I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

The machine guns, mortars, and grenades of the Japanese army fought back with all their might. After a burst of fire and bombardment, the extremely annoyed Japanese army rushed over, and there was no one at the three machine gun fire points. On the contrary, the Japanese machine gunners and infantry gunners suddenly had their brains splattered several times in a row, all of which were precisely shot by Nanjing Army snipers, and a mortar shell from the Nanjing Army also landed on the head of a Japanese machine gun group with incomparable accuracy. , and the fragments of human flesh and machine guns flew in all directions.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" A squadron leader of the Japanese army rushed to find the Nanjing Army's machine gunner and shouted eagerly, "Here is a tunnel entrance!"

The Japanese army captain who rushed over saw the entrance of a tunnel disguised as a dry well. It was dark and bottomless, and there was neither light nor sound below. After thinking twice, he ordered the squadron leader to take a small group of soldiers. Go down and check it out.

More than 50 Japanese soldiers descended into the entrance of this tunnel shaft with ropes one after another. Soon, the sound of machine gun fire and Japanese screams and wailing came from below, and all the Japanese soldiers who went down died inside.

All the Japanese soldiers who had thrown themselves into the net were shot and killed by the Nanjing Army machine guns who retreated into the tunnel and waited.

In the narrow tunnel, the Japanese army could not move at all. They had no way to advance or retreat, no way to escape, let alone counterattack. They were the living targets of the Nanjing army inside.

This is a common thing in Nanjing street fighting. The Japanese army often finds the entrance of some Nanjing Army tunnel network, and the Japanese soldiers who enter almost all die inside, because the Nanjing Army inside is waiting with machine guns. The helpless Japanese army had no choice but to destroy or destroy the entrance of the tunnel, or throw in a grenade to blow it up, or pour gasoline into it and set it on fire, but the attack on the Nanjing Army was very slight.

Chief of Staff of the 108th Division Suzuki Toshiyuki lamented: "...the Nanjing Chinese Army is digging holes everywhere like mice and earthworms. I really don't know how many tunnels they dug under the ground of Nanjing City, and they It also transformed most of the buildings and houses in the urban area of ​​Nanjing into firepower points.

After the street fighting broke out, there were Chinese troops in front of and behind us, Chinese troops on our left and right, and even under our feet. Even though we occupied Nanjing City on the ground, the underground world of Nanjing City was still under the control of the Chinese Army , this is really embarrassing.

The progress of our army is completely difficult, and every meter advanced has to pay a heavy price!"

After paying a great price, the Japanese army barely got close to the surrounding area of ​​the target, but this only meant that the battle stage that required a greater price had come.

In an instant, Lieutenant General Xia Yuan, who was watching the battle, only felt pain in his eardrums and dizziness in his eyes, because he heard and saw at least one hundred machine guns and thousands of rifles and submachine guns of the Nanjing Army shooting at his troops, densely packed. The impenetrable machine gun firepower net criss-crossed and criss-crossed the Japanese army crowd like countless luminous cutting machines amidst the deafening and sharp and abnormal firing sounds, and countless firepower nets flew wildly and wildly. One after another.

The firepower points of the Nanjing Army have been built for a long time, and they are extremely solid. Not only are they excellent in quality, but they are also very large in number. Among them, a machine gun of the Nanjing Army was even divided into five firepower points. After shooting in one of them for a while, the machine gun team quickly carried the machine gun into the other through traffic trenches or tunnels. On the one hand, it avoided the Japanese counterattack. On the other hand, it continued to shoot at the Japanese army from different angles, so it was almost impossible for the Japanese army to cross this thunder pool.

In the binoculars of Lieutenant General Xia Yuan, he saw his soldiers rush forward again and again like yellow waves, and retreat again and again. Every time they retreat, they will leave a large number of bloody corpses in front of the defense line of the Nanjing Army With a large number of wriggling, struggling, and moaning wounded soldiers, he became more and more impatient. The Nanjing Army used landmines, machine guns, submachine guns, grenades, and mortars to attack the distance of only a hundred or so meters. Guns, grenades, infantry artillery and fortification tunnels built a wall of death, and the Japanese troops who hit it could not advance at all.

After taking a deep breath, Lieutenant General Xia Yuan personally organized the next storm attack. More than a dozen tanks were thrown into a new round of offensive. Dozens of artillery launched shelling at great risk. Thousands of Japanese soldiers were slightly injured. In addition, there were two to three hundred rounds of "special bombs (gas bombs)" that the Japanese army had to use when they were completely exhausted.

"Sudden generation!" Amidst the roar of the artillery officer, the Japanese artillery opened fire with all its strength, blasting more than [-] rounds of poisonous gas shells into the defense line of the Nanjing Army. Immediately afterwards, the Japanese armored soldiers wearing gas masks drove the tanks to charge violently. Behind are thousands of Japanese infantrymen, all wearing gas masks.

The Japanese army roared up, and the yellow wave rolled towards the Ministry of Railways building, which was guarded by the Nanjing Army.

The Japanese army was still greeted by the Nanjing Army's powerful counterattack like smashing steel and iron. In the yellow-green smoke of poisonous gas, the earth-shattering Chinese shouts and the roar of machine guns sounded again. Countless dazzling arcs of fire broke out again, and in the explosion like landslides and ground cracks, Japanese tanks ignited thunderbolt flames one after another under the furious bombardment of the Nanjing Army's anti-aircraft guns, turning into blazing scrap iron, covered in flames. The flaming Japanese armored soldiers screamed and climbed out of the tank and rolled around.

The "meat bombs" of the Japanese army did not flinch. They howled and rushed towards the defense line of the Nanjing Army like arrows from the string, and were killed, killed, and exploded one after another in the rain of landmine explosions and machine gun bullets.

The Nanjing Army, which was attacked by the Japanese gas bombs, put on gas masks and responded with fire. A large number of gas bombs roared from the Nanjing Army's position and flew towards the Japanese Army, blowing up the Japanese Army in the death storm.

Amidst the roar of "Fengtian Killing Thieves" that went straight to the sky, waves of Nanjing Army officers and soldiers who had already been killed in ragged clothes, disheveled faces, and covered in blood rushed out of the position, and started close combat with the Japanese troops who were already close at hand in the yellow and green confused poisonous gas. hand-to-hand combat.

Amidst the howling of wounded beasts, the crowds on both sides fell down in batches under the firepower. The number of casualties of the Japanese army greatly exceeded that of the Nanjing army. Flying, more soldiers from both sides tore off each other's gas masks in hand-to-hand combat, causing the opponent to immediately fall down like a crab, foaming at the mouth.

Half an hour later, the Japanese attack was repulsed again, leaving a large number of dead and wounded soldiers on the defense line of the Nanjing Army.

Lieutenant General Xiayuan broke out in cold sweat: "God... these Chinese troops are really too..."

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Chief of Staff Suzuki Dazuo shouted hoarsely, "China Army! Behind!"

A large number of Nanjing troops suddenly appeared behind the Japanese army, and when the Japanese army was caught off guard, they charged and killed the Japanese army fiercely, and once again killed the Japanese army to a mess.

As Colonel Suzuki said, "There are Chinese troops even under our feet." The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who counterattacked the Japanese army did indeed drill to the rear of the Japanese army through tunnels.

In street fighting, the Nanjing Army repeatedly used this tactic. When the Japanese army stormed a certain stronghold, some defenders of the stronghold used tunnels to detour to the rear of the Japanese army, and then killed the Japanese army.

The battle for the Ministry of Railways building was only a small part of the entire Nanjing street battle. Such battles abound. Although the Japanese army has been able to enter the urban area of ​​Nanjing at the moment, they cannot effectively occupy the urban area at all. The progress is very slow, and the number of casualties is Continue to grow day by day.

Northeast China, a certain piece of farmland in the "Longjiang Province" of the Puppet Manchukuo.

Hundreds of local people were searching for something in the field, and there were a few Japanese standing beside the field.

"I caught it!" A commoner caught something, ran towards the Japanese in a hurry, and put a vole that was still struggling and writhing in his hand into a wooden box next to the Japanese. Inside the box were wriggling, Furry field mouse.

A Japanese looked at the statistical form in his hand and shouted loudly: "It's not enough! According to regulations, your village has to pay 400 mice or voles. Now there are only more than [-], and the time is only tomorrow! Hurry up!" ! Brace yourselves! Mission accomplished!"

The people had no choice but to nod submissively, and were forced to continue this task of catching mice.

In a place farther away, two Japanese soldiers in civilian clothes were talking in a low voice. One was Major General Tsukada, the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese Central China Front Army, and the other was a senior officer. The Colonel, who was one level lower than himself, was very polite: "Mr. Ishii, whether Nanjing City can be breached by the imperial army depends to a large extent on the research results of you and your troops!"

Colonel Ishii Shiro, commander of the Japanese Army's 731st Unit, who was questioned by Major General Tsukada, nodded: "General Tsukada, I am personally looking forward to this large-scale 'actual combat'.

In fact, I have always believed that Japan has limited national power after all, and modern weapons such as warships, tanks, and aircraft are all costly. Therefore, high-quality and cheap bacterial weapons with amazing lethality are the most suitable for Japan. Unfortunately, high-level military officials They never paid much attention to it!"

"Mr. Ishii, if the research results of you and your army can make the imperial army capture Nanjing in one fell swoop, why won't the top military officials pay attention to your concept of germ warfare in the future?" Major General Tsukada Gong laughed, "Nanjing is spring now. In the summer season, bacteria are easy to spread, which is a good opportunity for your troops to show their talents! By the way!" He put away his smile and said strangely, "Ishii-kun, you specially ordered the Kwantung Army General Headquarters to let these 'Manchuria The country's civilians are catching mice and voles everywhere to spread the bacteria, right? Is this method too time-consuming and troublesome? In my opinion, it is entirely possible to use planes to drop bacterial bombs into the city of Nanjing! Imperial Army planes can bomb Nanjing at night The city was bombed with precision!"

Ishii Shiro shook his head, with a troubled expression on his face: "Takata-kun, you don't understand, bacterial bombs are different from poison gas bombs, because the bombs will kill the bacteria in the shells when they explode after being thrown, I have always wanted to solve this problem , there is no good way at the moment, only the conventional way of animal transmission can be used.

By the way, Mr. Tsukada, there are many Chinese people in Nanjing, right? (In the original history, in order to solve this problem, Shiro Ishii "studied" a bacterial bomb with a ceramic shell.

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"A lot!" Major General Tsukada Gong nodded, "We drive a large number of Chinese people into the city every day. The Chinese army thinks that we are using Chinese civilians to consume their food reserves. Of course, this is our original purpose, but right now, we can serve This special attack method provides convenience!"

"That's good, if there are more people!" Ishii Shiro nodded.

Chapter 342 Liecheng (2)

On May 170, [-], the [-]th day of the Battle of Nanjing.

In the original history, Xuzhou was officially occupied on this day, but in the current history, Yuhuatai, another main position outside Nanjing City, was officially captured by the Japanese army on this day.

This is the seventh main position outside the city that the Nanjing Army has lost. So far, the main positions outside the city of the Nanjing Army are only Zijin Mountain, Qixia Mountain on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Pukou District on the north bank of the river.

For the Nanjing Army, it was not a pity to lose Yuhuatai, because the Japanese army paid a painful price of tens of thousands of deaths and injuries in order to capture this small hill.

After all, the purpose of the Nanjing Army's battle was not to defend the city, but to kill people.

The reason why the Japanese army expended so much effort to attack Yuhuatai had two purposes. The first was to remove Yuhuatai.

The north of Nanjing City has been breached by the Japanese army. The east is Zijin Mountain, the west is the Yangtze River, and the south is Yuhuatai. If the Japanese army wants to enter the city, they can only pass through the north of the city. Therefore, the troops and firepower of the Nanjing Army are concentrated in the north of the city, allowing the Japanese army to attack for a long time. Therefore, the high-level Japanese army decided to open up the second channel, so as to better implement the tactics of "dispersing troops and advancing in multiple ways", and it is more convenient to "cannibalize step by step".

Among the east, west and south sides of Nanjing City, the best place to fight was of course Yuhuatai in the south, so Yuhuatai was attacked fiercely.

In fact, Lieutenant General Hata Toshi-4 did not expect to be able to take down Yuhuatai. He decided to fight Yuhuatai for the second purpose. However, Lieutenant General Neiji Okamura, the commander of the [-]th Army who commanded this battle, overfulfilled the task. , Forcibly laid down Yuhuatai.

Yuhuatai was the only high ground outside the Zhonghua Gate in the south of Nanjing City. After breaking through it, the Japanese army could attack Zhonghua Gate and invade Nanjing City from the south.

The name of Yuhuatai is "Tai", which is actually just a small hill. The highest point is only 100 meters. The terrain is relatively flat, and there is no steep terrain. You can rush to the hill by riding a horse or driving. The entire Yuhuatai is about 3 kilometers long, which is relatively desolate. , so it was used by the national government as the execution ground for the execution of death row criminals in Nanjing.

Generally speaking, Yuhuatai is a hill, but it is not conducive to defense. It is just that it is the only high ground outside the Zhonghua Gate in the south of Nanjing City, so it has to be set as the main extended position.

For this reason, Kan Weiyong, Ma Chongliu, Cai Fangyin and other engineering officers and engineers worked hard to build the Yuhuatai position. Tens of thousands of engineers and migrant workers almost hollowed out the inside of the Yuhuatai mountain, turning Yuhuatai into a three-dimensional big blockhouse.

The fortifications of the entire Yuhuatai are mostly underground tunnel positions. The concrete fortifications are organically combined with the caves, and there are tunnel communication trenches connected to each other. Most of the artillery positions are also built semi-underground, and the internal tunnel fortifications reach as many as [-] floors.

The garrison was originally a brigade of the 88th Division. After the 88th Division broke out of the city, it was the 74th Brigade of the 58th Division (the 74th Division governed 3 brigades, and each brigade governed 2 regiments), with a total strength of more than [-] troops. People (more than [-] regular troops and more than [-] militiamen), commanded by brigade commander Shi Zhongcheng and deputy brigade commander Liao Lingqi.

After the fierce battle broke out, it was Lieutenant General Yamada Otozo, the commander of the Japanese 8th Army, who was ordered to attack Yuhuatai. The troops participating in the battle were the 109th and 110th divisions. The soldiers were sent to North China to participate in the war. The total strength of the two divisions was only 8000.

After the attack began, the process and the outcome can be imagined. Yuhuatai itself has artillery groups, and Yuhuatai is completely within the firepower coverage of Zijinshan Heavy Artillery Group. All over the ground, the heavy artillery shells flying from the Zijin Mountain like angry arrows and shooting stars blasted the Japanese soldiers into the sky one after another.

Fighting continuously for four days and four nights, Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigetsu, the commander of the 109th Division, and Lieutenant General Sang Mu Chongming, the commander of the 110th Division, wept uncontrollably, regardless of their identities and influences. Hysterical, because the troops of the two were beaten so badly in these four days and four nights, there is no need to say more about the offensive process, the Japanese army completely used the dead to pave the way forward, and the Yuhuatai was covered with a solid layer of Japanese corpses Several times during the period, the Japanese army rushed to the high place of Yuhuatai, and it seemed that it was about to take it down. Dozens of heavy artillery on Zijin Mountain slammed over, and the whole Yuhuatai was turned into a sea of ​​flames. Hiding in the tunnel in advance, they were safe and sound, while the Japanese army on the hill was completely exposed to the artillery fire, and a large piece of flesh and blood flew across it. The brigade was blown to pieces. The general had to order the troops to disperse the attack, but after the formation was dispersed, the number and density of soldiers decreased, and the strength was seriously insufficient to form a strong attack force. As a result, they were completely killed by the Nanjing military machine gun group on the hill .

The heads of the two divisions were in great pain, because they were like Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror. They were not human inside and out. If the troops invested too much, they would become the coveted targets of the Purple Mountain Heavy Artillery Group. If they invested too little, they would become the Yuhuatai garrison machine guns. Groups of fish slaughtered one-sidedly.

When the combined casualties of the 109th Division and the 110th Division exceeded 1, Lieutenant General Yamaoka and Lieutenant General Sangmu were disheartened, and both lost the confidence and courage to continue attacking.

When the Sixth Lieutenant General Hata Jun came to inspect, he was shocked to find that Lieutenant General Yamaoka and Lieutenant Sang Mu were actually drinking in the frontline headquarters, and the two were "borrowing their sorrows with alcohol".

For this reason, Lieutenant General Hata Toshi No. 4 had to withdraw and replace the two men and their troops, and Lieutenant General Neji Okamura led the [-]th Army to continue the attack on Yuhuatai.

Lieutenant General Okamura didn't like this kind of aggressive battle. He repeatedly studied the terrain of Yuhuatai and the combat characteristics of Yuhuatai's Nanjing Army, and took some more effective measures to prescribe the right medicine.

Under the order of Lieutenant General Okamura, the attacking Japanese army repeatedly used mortars to lob the Nanjing Army's tunnel entrance, blocked the tunnel entrance with huge stones, drilled holes on the top of the tunnel, filled them with explosives, and other methods to block the tunnel entrance. , "Since they like to hide in burrows, let them stay there for a lifetime!" Lieutenant General Okamura said, not only that, the Japanese army adopted another more effective and ruthless method.

At first, some military officers suggested to Lieutenant General Okamura to smoke the tunnel entrances of the Nanjing Army with poison gas bombs, but this method was very difficult. At this time, the Japanese army only had poison gas shells and gas bombs, and did not have small "gas grenades". However, Okamura Inspired by the village general, he ordered his subordinates to collect a large amount of dry grass and dead leaves, and then piled up two or three hundred hills under the hill northwest of Yuhuatai (the northwest wind blows in spring and summer in Nanjing, so the northwest of Yuhuatai is the upper air outlet of Yuhuatai). piles of dry grass and leaves, and then light a fire.

Under the hill in the northwest of Yuhuatai, two to three hundred large fires were burning blazingly, and at the same time, hundreds of billowing smoke were produced.

Seeing that the entire Yuhuatai was shrouded in clouds and mist, Lieutenant General Okamura unhurriedly issued the next order: "Pour in peppers, pour in oil!" Hundreds of barrels of vegetable oil were dumped on the fire (most of these peppers and vegetable oil were collected by the Japanese army from the occupied areas), and the black smoke, which was already extremely pungent, suddenly became extremely pungent and spicy. The Japanese soldiers on the side of the pile were either wearing gas masks or covering their mouths and noses with wet towels. Many Japanese soldiers coughed violently or were choked to tears. Finally, the Japanese soldiers poured several times on the fire mixed with chili and vegetable oil. With a bucket of water, the fire was greatly reduced immediately, but the black smoke increased sharply. Hundreds of smoke pillars suddenly turned into a giant that covered the sky and the sun, and then enveloped the Yuhuatai firmly, and the sky was dark.

Lieutenant General Okamura's "Smoky Yuhuatai" has three purposes. One is to use this pungent "poisonous smoke" to deal with the Nanjing Army on the Yuhuatai, and the other is to use the smoke to fill the Yuhuatai, so that the Nanjing army on the Yuhuatai cannot They could see the attacking Japanese army clearly, so they couldn't shoot and straf accurately. The third is that the heavy artillery group on Zijin Mountain couldn't see the battle situation at Yuhuatai clearly, and couldn't tell the Japanese army and Nanjing army mixed together, so they couldn't launch shelling.

Lieutenant General Okamura did not use poisonous gas. First, it was too expensive. Second, the effect of the poisonous gas was limited due to the wind blowing.

The cost of using hay, dead leaves, peppers, vegetable oil, etc. is negligibly low, and it is naturally extremely cost-effective.

"Not good..." Liao Lingqi, the deputy brigade commander of the 58th Brigade, who was watching the scene closely on the Yuhuatai hill, saw the overwhelming smoke roaring up, and immediately understood the Japanese army's intentions. , The roaring shells only blew up dozens of Japanese fire piles, and the Japanese army quickly set up more fire piles. The shells were limited and it was not worthwhile.

Liao Lingqi immediately discovered that the smoke screen was rising faster and faster, and he quickly understood the principle. The fire under the Yuhuatai heated the air, and the hot air naturally rose, so he brought the smoke screen up.

"True poison!" After receiving the report, Shi Zhongcheng also burned inside.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army hiding in the tunnel had no choice but to close the exit of the tunnel, and they would suffocate themselves to death in the tunnel. If the exit of the tunnel was not closed, the thick black smoke would come in.

What's more serious is that the Japanese army has launched an offensive.

In the vast sea of ​​smoke, a large number of Japanese troops wearing gas masks are rushing up scatteredly, but the Nanjing Army on the hills can hardly be seen.

The charging Japanese soldiers wore a big kettle. When they climbed halfway up the mountain, the Japanese soldiers untied the kettles one after another, took a few big mouthfuls to relieve the physical heat and acridity, and then moved on. Not long after, a large number of Japanese soldiers They rushed to the high hills of Yuhuatai and launched a frantic attack towards the main position of the Nanjing Army.

When the 109th and 110th Divisions attacked Yuhuatai, corpses were everywhere, completely exposed to the firepower of the Nanjing Army's machine gun group. However, when Lieutenant General Okamura commanded the 15th and 17th Divisions to launch an attack, this " The "Road of Death" only cost the Japanese army a few hundred people to break through.

The infantry, machine gunners, and gunners of the Nanjing Army on the Yuhuatai could hardly see the enemy situation, and the viewing distance was less than 30 meters. If there was an air monitor on the Yuhuatai at this time, the measured PM2.5 value would probably far exceed that of later generations The worst air quality of the year in several "smog capitals" in China.

Although the Nanjing Army is the most "rich" Chinese army, it is impossible for the Japanese army to keep shooting with machine guns before seeing the enemy. Therefore, relying on the cover of thick smoke clouds, the Japanese army appeared in front of the defender's nose very easily, and then A bloody melee battle ensued.

In the trenches, in the trenches, in the traffic trenches, in the tunnels, in the positions... The officers and soldiers of the two armies fought desperately.

Although the number of casualties of the Japanese army exceeded that of the Nanjing Army, the situation is obviously not conducive to the Nanjing Army. After all, the Nanjing Army lost the most important terrain advantage and fortification advantage. After the fierce battle that night, the Japanese army successfully gained a firm foothold on Yuhuatai, and the combat mode was no longer The offensive and defensive battle of positions has become a tug of war.

In the middle of the night, Lieutenant General Taiji Hirono, head of the 17th Division, received a report that surprised him. A squadron under his command captured a captain officer of the Yuhuatai Nanjing Army half an hour ago. He voluntarily ran to the Japanese-controlled area and surrendered, and the other party spoke fluent Japanese: "Don't shoot! I have important information to report to your commander!"

Lieutenant General Hirono was very surprised to receive the captain of the Nanjing Army.

The Battle of Nanjing broke out for so long, and the Japanese army did capture many officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army, but basically they were captured after being injured or comatose and unable to move.

Of the 100 Nanjing troops, less than [-] surrendered, and the number of surrenders accounted for less than one-thousandth of the total number. The tenacity of the Nanjing army's fighting will shocked the Japanese army.

"Why did you surrender?" Lieutenant General Hirono asked the Nanjing Army captain with great interest.

"I'm not surrendering!" The captain of the Nanjing Army looked calm but said surprisingly, "I'm returning, because I was originally a Japanese of the Great Japanese Empire!"

"What?" Lieutenant General Hirono was surprised.