I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

Just as the Japanese army was chasing more vigorously and became unstoppable, eight ju-88s, escorted by eight bf-109s, rushed to help the battle in a majestic manner. At the end of the bombing, bombs rolled down from the sky, blood and flesh flew across the ground, and ghosts and wolves howled. Even bf-88 couldn't help but stepped forward to "join in the fun" and bombarded the Japanese army with aviation machine guns or cannons. To add to the fun of this "slaughtering Japanese feast" on the ground.

Seeing that the Japanese army was thrown into disarray by his own fleet, Hu Lian immediately ordered the whole regiment to attack with all his strength. He kept the troops from fighting, and deliberately led the Japanese army to open fields so that his own fleet could eat and kill. .

The Japanese army was beaten dizzily by the national army fleet first, and then was crushed by the 813th regiment, and was immediately defeated. Although the Japanese army resisted desperately, they couldn't stand the 813th regiment's attack like chopping melons and vegetables, and the situation on the battlefield was immediately reversed. Come over: The Japanese army who originally chased and killed the Nanjing Army was chased and killed by the Nanjing Army all the way.

After fighting for two hours, the 813th regiment killed more than 35 Japanese soldiers (about half of which were contributed by the Air Force) at the cost of more than 9 casualties, defeated the [-]th Infantry Regiment and the [-]th Cavalry Regiment of the Japanese Army, and then Singing forward and driving straight, they drove into Baoying County, but did not occupy Baoying County, because the defeated Japanese army also entered the county at the same time, and the two sides immediately started street fighting, tug-of-war, and scramble battles in the city, each occupying half of the city.

Not long after, follow-up troops from both sides arrived one after another and arrived continuously, causing Baoying County to become a battlefield where tens of thousands of soldiers from both sides fought.

This beautiful town, which was once named "Baoying" by Tang Suzong because of the discovery of the "Eight Treasures" in its territory and was dedicated to the then emperor Suzong, was quickly razed to the ground one by one in the bloody battle between the soldiers of both sides.

Although the Nanjing Army can bypass Baoying and attack Huai'an, 9 kilometers north of Baoying (the only trouble is that there is no road between the two places, and soldiers and supplies can only be transported through field farmland dirt roads), they can directly participate in the attack on the [-]th Division The main force attacked directly, but Li and Song didn't do so. The reason is very simple, the strength of their troops has been severely damaged.

The two originally had about 4 troops under their command. They lost more than [-] people when they attacked Yangzhou, and more than [-] people were lost when they attacked Gaoyou.

In this Battle of Gaoyou, the Nanjing Army annihilated about 5000 Japanese soldiers (basically all of them were killed, and almost all the wounded Japanese soldiers died, or were shot by officers and soldiers, or beaten to death by ordinary people), and more than 2000 Japanese soldiers escaped from the encirclement. As a comparison, Li Song's Second Corps suffered more than 2 casualties. As for the paratrooper regiment of the Air Force, it suffered more than 25 casualties (including accidental deaths). More than 9 Gaoyou civilians were killed or injured in the flames of war, and then Baoying was attacked. In two days, more than [-] people have been lost. The occupation and control of the Japanese army, and the defense of the Japanese army such as the [-]th Division behind it, is really powerless to fight the main force of the [-]th Division.

Even so, the offensive by Li and Song in the central Soviet Union still achieved very significant and positive results, producing a domino-like chain effect. First, the 9th Division suffered a certain loss of troops and a relatively large Second, the rear of the division was under strong threats, so it had to reduce its attacks on Huai'an and Xuzhou, and was even forced to switch from offensive to defensive as a whole. Therefore, the southern part of the important town of Xuzhou received great security. The dangerous situation in the fifth theater has also been greatly improved; at a deeper level, the Japanese army's "Xuzhou encirclement" plan has been buried with great hidden dangers and uncertain factors. It fell into the joint attack and even encirclement of the Chinese army.

The high-level Japanese army, who had already wiped out two divisions by the Chinese army, was obviously not as confident as before in the "anti-strike capability" of a Japanese division. They had to hastily mobilize troops to rescue the 9th division, thereby further disrupting the The overall deployment and planning of the Japanese army.

In addition, the troops of Li and Song also played an important role of "four or two to pull a thousand catties".

The Japanese know very well that the strongest unit of the Chinese army is the "Nanjing Army". At the beginning, the Japanese wanted to capture Nanjing City and destroy the Nanjing Army at the same time. But now, the Japanese find it difficult for them to capture Nanjing City and destroy it. The Nanjing Army, so they tightly besieged the city of Nanjing, locked the tigers of the Nanjing Army in an iron cage, and then killed the other troops of the Chinese army. Walnuts, and most of the rest are persimmons. The Japanese are very clear about this.

However, the successful breakout of the Nanjing Army's breakout troops had to make the Japanese very anxious. Forty to fifty thousand of the [-] "Nanjing Tigers" actually ran out of the big iron cage in Nanjing City. The trouble is needless to say, as the so-called house leak coincided with the continuous night rain, the [-] to [-] Nanjing tigers that broke out of the cage just ran to the most critical place for the Japanese, which brought great harm to the Japanese. The troubles just got worse.

For a while, the Japanese North China Front Army and Central China Front Army were in a hurry.

At the same time, on the Nanjing battlefield, at the Great Victory Pass, the sky was shrouded in smoke and corpses were everywhere.

"Old Wu!" Chao Lemen (Qi Zeyuan), the chief of staff of the fortress, stumbled into the command post in the fortress filled with the pungent bloody smell, with a hoarse voice, "Little Japan has launched an attack again!" His facial features were almost tense Twisted, because the ten fingers connected to the heart, he had to grit his teeth and endure the severe pain of being cut off by the Japanese army in hand-to-hand combat.

"Damn it!" Wu Junyi, the interim commander of the fortress, spat out half of the cigarette in his mouth, his eyes were red, "3 minutes! It's only 3 minutes! Here we go again! These bastards! Don't let me live in peace for a moment!" He looked at Chao Le and the others, "How many times?"

Chao Le thought hard: "The eighth time!"

"Only the eighth time?" Wu Junyi gritted his teeth.

Chao Le and others corrected: "Today is the eighth time!"

Wu Junyi gritted his teeth: "So, adding yesterday, last night, and the day before yesterday, there are a total of 22 times! The devils have launched a total of 22 full-scale attacks on us!" He stood up staggeringly, with multiple wounds on his chest, back and face. They were all oozing blood, and two military doctors rushed up, but they were pushed away by Wu Junyi.

"Brothers!" Wu Junyi raised the submachine gun in his hand with fiery eyes, and his whole body was furious, "The devil is coming up again!"

The officers and soldiers who were exhausted from fighting and crumbling stood up from the pool of blood with difficulty, waving the weapons in their hands.

"Fengtian kills the thief! Kills the thief! Kills the thief!" The roar that shook the sky and the earth once again rang out over this unyielding fortress.

The 2nd and 6th divisions of the Japanese army that stormed the fortress of Dashengguan were tiger-like elites, and they also had powerful artillery provided by the 2nd and 6th heavy artillery brigades.

The overwhelming bombardment caused the Dashengguan fortress to be blown up into ruins. In two days and two nights, the Japanese army bombarded Dashengguan with more than 1000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells. More than 5000 rounds. If it weren't for the Chinese Air Force's bomber fleet that seriously threatened the Japanese artillery positions, the number of artillery shells fired by the Japanese army on the Dashengguan Fortress would have tripled at least. For the ground.

Under the powerful shelling, the Dashengguan Fortress was like a giant reef in a sea of ​​fire, trembling, and shattering like a giant reef. It was completely submerged in the fireballs blooming everywhere. Corpses flew around in the explosion. Soldiers from the two armies who had died in battle Together with clumps of living officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army defenders, they were blown into pieces of flesh flying all over the sky.

The heavy artillery of the Japanese army began to thin out after 10 minutes of lasing, because the Japanese army had to divert the heavy artillery to avoid the bombers of the Chinese Air Force, but immediately after that, more Japanese mortars and grenadiers screamed one after another, and the shells like a hail Amidst the rain of bullets, they continued to rush towards Dashengguan. The Japanese army, who was not afraid of death, swept towards Dashengguan like a mudslide in the smoke and dust. The vanguard almost stepped on the blasting point of the mortar. Running and advancing, from time to time, Japanese soldiers who were too fast and too close were blown to pieces by their own shells, and the subsequent Japanese soldiers filled up without blinking, and then charged, and finally met Nanjing, who was holding on to the big victory. The army launched a bloody melee.

Amidst the deafening sound of killing, the scene that had been repeated countless times on the Nanjing battlefield reappeared. The two armies engaged in a desperate fight, and the battle became fierce from the very beginning.

Relying on five times the number of the Nanjing Army, the Japanese army carried out round-to-wheel battles against the fortress in turn, day and night, and endlessly. Attacking in clusters will not only be killed by the dense firepower network of the fortress, but also become the ideal target of the Nanjing Army's artillery and aircraft groups. Therefore, the Japanese troops put into battle every time are the size of two infantry regiments, in the form of skirmishers. Taking advantage of the coordination of infantry and artillery, the infantry crowd rushed to the noses of the defenders as soon as the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army ended. Directly started close combat, shooting, hand-to-hand combat, and hand-to-hand combat.

Among the black clouds of gunpowder smoke, the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army, who were also howling, frantic, and completely fearless of death, were drowned in the bloody storm.

The machine gunners of the Nanjing Army frantically strafed the Japanese army. In order to seize the very short time when the Japanese army rushed over to kill the Japanese army to the maximum extent, the machine gunners did not even consider moving their positions. The cold shooter was killed or was killed by a Japanese mortar shooter, and the deputy shooter next to him immediately took over, continued to shoot and kill the Japanese army, and died again. The next ammunitionist and reserve machine gunner... went forward without hesitation. The blood flowed around the machine gun until the machine gun was blown up; in the ensuing close combat, the two armies, who were completely capable of killing, fired at each other without cover (not that they did not dodge, but that they had no time to dodge at all), splashing In the stormy shell fire, the crowd fell one by one, and the crowd behind immediately filled up, continued to fall one by one, and finally stepped on the blood pools of corpses everywhere to start a hand-to-hand fight, throwing grenades at each other, and stabbing each other with bayonets To kill, if the bayonet breaks, use stones, bricks, and steel helmets; if you have no weapons, use teeth, fists, and fingers until you die in battle.

"Let's go one step ahead!" Amidst the frightening roars, one after another wounded soldiers rushed into the enemy army holding grenades or explosives, blasting clouds of thunderbolt blood mist.

Several ju-88 bombers flew over the Dashengguan battlefield at low altitude, and the pilots in the planes were all terrified. On the ground, the crowd like a pack of wolves was completely entangled together. Among the enemies killed, there were me, and there were enemies among me, and the corpses were densely packed The ground was covered all over the ground, and the living soldiers were fighting on top of the dead. Layers of bomb craters covered the ground, and the blood of the dead officers and soldiers of the two armies flowed into the bomb craters, forming shocking large and small red "water". depression".

All the pilots burst with blood and tears. They really wanted to help the army brothers on the ground, but the two sides were in a melee and could not drop bombs at all. Suddenly, a pilot saw a huge white cloth appearing in a melee. It was seven or eight soldiers of the Nanjing Army pulling the white cloth, on which was written in bold black letters:

Air Force Brothers!Drop a bomb here!

The pilots who saw this scene all burst into tears.

Every company and even every platoon in the Dashengguan Fortress prepared such a large white cloth in advance, with words such as "Request the Air Force to drop bombs on us" on it. This is the last way of fighting. When surrounded by a large number of Japanese troops, they would take out this white cloth, show it to their own pilots in the air, and ask their own pilots to bomb their place. Although they would be killed, more Japanese troops would be killed together.

Amid the tears, the bombers dropped bombs on that place. In the flame storm of lightning, thunder and thunder, dozens of officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army successfully dragged three times their number of Japanese troops and were killed together.

After dropping the bombs, the bombers flew over the Dasheng Pass where the smoke was soaring into the sky. All the bombers shook their wings gently to pay tribute and condolences to the Army brothers on the ground.

At Yuzuikou near Dasheng Pass, several gunboats and torpedo boats rushed over to protect a transport ship. The soldiers on board rushed ashore while unloading a large amount of ammunition from the ship.

Chao Le and the others rushed forward and grabbed Ouyang Sihai who was on the torpedo boat headed by the leader: "How many people? How much ammunition?"

Ouyang Sihai replied: "750 seven people, 20 bullets, [-] grenades!"

"There is too little ammunition!" Chao Le shook his head again and again, "We need more ammunition! There are more!" He pointed to the troops ashore, and asked eagerly, "Militiamen or veterans?"

Ouyang Sihai whispered: "They are all militiamen!"

"We need at least [-] veterans now! Just less than [-] militiamen?" Chao Le and the others were furious, "Also! Why did the Yuhuatai artillery group and the Zijinshan artillery group support us so much? So low? We need the strong support of their artillery group on the top of the mountain! There are dozens of heavy artillery, and less than ten are firing! What the hell! Do you want us to hold on to the Dasheng pass?"

Ouyang Sihai was also very confused: "I don't know either! Brothers, you stick to it!"

"What are you kidding? What are you kidding!" Chao Le and the others were almost irritable, "Persevere? Persevere! We're all exhausted! The original [-] brothers are almost gone! Now Those who stand up to the devils are basically militiamen! Why don’t the higher-ups refuse to fully support us?”

Ouyang Sihai looked at Chao Le and the others, feeling very helpless: "Take all the wounded to the ship first and send them to Nanjing City!"

A communications staff officer hurried over: "Sit in! The phone number of the Garrison Command!"

Chao Le and others rushed to the headquarters to grab the phone: "Hello! I am Chao Le and others, Chief of Staff of Dashengguan!"

"How is the battle? How many people do you have?" Xiao Yao's voice came from the phone.

Chao Lemenhui reported: "Brothers are going all out, killing and wounding the Japanese army should exceed 5000, but we are almost exhausted! We have just received a group of supplementary militiamen, and there are still about [-] people in the fortress. Half!" He almost burst into tears, "Mr. Xiao, please increase the aid to us! We did our best! But the devils are attacking so fiercely! Now the militiamen are fighting against the Japanese army, and the fighting spirit of the militiamen is the same as that of regular army veterans , but the combat effectiveness is indeed not as good as that of the veterans, and it is difficult to withstand the Japanese army.

I request immediate reinforcements of [-] veterans, and let the artillery groups of Zijinshan and Yuhuatai go all out for artillery reinforcements..."

"I know that you have all tried your best, and the officers all know it too!" Xiao Yao said in a low voice, "The Second Pre-Division has sent troops to reinforce you six times in a row..."

"Six times? But we didn't see any reinforcements?" Chao Le were shocked.

"The six reinforcements were repelled by the Japanese army, but they were repulsed by the Japanese army on purpose!" Xiao Yao's voice was very low.

"What? What do you mean 'it was deliberately repelled by the Japanese army'?" Chao Le and the others were stunned.

Xiao Yao paused, and said slowly: "The Great Victory Pass must be thrown away, but you can't throw it away voluntarily, but throw it away after you have fought for a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. You have been doing this. Well done, you have worked hard.

You just said that there are still 5000 people in the fortress, and half of them are wounded?In other words, there are still 500 soldiers in the fortress?Well, your next task is to wipe out these 500 people, and let the Japanese army step on your corpses and occupy Dasheng Pass!"

"What?" Chao Le and the others were completely dumbfounded.

On the other end of the phone, Xiao Yao put down the phone and looked at Jiang Weiguo, Tang Shengzhi, Huang Wei, Wang Yaowu, Chen Mingren and others beside him: "Dashengguan won't last tonight!"

At the same time, in the front-line headquarters of the Central China Front Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Anan Yui, head of the 2nd Division, reported happily to Lieutenant General Hata Toshi 6: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief! Our department has already entered the fortress. , if the fortress does not receive strong reinforcements, it can be taken within three hours! Our division has about [-] casualties, and the [-]th division has about the same casualties!"

Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro pondered: "The number of losses is much less than what we predicted before!"

"Indeed!" Major General Tsukada Gong said excitedly, "The Nanjing Chengchina Army tried to reinforce Dashengguan six times in a row, but our army repelled them all! It can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing Chengchina Army is indeed not as good as before! Commander-in-Chief, it is indeed feasible to resume the siege!"

Chapter 336 Crazy City (6)

The war situation in Nanjing is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Nanjing Army, but this is exactly the goal of the Nanjing Army.

At 4:20 pm on April 2th, the Dashengguan Fortress was declared to have fallen under the onslaught of the Japanese 6nd and [-]th Divisions for three days and nights. This was the fourth fortress after Tangshan Town, Longtan Town, and Wulongshan Fort The Japanese army captured an important position in Nanjing City, and the importance of Dasheng Pass greatly surpassed the first three, because Dasheng Pass guarded the Yangtze River transportation line of Nanjing City. The Japanese army cut off.

In the last battle of Dasheng Pass, the Japanese army had a total of more than [-] casualties, of which more than [-] were killed. The Nanjing Army defenders at Dasheng Pass were almost wiped out, and [-] died in battle. Of the remaining people, only more than [-] wounded soldiers were transported to Nanjing before the end of the war.

Lieutenant General Hata Toshiliu and other high-level Japanese troops were pleasantly surprised to find that the battle to conquer Dashengguan caused the Japanese army to pay more than 7700 casualties, but the Nanjing Army paid more than 9300 casualties. The casualty ratio of the two sides was 1:1.2.

On the Nanjing battlefield, this is the first time, because in the previous battles, the ratio of casualties between the Nanjing army and the Japanese army was 1:3, and even 1:4 on some battlefields.

The ratio of casualties between the Japanese army and the Nanjing army fell below 1:1 for the first time, which had to make the top Japanese army ecstatic, because this proved one thing: the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing army was indeed not as good as before.

After repeated analysis, Major General Tsukada Gong and other staff officers came to four conclusions:

First, the number of soldiers of the Nanjing Army in Nanjing City is seriously insufficient;

Second, the quality of soldiers of the Nanjing Army in Nanjing City has declined greatly;

Third, the ammunition reserves of the Nanjing Army in Nanjing City have become increasingly tight;

Fourth, the heavy artillery firepower of the five artillery hills of the Nanjing Army has been reduced by more than half.

These four points are the direct reason why the Japanese army was able to win the big victory with a battle loss ratio of 1:1.2.

Major General Tsukada Gong believed that, conservatively, there should be only 4 combatable soldiers of the Nanjing Army in the city of Nanjing. The Japanese army resumed the siege, and the Japanese army resumed the siege, and they were able to officially capture Nanjing as long as they paid another 5 casualties.

As of the end of the Battle of Dashengguan on the evening of April 4th, the Japanese army had suffered about 20 casualties on the Nanjing battlefield, of which about 24 were killed (the number of Japanese casualties and deaths includes the Nanjing Army's breakout operation, and does not include Soviet Union, Central Soviet Union, etc. The Battle of Northern Zhejiang and Northern Zhejiang) was indeed a huge casualty and heavy loss.

Regarding the huge casualties paid by the Japanese army, the top Japanese army was shocked at first, then furious, then furious, then terrified, and finally numb. The so-called "numb" means "accustomed to it".

The high-level Japanese army was extremely frightened, irritable, unable to get off the tiger, and helpless. They had to force themselves to "get used to" or pretend to be "accustomed to" this almost unimaginable number of casualties that they had never thought of before the war. , this numb "habit" also has a meaning of breaking a can.

Because the city of Nanjing is almost indestructible, the high-level Japanese army will acquiesce in continuing to attack. .

"Nanjing can be captured only by paying another 5 casualties?" The high-level military officials in Tokyo repeatedly studied the report sent by the Central China Front Army, faintly tempted again.

The mentality of the high-level Japanese army at this time is actually not complicated. For details, you can refer to various fraud cases in later generations, such as "seeking a child with a lot of money". But suddenly they see hope again, as long as they pay another 24 yuan, they can really gain something. Therefore, the victim will pay again, because there is such a very natural but shattered thought: Damn , I have already paid 5 yuan, do you still care about the last 24 yuan?So he gritted his teeth and took out another 5.

The same is true for the high-level Japanese army. When they learned that they only needed to pay another 5 casualties to completely take Nanjing, "resume the attack on Nanjing and take Nanjing" suddenly became a voice supported by more and more people in the high-level Japanese army.

Taking Nanjing, for the Japanese army, in addition to the various political significance brought about by conquering the Chinese capital, it also has great significance for revenge and saving face.

The top Japanese army did not realize two things. First, most of the [-] Nanjing troops who guarded Dasheng Pass and fought bravely to the death were militiamen wearing regular army uniforms. Second, defending Nanjing was never a battle for the Nanjing Army. Purpose, the combat purpose of the Nanjing Army is to kill and injure the Japanese army to the greatest extent possible and do everything in the process of defending the city.

Defending the city is not the goal, killing people is.