I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" the Nanjing Army captain said solemnly, "I am also a Japanese soldier, with the rank of second lieutenant, and I belong to the 'Mei Agency'. He is the brigade communications staff officer of the 1th Brigade of the 74th Division of the Chinese Army.

I feel that now is the time for me to play a role, so I found out the position of the Chinese army and went to the imperial army.

Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, your soldiers almost killed me just now. If I was really killed by the imperial army, it would be the second most important thing for me to die. The most serious thing is that you will not get the important information I provided.

Lieutenant General, please contact Lieutenant General Doihara immediately, my file number in Mei Agency is B[-], my agent code name is 'Carambola', and my real surname is Sakurai!"

"Oh?" Lieutenant General Hirono immediately ordered a communications officer beside him, "Go and check immediately!" He then looked at the "Nanjing Army Captain" with a little respect, "Thank you for lurking in China. Long!"

"Serve the empire and be loyal to the emperor!" Sakurai nodded, "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, you don't need to be surprised, there are actually a lot of people like me, I don't know how many there are, I guess thousands.

We all lurked into the Chinese army several years or even more than ten years ago. The household registration system in China was backward and chaotic, and it was very easy to mislead people. We lurk in the Chinese army quietly, ready to serve the empire and the people anytime, anywhere. The emperor dedicated his life and made his greatest contribution!"

Lieutenant General Hirono was very interested: "What is your mission?"

Sakurai replied: "There is no clear task, but long-term lurking. If the timing is right, I will make a choice and display my value. I think the time has come for me to display my value!" (Note: Sakurai This situation is very common. A large number of Japanese spies sneaked into China many years ago and carried out long-term infiltration. Some were executed because they were exposed; Anonymous, living like a Chinese, did not play their role until death, and some died accidentally in the Chinese civil war, died as a Chinese, quietly submerged in the archives of history .

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After verification, Sakurai's identity was accurate. Lieutenant General Okamura immediately met Sakurai in person after receiving the report from Lieutenant General Hirono. Sakurai provided Lieutenant General Okamura with a map of the Yuhuatai tunnel network, which he wrote down. In my mind, the information showed that Yuhuatai had three tunnels leading to the Nanjing city behind.

After obtaining this precious information, Lieutenant General Okamura was overjoyed: "God help me too!"

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Sakurai reminded, "the Chinese army in Yuhuatai has more than 7000 people, but they can't kill them all, because their wounded were transported into Nanjing city through the three tunnels, and new supplementary troops and weapons Ammunition and supplies were transported from Nanjing to Yuhuatai through the three tunnels!"

"So your intelligence is very important!" Lieutenant General Okamura nodded repeatedly, "Cut off those three tunnels, and Yuhuatai will be truly isolated and helpless! In addition, the imperial army can also enter Yuhuatai through those three tunnels!" He delighted I couldn't help but looked at Sakurai, "By the way, Lieutenant General Doihara said, your rank is now lieutenant. In addition, your family in Japan will receive a reward of 3000 yuan. What are your plans next?" ? Should I return to Japan? Or be transferred back to the headquarters of the Mei Agency? Or..."

"Continue to lurk!" Sakurai nodded, "During the fierce battle, it is very normal for people to disappear. I should not have been exposed to the Chinese army, so I plan to serve as a remnant of the Yuhuatai defenders after Yuhuatai is captured by the imperial army. Enter the city of Nanjing!"

Lieutenant General Okamura felt a little unbearable: "If you have been exposed, then you will throw yourself into a trap and seek your own death if you go back!"

"No, Your Excellency the Lieutenant General!" Sakurai's eyes were firm, "If I was exposed, Yu Sui would only have one life. If I hadn't been exposed, then I would still be able to serve the Empire and be loyal to the Emperor. This is not a very cost-effective choice. ?"

Lieutenant General Okamura nodded and patted Sakurai on the shoulder: "You are a loyal soldier of the empire!"

Sakurai saluted Lieutenant Admiral Okamura, then went out and disappeared into the darkness.

As the Japanese army mastered the tunnel network of Yuhuatai, the battle situation in Yuhuatai suddenly fell to the Japanese army.

The Japanese army first dug tunnels to lead to the tunnels of the Nanjing Army of Yuhuatai, and then sent a large number of elite soldiers to drill into the tunnels to launch a surprise attack. Several material warehouses in the city finally exploded and collapsed the tunnels, cutting off the connection between Yuhuatai and Nanjing City.

The Nanjing Army at Yuhuatai fell into a solitary battle, and the unfavorable combat conditions for the officers and soldiers were secondary. The most serious thing was that the Japanese army burned fire and smoke under the hill day and night, "burning" the Nanjing Army on the hill, Although the officers and soldiers had some gas masks, they did not have chemical protective clothing. The skin was exposed to the smoke and fire, which not only blistered and hurt, but also evaporated a large amount of water in the body. All the officers and soldiers were thirsty and unbearable.

Gas masks and water became the two most important supplies on Yuhuatai.

In the tunnel, a large number of wounded soldiers were dying, all gnashing their teeth in pain. Many wounded soldiers were biting their bandages to endure the pain until they died, unable to tear off the bandages in their mouths.

Tear-jerking and tragic scenes abound in the tunnels. Officers and soldiers gave water to the wounded soldiers to drink and put gas masks on the wounded soldiers, but the wounded soldiers refused.

"You need more...water for you, and gas masks for you..." the wounded soldiers said with difficulty, "we can't kill those devils anyway, forget it... don't waste it on us. ..”

The officers and soldiers all burst into tears.

After another three days and three nights of fighting, Yuhuatai officially declared its fall. The brigade commander Shi Zhongcheng was shot by a Japanese bullet while participating in the battle, and died in battle. The deputy brigade commander Liao Lingqi led hundreds of officers and soldiers out of the encirclement and retreated to Nanjing.

"It's really been shot down?" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro was very pleasantly surprised after receiving the report from Lieutenant General Okamura. He decided to attack Yuhuatai not entirely because he wanted to take it down. He mainly served the second purpose, namely: paralysis Nanjing Army.

"The tunnel is about to be dug, and the manpower and equipment of Ishii's troops are about to arrive!" Lieutenant General Hata Toshiro breathed a sigh of relief, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, "I hope this time we can conquer Nanjing in one fell swoop.

This battle is too long, and it should be over!"

Chapter 343 Liecheng (3)

The Battle of Constantinople that broke out in 1453 was commented by military strategists and historians as "a typical 1937th century fortress city attack and defense battle", while the Battle of Nanjing that broke out at the end of [-] was not commented as "a A typical fortress city offensive and defensive battle during World War II", but was commented as "a typical fortress city offensive and defensive battle at the level of World War I", because neither of the participating parties in the Nanjing Battle was a real "modern army", and the Chinese army Needless to say, the Japanese army is actually the same. The Japanese army can only run rampant within East Asia (in the original history, although the Japanese army had beaten the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands to disgrace, it was mainly due to the Japanese navy). There is a big gap with the first-class armies of Western powers, so the Battle of Nanjing is just "a typical battle of attacking and defending fortress cities at the level of World War I", and the Japanese army had to dig tunnels to attack the city is a manifestation of this.

On the surface of Nanjing, wars are raging, but in the underground world of Nanjing, hundreds of tunnels are constantly being dug, extended, and widened. Two-thirds belong to the Nanjing Army and one-third belong to the Japanese Army.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! You useless Korean dogs! You are worse than farmers!" In a tunnel with dim lights, a Japanese engineer squad leader held up a flashlight and cursed, beside him. , a large number of Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality were busying themselves, like "human centipedes", forming a line that could not be seen from the end to the end in the narrow and dimly lit tunnel. The Han at the front of the line The Japanese soldiers were sweating profusely, wielding shovels, pickaxes and other tools to dig the soil, and the Korean Japanese soldiers behind hand passed the baskets of soil. , I-beams build a simple support structure in the tunnel.

In order to prevent the Nanjing Army from being alarmed, the Japanese army naturally could not use large machines, and basically all operations were done manually.

In order to improve efficiency and speed up the construction, the Korean and Japanese soldiers in the construction work [-] hours a day, and eat, shit and rest for [-] hours. They are all exhausted and miserable.

Although the Koreans (Koreans) at this time were also Japanese, that was only in name. Koreans with Japanese nationality were only second-class citizens in the Japanese Empire, and the Japanese army would definitely not cherish these "inferior Japanese". Completely use Korean Japanese soldiers as humanoid animals that can understand Japanese.

"Your Excellency, Captain, I am too tired to move, please let me have a rest..." A Japanese soldier of Korean nationality who was almost on the verge of collapse was panting like a cow while turning pale to the pure Japanese soldier in his engineering team. The bloodline team leader almost begged.

His answer was a rain of whips and ferocious curses: "Stand up! Lazy pig! Keep working! The Empire of Japan raised you Korean dogs not to let you lie down on the ground like dead dogs and slack off!"

"Your Excellency, Captain, this finger of mine seems to be broken...It hurts a lot, please allow me to show it to the military doctor..." Another Korean Japanese soldier begged.

There are still raining whips and vicious curses: "Keep working! As a soldier of the Japanese Imperial Army, can't you overcome such a small injury? Useless waste! Let you go to fight the Chinese army, you I was killed by the Chinese army like a wretch, and now I just let you dig tunnels, can’t it? A bunch of Korean dogs who only know how to eat and shit! Go back to work!"

The Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality who were screaming from the whipping had to struggle to continue construction.

"Bastard!" A Japanese engineer squadron leader who was inspecting asked sternly, "Why is there so much water in the underground? Why didn't you drain it in time?"

"Reporting to your Excellency, Squadron Leader, the groundwater in the Nanjing area is very rich. The tunnel we dug is already seven meters deep. There is too much groundwater seeping out of the soil, and there is no time to drain it..." A Japanese soldier of Korean nationality fought replied tremblingly.

"Baga! It's clear that you are lazy! As a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army, passive sabotage is absolutely not allowed!" Following the scolding was a vicious whip.

Undoubtedly, the rough style of the Japanese army aroused great dissatisfaction and even resentment among the Korean and Japanese soldiers. All the Korean and Japanese soldiers who were used as coolies complained, but they had no choice but to continue construction without speaking out.

Because the Japanese did not have enough time to investigate and explore the soil geology in the Nanjing area, the tunnels were dug forcibly, so accidents continued to occur. Once, a tunnel suddenly collapsed halfway, and more than 500 Koreans were buried alive at once. Japanese soldiers, the senior Japanese officers who learned about this incident only cared about whether this incident would alarm the Nanjing Army, and they didn't care about the more than 500 Korean Japanese soldiers trapped in the collapsed tunnel. The Japanese soldiers were very angry. Finally, after receiving the report, Lieutenant General Okamura ordered to improve the food standard of the Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality, which barely suppressed the anger of the Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality.

Generally speaking, the Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality can be said to "get up earlier than chickens, sleep later than cats, and what they eat can't be said to be pigs and dogs, but what they do is indeed cattle and horses." During the construction process, they were exhausted. Overdrawn Korean and Japanese soldiers abound, injured Korean and Japanese soldiers are continuous, and there are even incidents of Korean and Japanese soldiers who originally suffered from recessive diseases being exhausted alive. As for being beaten and insulted by the Japanese soldiers, It is even more commonplace for Japanese soldiers of Korean nationality.

Relying on the desperate efforts of tens of thousands of Korean Japanese soldiers, the Japanese army finally dug through the planned tunnel in late May.

"Ten meters away is the tunnel of the Chinese Army!" In a certain Japanese tunnel, an engineer officer excitedly stroked the wet and cold soil at the top of the tunnel, "After so much hard work, I can finally reap the rewards, and immediately report to the Commander-in-Chief !"

More than half an hour later, the Colonel made a final report to Lieutenant General Okamura with a radiant face.

Lieutenant General Okura personally invited this engineer commander named Ogura Sho from Japan to take full charge of this matter. He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tokyo University in Japan in his early years, and later went to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy to work as a construction engineer. He became a soldier, and later went to study in Germany. Three years ago, he was appointed as the head of the Japanese Army's "Fortification Headquarters" and was an engineer expert.

"Your Excellency, Commander, a total of 38 tunnels were excavated, and 9 were abandoned due to collapse and other reasons, so there are still 31 tunnels left. Of these 31 tunnels, 16 were used to confuse the Chinese army, and they were not actually dug. The other 15 tunnels were actually excavated!" Mr. Ogura Kankan reported, "Of the 15 tunnels, there are 7 large tunnels and 8 small tunnels, all extending from Tangshan Town to Zijin Mountain.

The large tunnel leads to the tunnel network of the enemy army in Zijin Mountain, and is used to transport the elite soldiers of the imperial army secretly into the tunnel network of the enemy army. The small tunnel leads to the important positions of the enemy army in Zijin Mountain, and is used to bury explosives for tunnel blasting.

The 15 tunnels have a total length of 175 kilometers, and a total of more than 30 cubic meters of earth and rock have been excavated!"

Lieutenant General Okamura nodded approvingly: "Thank you!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, I am honored. As an imperial soldier, this is my duty!"

Lieutenant General Okamura walked to the Zijin Mountain map on the wall: "If you want to break Nanjing, you must take Zhongshan (Purple Mountain)! Unfortunately, the imperial army spent too much time, troops, and equipment on the Nanjing battlefield, and did too much. Too much useless work! If this purpose can be implemented at the beginning... forget it, let's not talk about it.

Ogura-kun, mark the coordinates of the end points of those fifteen tunnels!"

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!" Mr. Ogura picked up a red pen and walked to the map, "Seven large tunnels extend to here, here, here, and here...Eight small tunnels extend to here, Here, here, and here..." He marked them one by one, "concentrated in the southeast and east of Zijin Mountain.

Your Excellency, according to the information you provided, these eight heavy-duty bunker groups of the Chinese Army pose a great threat to the Imperial Army, so I designed these eight small tunnels to lead directly to them, and it is estimated that a total of explosives will be buried. 35 tons, it is guaranteed to blow up all the eight heavy-duty bunker groups of the Chinese Army at once!Completely remove obstacles and open passages for the imperial infantry units to attack! "

Lieutenant General Okamura nodded slightly: "Very good!"

"It's not just that!" Dazuo Ogura said more and more proudly, "As for the seven large tunnels I designed, they lead to seven different nodes of the tunnel network of the Chinese Army at the bottom of Zijin Mountain, each of which can be completed in half an hour. 1 soldiers from the imperial army were imported, and the total number of seven lines could reach more than 1! More than [-] soldiers from the imperial army broke into their interior at once, and at the same time, their outer defense line was blown away. Commander Your Excellency, the imperial sun flag is flying on the highest peak of Zijin Mountain, and it is about to come true!"

Lieutenant General Okamura nodded again: "If that's the case, then it really couldn't be better.

It is only a matter of time before Zijin Mountain is won, and it will no longer be as hesitant and unable to make progress as before. After taking Zijin Mountain, it will be a matter of time before Nanjing City is taken.

By the way, how far has the tunnel been dug? "

"All the tunnels have been dug close to the Chinese army, 15 meters away from the elders and [-] meters away from the younger ones. Once the official battle starts, all the tunnels can be dug through within half an hour!"

"That's good! That's good!" Lieutenant General Okamura nodded approvingly, and then paced back and forth, as if concentrating on contemplation, and there was a faint worry in his brows.

"Your Excellency, Commander..." Even though he knew he shouldn't talk too much, Colonel Ogura still couldn't help his curiosity, "Do you have any worries?"

"No, no, you've done a good job!" Lieutenant General Okamura comforted, and after a little hesitation, he expressed his worries, "Mr. Xiaocang, to be honest, facing Nanjing City, Zijin In this situation in Shanshan, we have to admit that the preparations of the Nanjing Army are too full. They started the preparation work half a year in advance, and they have continued this matter for more than five months after the start of the war. It can be said that the Nanjing City , The fortifications of Zijin Mountain were built by them for a full year, a year! Conventional tactics have been tried repeatedly, and they are not effective at all. I have to put my hope on the primitive but effective method of digging tunnels.

It's just... I realized just now that the tunnel is, after all, a very narrow space that cannot be deployed. Before the official attack, as a precaution, I only put a brigade or a regiment of troops in the tunnel. Yes, the loss must be very small, but after the breakthrough is successful, there will be insufficient troops to penetrate into the Nanjing Army, which will easily make the plan come to naught. Tens of thousands of soldiers poured in, so the probability of success is naturally extremely high, but..." Lieutenant General Okamura's face showed a faint heart palpitation, "If it fails, there are so many soldiers in the tunnel, they can't escape!It's easy to be destroyed in it all at once!The tunnel is their grave! "

"Your Excellency, Commander..." Colonel Ogura was a little dumbfounded, "That kind of thing is impossible, right? Even if the Chinese army counterattacks, the Chinese army pouring into the tunnel will be as unable to use it as the imperial army, at most The vanguard will be lost, and the follow-up main force will still be able to exit the tunnel safely.

To release poisonous gas? His heart moved, "Your Excellency, are you worried about this?"What if the Zena army discovers the tunnel of the imperial army and releases poisonous gas into the tunnel? "

"Well, this is one of my many worries!" Lieutenant General Okamura nodded, "After all, the tunnel is too narrow and the ventilation is extremely poor. Even if you wear a gas mask, you will be close to death after being attacked by poisonous gas in the tunnel. , if you don’t die from poisonous gas, you will die from suffocation!”

"Indeed!" Chief Ogura's heart became heavy, "However, Your Excellency, please forgive me, the situation may not be that bad. Although the release of poison gas in the tunnel will hit the imperial army, the Chinese army itself It's the same situation.

In addition, if you really encounter that kind of situation, as long as you are ruthless, sacrifice the vanguard, blow up a small part of the tunnel, and block the poisonous gas, the follow-up main force will still be safe and sound!"

"Yes, yes..." Lieutenant General Okura was thoughtful, and he suddenly looked at Colonel Ogura with strange eyes, "My real and biggest worry is..." His expression and tone were very different. It's a bit weird, "Could this plan be a big trap for the enemy army? A long-planned big conspiracy? Mr. Xiaocang, the most fundamental reason why we were able to dig the tunnel so accurately is that we accidentally got the Nanjing Army A map of the network of underground tunnels, I do not believe we will have such good luck.

It is said that this tunnel network map was accidentally left out by Jiang Weiguo when he was dealing with women..."

"There shouldn't be a problem, right?" Grand Master Ogura felt a little uneasy, "That person took the blueprint with a camera, and the original blueprint is still in Jiang Weiguo's file bag. Jiang Weiguo didn't become suspicious... Besides, Didn’t we also get the map of the tunnel network of the Chinese Army through the second channel?”

"Yes, yes!" Lieutenant General Okamura walked to the desk and picked up two copies of the tunnel network map. "We have two copies!"

"And they are exactly the same!" Mr. Ogura regained his confidence, "The two blueprints from two sources are the same, which shows that it is indeed true.

Commander, there is no need to think too badly..."

Lieutenant General Okura shook his head: "Mr. Ogura, when I think about problems, I always think in the worst direction. If I only think in the best direction, I am deceiving myself.

Many gamblers are like this. They are full of thoughts about how wonderful it is to win. They only think about winning, but they forget that the other side of winning is losing. They can't see or deliberately avoid losing. They only see winning, so they lose Bankruptcy, nothing to return.

In the army, as a senior commander, you should not have such a gambler mentality, you must plan for the worst!" He looked serious.

The night is as dark as ink, and in the dark Yangtze River, a small group of water ghost-like ghosts are swimming down the river.

These water ghosts are the Chinese Navy's "Alligator" frogman assault force (Navy Special Forces), headed by Bu Xiao who became famous in the Mutsu incident.

After the Mutsu was returned to the Japanese Navy, Bu Xiao and other frogmen did not withdraw from the war, and they were still actively active.

Right now, Bu Xiao is conducting reconnaissance activities with more than a dozen frogmen. They belong to the navy, so the target is the Japanese navy.

Bu Xiao and other frogmen set out in this way: they were first transported to the edge of the river section controlled by the Chinese navy by naval torpedo boats or gunboats, and then put on diving suits (without oxygen cylinders). Each of them carried an iron bucket, which was sealed The iron barrels were not full and could be suspended in the water. The frogmen held the iron barrels under the cover of night and floated under the surface of the Yangtze River. They drifted and swam downstream to spy on the Japanese army. The movement is mainly the movement of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Japanese Navy.

The river water in spring and summer is not as cold as in winter. The field rations of Bu Xiao and other frogmen are mainly specially imported Swiss chocolate, which can provide nutrition and calories.

"Captain, look ahead!" A frogman raised his binoculars while poking his head out of the water.

Bu Xiao also raised his binoculars, and he saw dots of lights on the Yangtze River in the distance, as if there were several boats.

"It's strange! The devil's Yangtze River Fleet was beaten up by us, so why did the devil come with another warship?" Bu Xiao was a little puzzled.