I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"After all, our troops are too weak. Even if we take Jinan, once the Japanese army counterattacks, we won't be able to defend for long!"

Zhang Yun replied: "There are many anti-Japanese armed forces in Shandong Province, both civilian and government, and they can be used by me!"

Zhao Shoushan said again: "What about the logistics supply?"

Zhang Yun replied: "Through the seizure and the airdrop of our military aircraft.

If it doesn’t work, use bayonets to fight the Japanese army in the streets!”

Zhao Shoushan said: "What should I do if I fail?"

Zhang Yun replied: "There is no battle in the world that can be guaranteed to win before it is fought. We only need to do our best!"

Zhao Shoushan said: "What should I do if I succeed?"

Zhang Yun replied: "What is the meaning of the seat of the master?"

Zhao Shoushan said: "Successful, we are also a dead end, doomed to annihilation, because Jinan is surrounded by Japanese occupation areas in all directions, we are throwing ourselves into a trap. Survive the siege.

We have only two endings, one is that the plan fails and the losses are heavy, the other is that the plan succeeds and the isolated city is defended to the death, fighting until we run out of ammunition and food, and the entire army is wiped out!"

Zhang Yun replied: "Master, as long as the goal is achieved, the whole army is wiped out! Even if our division is really wiped out, it is worth it.

Victory requires a price, and it must be piled up with countless dead people. Isn't it our natural responsibility to be part of the pile of dead people that make up our country's victory?We don't die, who dies?They all want to live by themselves and die by others, how can they win?As Chinese soldiers, in this war, as long as we can die worthwhile, we should go forward and fight to die!"

It took Zhao Shoushan a long time to ask with difficulty: "Why do you care so little about the annihilation of the entire army?"

Zhang Yun replied: "Master, we are from the Nanjing Army, have you forgotten? The Nanjing Army is an army that has been wiped out since its establishment!"

If someone reminded General Shou in the temple that "the Chinese army is planning to attack Jinan", the general in the temple would not be shocked, vigilant, or awakened. This kind of thing is simply unimaginable for the Japanese army.

After all, the current Sino-Japanese war is in the stage of "Japanese strategic offensive, Chinese military strategic defense". Where should we defend?" Because the Japanese army is the attacking side, and the attack is "invincible", it is impossible for the attacking side to think about how to launch a defense.

To give a simple example, on the first day of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, if any general of the national army thought about "where should we defend the Communist army" or "which city should we defend", he would definitely be ridiculed by his colleagues.

The same is true for the Japanese army at this time. The Japanese army firmly believes that they are attacking, and they will not think about which city in the occupied area to defend.

In the commander's headquarters of the fifth war zone, Jiang Weiguo was in a hurry, because Chiang Kai-shek no longer wanted to continue the Xuzhou battle. He was afraid that he would not be able to eat the 10th division, but he would lose his wife and lose his troops, or eat the 10th division, but pay far more than the results of the battle. He first ordered the 10th Group Army, which had already arrived in northern Anhui and was on the edge of the Xuzhou battlefield, to prepare to "go home", and then ordered the 15th and 19th Army Groups, which were participating in the battle in Xuzhou battlefield, to prepare "Ming Jin withdraws troops", and then ordered the 20th Army, which is advancing from northern Henan to the west of Shandong, and the 9th Army, which is advancing from eastern Anhui to central Jiangsu, is preparing to "coordinate" the 10th, 15th, and 19th Army that are about to withdraw from the Xuzhou battlefield. Army Group.

The five armies of the Central Army are preparing to "run away" together, which undoubtedly makes the battle situation in Xuzhou treacherous, and makes Li Zongren feel anxious, angry, and sad. These five armies were originally assigned to the fifth theater, and Li Zongren is them However, Chiang Kai-shek passed Li Zongren and gave orders to the five group armies, which completely disrupted Li Zongren's combat plan and troop deployment.

Jiang Weiguo felt the same way for Li Zongren.

In fact, Jiang Weiguo has been Chiang Kai-shek's "son" for so long, so he must have feelings for Chiang Kai-shek. For Chiang Kai-shek, Jiang Weiguo's mentality is "seven points of respect and three points of hatred". The reason for respecting Chiang Kai-shek is because Chiang Kai-shek does have advantages, strengths, and contributions to China. , and Chiang Kai-shek is also considered a good father, but Jiang Weiguo "hates" him at the same time, because he has a lot of bad problems, such as soft ears, covering confidants, nepotism, unclear rewards and punishments, vague principles, and wars, like remote control of the front line The army likes to be smart and self-assessed, to be overjoyed, self-willed, and so on.

Although the battle situation in the Xuzhou battlefield is getting more and more dangerous, the more it is at this time, the more you have to grit your teeth and persist and strengthen your confidence. As a result, Chiang Kai-shek is just the opposite. It is a major obstacle to the national army's inability to win battles.

Facing the boiling water in Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek hesitated for a long time before pouring the ladle of cold water in his hand, but when he saw that the Japanese had added three more fires to the bottom of the pot, Chiang Kai-shek immediately stopped the watering action in his hand in a hurry And try to get back the water that has been poured in.

"How can I make the old man change his mind?" Jiang Weiguo was so restless that he felt that this kind of thing was more difficult than changing his ex-girlfriend who decided to break up.

"A telegram from the 17th division!" Xiao Yao strode quickly to Jiang Weiguo with a telegram in his hands, his eyebrows filled with a special look of joy.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Weiguo took the telegram and browsed it hastily. After reading it, he widened his eyes. "What? I read it right, right? The 17th Division decided to attack Jinan?"

"Very good expression!" Xiao Yao seemed very satisfied with Jiang Weiguo's reaction, "You are very surprised, and we are very surprised, which means that the Japanese must not have thought of it.

Isn't a feasible combat plan that is completely unexpected to the enemy the key to victory by surprise? "

"Feasibility? Is it feasible?" Jiang Weiguo was still incredulous.

"I've researched it!" Xiao Yao's tone was very affirmative, "As long as the plan is rigorous, the organization is strong, the action is decisive, and with your full support, the feasibility is more than [-]%!"

Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette and smoked deeply: "This trick is really unexpected. If it succeeds, then... the benefits and positive impact will be very huge, but, but... the 17th Division Regardless of success or failure, it is very likely that the entire army will be wiped out!"

"They are already mentally prepared for this!" Xiao Yao looked at Jiang Weiguo with firm eyes, "In addition..." He lowered his voice, "The principal is now hesitant about the battle of Xuzhou, so if the 17th Division can really win Going to Jinan is no less than giving the headmaster a shot in the arm, allowing him to regain his confidence!"

"Yes, yes, you are right!" Jiang Weiguo nodded again and again. He knew that Chiang Kai-shek was in a period of low confidence, so he didn't want to persist. If Jinan was restored, Chiang Kai-shek could indeed regain his confidence. Infinity, at that time, even if Xuzhou is really lost and the national army regains Jinan (most likely only temporarily), it will add another point to this battle.

"How should I support them?" Jiang Weiguo made up his mind and slammed out the cigarette butts.

"Airplanes! They need airplanes urgently!" Xiao Yao obviously had an idea, "They need as many transport planes as possible! Give them airdrops! And...soldiers!"

"Airborne troops?" Jiang Weiguo was not slow-minded.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded, "They need more troops, the more the better, because after they take Jinan, they will inevitably fight a city defense battle. In addition, we must ask the principal to order Shang Zhen's 20th Army to attack Luxi. A strong attack, attracting the Japanese troops in Shandong Province, rushing to help the 17th Division that has already captured Jinan by then, and Liu Jianxu's 10th Army should also be thrown into the Luxi battlefield. If possible, Li Yutang's and Song Xilian's troops It is also transferred, and Zhang Zhizhong's 9th Army can contain the rear of the 9th Division. After all, we have no plan to eat the 9th Division, and we are currently unable to eat the Division!"

"That's right! That's right!" Jiang Weiguo nodded repeatedly.

"Hurry up and work quickly!" Xiao Yao looked very excited, "There is not much time to waste, the 106th Division is almost here, we must race against time!"

On August 8, the Chinese army launched a military operation to recover Jinan;

On August 8, Jinan was recovered by the 15th Division of the Chinese Army.

When Jiang Weiguo received the good news from the 17th Division, he could hardly believe it, because the process was surprisingly smooth.

According to common sense and the speculation of ordinary people (including Jiang Weiguo), the recovery of Jinan, a provincial capital city, must be an arduous and fierce battle, and it will definitely be dangerous, heroic, and bloody. "It seems that I have opened a plug-in."

The action of the national army to recover Jinan made Jiang Weiguo couldn't help thinking of the coup known as the "September Revolution" planned and implemented by the Libyan dictator Gaddafi in history. Before September 1969, Libya was ruled by Iraq. The Dris Dynasty, Gaddafi, who was only a lieutenant officer in the Libyan army at the time, decided to launch a military coup to overthrow the dynasty. On September 9, the coup began and succeeded. However, this coup that allowed Gaddafi to rule Libya for 9 years was How did you succeed?The process is utterly chaotic, full of loopholes, and ridiculously ridiculous like a bad farce.

After the coup began, Gaddafi asked his assistant to fly to the capital’s military camp to take over. When the assistant arrived at the airport, he found that the plane was full, so he had to rely on his acquaintances to get on the plane. After arriving at the capital airport, the assistant stopped a taxi. Going to the military camp, the result was that he left the weapon and bullets on the car when he got off the car. As for Gaddafi himself, when he was going to another military camp, two military policemen from the government army came and asked them to help repair the motorcycle and sent them away. After the military police, he set off in a hurry, but when he walked halfway, he found that he was the only commander on the road. His troops actually went the wrong way at a three-way intersection. After reorganizing the troops in a panic, 600 coup soldiers attacked the capital. But when they found out that they only brought 1050 rounds of ammunition, less than two rounds of ammunition per person.

Such a ridiculous coup has actually achieved a complete success.

Sometimes, major events are not as "thrilling" as they are in movies, but they are actually very ordinary.

Of course, the 17th Division of the National Army's raid on Jinan could not be as farce as Gaddafi's "September Revolution". Fully prepared, thrilling in the process.

The three regiments of the 17th Division gathered in the forested areas in the south and southwest of Jinan at night and night, preparing to concentrate their forces on a surprise attack on Jinan. Since the troops were out at night, it was already early in the morning when they arrived at the location where they were preparing to launch an attack. In addition, Since the closer to Jinan, the density of the Japanese army, the Japanese eyeliner, and the density of the traitors bought by the Japanese will be greater. If you want to stay for a day and then march at night, the possibility of exposure is very high. At this time, Zhang Yun came up with a crazy idea: the whole division put on Japanese military uniforms and swaggered towards Jinan City.

"You're crazy!" Zhao Shoushan was shocked, "Sent out during the day? The possibility of exposure is too great!"

"We are all wearing Japanese military uniforms! What are you afraid of?" Zhang Yunman didn't care. The troops harassed the Japanese army so many times, and after each successful ambush, they stripped off the military uniforms from the Japanese army's corpses. The main purpose was to collect supplies, but at this time it played a major role. effect.

"The Japanese army doesn't have enough uniforms!"

"Let the brothers who don't have Japanese uniforms pretend to be prisoners captured alive by the Imperial Japanese Army! Our identity is a Japanese army that escorted the Chinese prisoners from the Xuzhou battlefield to Jinan!"

"Do you think the Japanese soldiers are fools? They will be discovered!"

"Master seat! We are guilty of being thieves! As long as we are not guilty, we will not be regarded as thieves!"

"You take it for granted! The Japanese army knows the existence of our division!"

"The more this is the case, the less likely the Japanese army will think that we will be like this! But we are just like this!"

"Stop joking! Fighting is no joke!"

"We have no choice! We are so close to Jinan now, and if we wait another day, it will be easy to be exposed, and the Japanese army in Jinan will be prepared!"

The 17th Division originally planned to dispatch at night, but another condition did not allow it, because Jiang Weiguo planned to send the airborne troops of the national army to participate in the battle. If the airborne troops wanted to parachute into Jinan City, the transport fleet must be dispatched during the day.

If the 17th Division is dispatched at night, the airborne troops who were airdropped into Jinan City during the day must have been killed by the Japanese army in Jinan City and suffered heavy losses. Therefore, the 17th Division must be dispatched during the day. Zhao Shoushan had no choice but to accept Zhang Yun Suggestion (the airborne troops of the national army may be able to launch airborne operations at dusk, so that the airborne troops that fall into the city can get the cover of night in the next battle, but the number of national army transport planes is limited, and only a certain amount can be airdropped at a time. The number of people, if the airborne operation is carried out at dusk, then only one wave of paratroopers can be airdropped. The number of people is limited, so the airdrop must be carried out during the day, airdropped in multiple waves, and try to put as many airborne troops into Jinan City.

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On the morning of August 8th, the national army launched the campaign to recover Jinan. At 15:10 am, the first wave of transport aircraft departed from multiple airports in Xuzhou and flew to Jinan under the escort of fighter jets. There were more than 50 transport aircraft and more than 100 fighter jets in total. At one time, more than 900 paratroopers were airdropped into the city of Jinan (not including more than 100 paratroopers who were thrown outside the city or fell into the Yellow River).

During the march, many Japanese aircraft (these Japanese aircraft intercepted the national army fleet) found the "imperial army" on the ground, but the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division on the ground happily waved the sun flag together, making the Japanese army in the air The plane was beyond doubt.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the second wave of transport planes of the national army dropped paratroopers to Jinan City, the 17th Division had already arrived outside Jinan City, and the whole division immediately swarmed into the city amidst the sound of killing.

Chapter 366 Iron Blood Fight (1)

The surprise attack of the 17th Division of the Nanjing Army on Jinan was praised by Li Zongren as "the most exciting battle in the Xuzhou battle. During this period, when the situation of the national army deteriorated in an all-round way, it produced a major effect that could be called turning the tide and turning the tide.

The battle process of the raid on Jinan was not difficult, and it went surprisingly smoothly.

The straight-line distance between Jinan and Xuzhou is 220 kilometers, and it is about 100 kilometers away from the northern edge of Yimeng Mountain (the entire mountainous area of ​​Yimeng Mountain is about 1800 square kilometers). As far as the mobile 17th Division is concerned, it only takes half a day to march 100 kilometers in a hurry.

The 17th Division's raid was successful due to many factors. The biggest factor is that the Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese army would go deep and drive straight to Jinan alone.

The Japanese army did not think of this, firstly because there was no such precedent, the overall situation of "China defense against Japanese attack" in the Sino-Japanese War made the Japanese army unable to imagine this at all, and secondly because the Chinese army that raided Jinan was certain to die.

The logic is simple: if the raid fails, the counterattacking Japanese army will be strangled outside the city of Jinan; Completely regaining Luxi, therefore, the Chinese army who raided Jinan was equivalent to throwing themselves into a trap, and in the end there would only be a dead end.

Therefore, the high-level Japanese army never dreamed that the Chinese army would raid Jinan so "boldly".

Looking at the entire Chinese army, only the Nanjing Army with both strength and courage can do this.

The night before the operation, the three main regiments of the 17th Division, which were active in different places in southern Shandong, successively passed through the mountainous and forested areas of Central Lu, and gathered in the forests near Pingyin County in the southwest of Jinan, in the forests near Tai'an County in the south, and in the forests in the southeast. In the mountains and forests near Laiwu County, they communicated with each other through radio stations to ensure that the action time was consistent, and then marched together towards Jinan City in a hurry.

The three regiments were all disguised as Japanese soldiers. Because the Japanese army did not have enough uniforms, some officers and soldiers disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers, some officers and soldiers disguised as wounded Japanese soldiers sitting in the car, and some officers and soldiers disguised as Chinese soldiers captured by the Japanese army.

Among the three regiments, the 171st regiment had the most daring style. The regiment hardly covered up, and went straight ahead on the highway. The whole regiment encountered three groups of Japanese troops on the way. The scale was not large, just at the squad level. When a large group of "friendly troops" drove forward, they were completely unprepared. The officers and soldiers of the 417th Special Operations Battalion at the lead approached the front, chatting and laughing in Japanese, and then all of them were solved with a machine gun (the submachine gun was inconvenient to take out) , There is also a group of Japanese troops guarding a bridge. The 171st Regiment swaggers on to the bridge. The leading officers and soldiers even shake hands with the Japanese army "friendlyly" to paralyze the Japanese army to prevent the Japanese army from seeing through and blowing up the bridge, and wait for the whole regiment to cross the bridge smoothly Afterwards, the officers and soldiers immediately "turned their faces and refused to recognize anyone", and wiped out all the Japanese troops with a machine gun.

"The most dangerous place is the safest place!" Zhang Yun, the team leader, was very proud.

The troops were advancing with flying sand and rocks, and suddenly there was the sound of an aircraft engine in the sky. The officers and soldiers looked up, and there was a commotion immediately, because it was two Japanese aircraft with the Rising Sun military emblem sprayed on their fuselages.

The two Japanese planes were surprised to see an "imperial army" like the Nationalist on the ground, and immediately swooped and circled. Many officers and soldiers were a little nervous. Zhang Yun shouted: "What are you panicking! All the devils on the ground have been deceived by us. Don’t the devils in the sky still have piercing eyes? Just learn from me!” He climbed onto the cab of the military vehicle, waved the sun flag at the Japanese planes in mid-air, and cursed at the same time: “I’m sorry for being a Japanese ancestor! Hit me!"

The officers and soldiers waved the sun flag "joyfully" one after another, and at the same time yelled at the Japanese planes in midair.

The two Japanese planes circled several times amidst the yelling and cursing of the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army on the ground. Naturally, the pilots in the cockpit could not hear the Chinese yelling on the ground, but only saw the sun flags waving. The cheering pilot flew back and forth in mid-air quite proudly, and gently shook the wings to signal the "imperial army" on the ground, and finally flew away complacently.

"Fuck you!" The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army on the ground laughed and cursed together.

The Japanese army in Jinan City consisted of the 17st Infantry Regiment of the 81th Division, a brigade of the engineering regiment and a brigade of the logistics regiment. About 5000 people, the commander is not Lieutenant General Hirono Taiji, the head of the 3000th Division, but Major General Gunmu Harumatsu, because Lieutenant General Hirono flew to Linyi yesterday to meet with the general in the temple and report on the "public order problem" and Discuss the formation of the puppet army in Shandong Province, so I am not in Jinan City.

At 10:1000 in the morning, the Chinese Air Force fleet appeared over Jinan and dropped more than 100 paratroopers. Among them, more than 900 were thrown outside the city and even fell into the Yellow River, and more than [-] paratroopers successfully fell into the city of Jinan.

Major General Gunmu was shocked when he received the report. He couldn't judge the purpose of the Chinese army's airdropping paratroopers to Jinan City. In fact, Major General Gunmu saw the paratroopers fighting for the first time, so he was in a hurry and didn't dare to slack off. He hastily dispatched two infantry brigades into the urban area to search and suppress those Chinese paratroopers, making the number of Japanese infantry defending Jinan City only a brigade of more than a thousand people, so fragile that it can be called paper. This is the purpose of the Chinese paratroopers. Use them as bait and focus to attract Japanese troops and lay a successful foundation for the 17th Division's surprise attack on the city.

It is worth mentioning that in this Jinan raid, how should the national army paratroopers be used?Hu Qiao, head of the paratrooper regiment, Cheng De, deputy head of the paratroopers, and other officers put forward three plans: First, carry out airdrops before the 17th Division attacked the city, and seize important places and facilities of the Japanese army in the city, such as railway stations, headquarters, and material bases, etc. The disadvantage of this tactic is that the paratroopers are not strong enough to truly capture and control the important places and facilities of the Japanese army alone, and they will startle the enemy, making the Japanese army realize that the national army is about to attack Jinan, which will increase the difficulty of the 17th Division's siege; When the 17th Division attacked the city, it carried out airdrops, broke them into pieces, mixed into the city to fight "guerrilla warfare", disturbed the Japanese army, contained the Japanese army, and made it easier for the 17th Division to succeed; third, launched airdrops after the 17th Division attacked the city. The "flying infantry" method was used to increase the troops of the 17th Division that had already occupied Jinan City.

After repeated consideration, Jiang Weiguo decided to adopt the second, the safest and most insured option.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the national army's transport fleet airdropped the second wave of paratroopers to Jinan City, the 17th Division had already arrived outside Jinan City, and the 171st Division, which was advancing the fastest, took the lead.