern China. Second, destroy the main force of the Chinese army. Third, take the Chinese capital Nanjing.

Among them, the first two points must be achieved when Nanjing is difficult to win. If the three points can be achieved, the three-pronged approach is naturally the best, but if the third point cannot be achieved, it must be achieved Two points ahead.

Apparently, the Nanjing Army's countermeasures to break out of the encirclement implicitly caused the Japanese military's "huge plan" to be thwarted to a certain extent, and brought great hidden dangers.

At this moment, Lieutenant General Yoshizu knew that he had a heavy responsibility. Although he only commanded one division, it was directly related to the success of this major plan of "Xuzhou Great Siege".

After repeated thinking and weighing the pros and cons, Lieutenant General Yoshizu believed that the 9th Division could not retreat. Once it retreated, northern Jiangsu, which was in the hands of the Chinese army, would be stabilized and consolidated, and central Jiangsu would also be taken away by the Chinese army. "Xuzhou A huge gap will be completely formed in the south of the "big encirclement", and the whole plan will be in vain. At the same time, once the 9th Division retreats, it will fall into the enemy's front and rear. The Guangxi army in the north will pursue it, and the Nanjing army in the south will block it. In the hands of the army, the 9th Division will indeed be very dangerous. It can be seen from the map that the 9th Division is attacking Huai'an at this time. To the west of Huai'an is Hongze Lake, to the east is the Great Plain of North Jiangsu and Central Jiangsu, and all the way to the east is the coastline. There is no port at all. To the west of Gaoyou in the south of Huai'an is Gaoyou Lake. The situation in the east is the same as Huai'an. Between Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake, there are waters all over and river networks, completely connected by fragmented rivers and lakes. No. 9 There will be no way for the division to retreat.

Lieutenant General Jizhu finally made a decisive decision. On the one hand, he maintained the main force on the front line in Huai'an, which not only restrained the Guangxi army, but also continued to attract the follow-up troops of the Chinese army. , thus stabilizing the rear of the 9th Division.

On the evening of April 4, when the Nanjing Army’s breakout troops arrived outside Gaoyou City, the Japanese army in Gaoyou City already consisted of a reinforced infantry regiment (the 19th regiment), 7 artillery brigade, and 1 supply brigades, with a total strength of more than 2. (more than 7500 infantry, more than 5000 artillery, and more than 500 heavy soldiers), the commander is Isa Kazuo, the captain of the 2000th regiment.

In this regard, Lieutenant General Yoshizu is convinced that so many troops are more than enough, enough to delay the 9th Division and the Japanese army as a whole for enough time.

Gaoyou is a small city with a population of about [-]. The core urban area has a total area of ​​about [-] square kilometers and is surrounded by rivers (to the west are Gaoyou Lake and the Grand Canal).

Izuo Dazuo was clear-headed, and he also learned the lesson of the Japanese army of Yangzhou City, Kato Rei Sansa, so he was willing to be a "shrinking tortoise", resolutely not going out of the urban area to start a field battle, and focused on gathering troops and defending the core urban area.

In the middle of the night, that is, at 4 o'clock in the morning on April 20, Qiu Qingquan, the deputy commander of the 99th Division, under the order of Li Yutang, led the division's most elite and greatly supplemented 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment. Liba launched a tentative night attack.

Two hours later, in the former enemy headquarters of the 99th Division, Li Yutang couldn't bear to be furious at Qiu Qingquan: "Absurd! Will you stop fighting if you leave Nanjing? Look at the bad battle you fought! You killed less than 1000 enemies, but More than [-] brothers were killed or injured! And they didn’t make an inch of progress, and they didn’t gain an inch of land! It’s a shame!”

Qiu Qingquan was ashamed by the scolding, but he was a little unconvinced: "Master, it's not that the brothers are incompetent, but that the devils are too cunning! Also, this is a battle to attack the city. We are fighting a city defense war in Nanjing. It's different in the first place." ! The city is full of our own people, and the brothers can't use it!"

Li Yutang was furious, but seeing Qiu Qingquan's forehead being wiped with blood by Japanese bullets because he personally led the charge, and thinking that this combat mode was really different from the Battle of Nanjing, his anger slowly subsided: "Forget it Yes, I believe you tried your best.

You can gain experience through success, and you can learn lessons from failure. You didn’t succeed just now, tell me, what experience have you gained? "

"There are too many!" Qiu Qingquan began to narrate one by one in an orderly manner while touching the wound on his forehead.

On the Nanjing battlefield, the reason why the Nanjing Army was able to beat the Japanese army hard and achieved great success was that the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army were not inferior to or even surpassed the Japanese Army in terms of weapons and equipment, combat effectiveness, quality of soldiers, morale, spirit, and will. Relying on solid and complete city defense fortifications, five cannon hills, etc. are very conducive to the defensive conditions of the Nanjing Army as the defender. It is also a major victory factor that cannot be ignored. However, on the Gaoyou battlefield, although the combat mode is still urban offensive and defensive warfare, but At this time, the Nanjing army became the attacker, and the Japanese army became the defender.

Two hours ago, Qiu Qingquan led more than [-] elite soldiers of the Nanjing Army to launch a night attack in the area of ​​Wuliba. The officers and soldiers first wanted to cross the Chengzi River in front of Wuliba, but when they crossed the river, they were spotted by the Japanese army on the other side of the river. The firepower net immediately covered the river surface, and the blood and water splashed on the river surface. A large number of officers and soldiers were killed or injured when crossing the river. Seeing this, Qiu Qingquan hurriedly ordered the artillery unit behind the infantry unit to open fire, and a shell flew across the river. On the other side of the river, the Japanese-controlled area was bombed with lightning, thunder, sky and earth, and buildings and houses collapsed. During the shelling, there were not many screams in Japanese, but the cries, screams, and howls of the local people rang out.

Braving the firepower of the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers bravely crossed the river and found that there were only [-] corpses of the Japanese army among the ruins and rubble. Several times, the injured and surviving civilians screamed and wailed miserably in the pile of dead and blood, and the families of the dead or injured were beside them screaming and crying loudly.

After the officers and soldiers penetrated a little into the urban area, they were immediately met with fierce counterattacks by the Japanese army in the urban area. Rifles, machine guns, mortars, and grenades hidden in civilian houses shot from all directions. The officers and soldiers were strafed and bombarded, making them dizzy and difficult to fight back tit for tat.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the officers and soldiers penetrated less than 500 meters into the urban area, but they were struggling to move forward. Because the casualties were not cost-effective and brought too much disaster to the local residents, Qiu Qingquan had to order a retreat.

"Master, after entering the city, the brothers can only walk along the streets and alleys. There are densely packed houses on both sides of the streets and alleys. The devils are hiding inside and firing. What should we do? Bomb with cannons? At least one devil will be killed Twenty or even hundreds of our own people, brothers, I can't bear it, the cries of our own people are all around our ears, especially the frightened crying of children, we have to be afraid of our hands and feet, and we dare not take heavy weapons easily. Yes, the devils are using this to take advantage of us.

Not only that, devils are haunting the private housing area, maybe only [-] of the [-] private houses have devils in them, we can't blow up all of them, right?And the devil fired a shot and changed the place. Suddenly, a crooked handle sticks out from the window of a private house and shoots at us. Then the devil's machine gunner ran away and continued the sneak attack in another private house Us, what about us?We must first check the house where the devil machine gunners haunted, and at the same time beware of the surrounding houses, the efficiency of the attack can be imagined!" Qiu Qingquan was very angry, "the second battalion and a platoon, when passing through a small alley Suddenly, it was bombed by devils. The devils blew up the houses on both sides of the alley, and buried the platoon alive. At the same time, they also killed or buried hundreds of our ordinary people alive.

Devils certainly don’t care about this, anyway they fight in our cities, of course they have no scruples!”

Li Yutang was angry, anxious and helpless when he heard it.

Indeed, it is indeed difficult for the Chinese army to attack Chinese cities occupied by the Japanese army, and the Chinese army also lacks experience and technology in this regard.

Thousands of Japanese soldiers mixed with tens of thousands of Chinese people in one city. After dawn, the bombers of the Chinese Air Force would be useless.

During the daytime on April 4th, the Nanjing army attacking Gaoyou launched four attacks on the main urban area of ​​Gaoyou, which was occupied by the Japanese army, but failed. The total number of Japanese troops killed and wounded was less than 20, and more than 1 people were injured. At the same time, the urban area was affected More than [-] civilians were killed or injured.

Under the order of Izuo, the Japanese army simply bandaged the injured civilians (basically no medicine was used, just to stop the bleeding and slow down their death), and then moved these injured civilians to the Japanese defense line, making the wounded The wailing and screaming, moaning and crying, and distressed cries for help of the civilians resounded over the heads of the officers and soldiers of the attacking Nanjing army.

Under the instructions of the Japanese army, more than a dozen traitors, holding high-pitched speakers, lay behind the Japanese army's position and shouted to the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing army:

"Military bosses outside, we represent the fathers and folks of Gaoyou, I beg you! Stop fighting! The Japanese occupied Gaoyou, and our Gaoyou people were killed or injured less than 100 people (because there was basically no regular army in Gaoyou before the fall, only the local The security corps fought several small-scale battles with the Japanese army and was forced to withdraw. The Japanese army captured Gaoyou with less than 40 casualties. In addition, the Japanese army basically did not kill in the city due to various reasons during the occupation of Gaoyou. Or rape women, just looting supplies), your national army came and said they wanted to recover Gaoyou, but after fighting for one night and one day, tens of thousands of people in Gaoyou were killed or injured! Are you here to rescue us or to harm us? We beg you, stop fighting! According to this posture, when you liberate Gaoyou, we will all be dead! I beg you, let us live!..."

Hearing these words, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army felt extremely uncomfortable.

Although these traitors are talking about sophistry and fallacies, they seem to have a certain "reason", and to a certain extent, they seem to be what some Gaoyou people are thinking.

In the final analysis, at this time, most of the common people in China were not very conscious. They just wanted to live their lives in comfort. It was like this when they were ruled by the Qing Dynasty, it was like this when they were ruled by the Kuomintang, and it seemed to be the same when they were ruled by the Japanese. .

Thousands of years of suffering have given the Chinese grassroots people the toughness and tenacity like weeds, but also the humbleness and lowliness like weeds.

More than 20 bf-109 fighter jets and ju-88 bombers with blue sky and white sun military emblems on their fuselages appeared in the sky above Gaoyou city amidst the roar of engines like thunder, circling, hovering, and hesitating repeatedly, and the last bomb was not dropped. Go away helplessly.