I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Mr. Matsuura!" Looking at Lieutenant General Matsuura, the general in the temple seemed to speak earnestly, "Originally, after your 106th Division was thrown into the battle in Xuzhou, everything was settled, but...Jinan was unfortunately defeated by the Chinese Army. There was a loophole, so your division must undertake the task of recovering Jinan, and then move to Xuzhou.

Your division will not go to Xuzhou next, go to Jinan, and recover Jinan, but the front line in Xuzhou is tight, I really want to give you time, but the war situation can't give you too much time!" He raised a finger, "One week, take Is it possible to go to Jinan?Matsuura-kun!"

Lieutenant General Matsuura stood at attention solemnly: "Excuse me, Your Excellency, how many troops are there in Jinan's China Army?"

"It should be a teacher, more than [-] people!"

Lieutenant General Matsuura's next reaction surprised the general in the temple. He laughed and said, "One division? One week? Your Excellency, you have no confidence in Matsuura and the 106th Division! The quickest is three days, the slowest In five days, I can take Jinan!"

The general in the temple was overjoyed: "So, it couldn't be better! Mr. Matsuura, please!"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty General!" Lieutenant General Matsuura looked arrogant, "You will be able to wait for the success report from the 106th Division soon!"

Chapter 368 Iron and Blood Battle (3)

Three Japanese Type [-] bombers flew over Jinan unhurriedly, dropping pieces of paper one after another, making Jinan "snow in August".

Residents in the city picked up the paper and found that it was a leaflet from the Japanese army. The leaflet said:

The imperial army of the Japanese Empire sent troops to China to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek's brutal and corrupt rule, and to guide the vast number of good people in China to build the emperor's paradise in East Asia.

The imperial army is by no means the enemy of the good people of China. The enemy of the good people of China is the Kuomintang group of thieves headed by Chiang Kai-shek.

The imperial army is the teacher of civilization, and the imperial army will treat the good Chinese people who abandon the dark and turn to the light, but the imperial army is also a mighty teacher, and they will deal with the stubborn Chinese anti-Japanese elements, regardless of the army or civilians, after repeated admonitions are ineffective. means.

Jinan was captured by the Kuomintang army because the Kuomintang army took advantage of the vacancy and entered opportunistically. Right now, the 106th Division of the Imperial Army’s elite army is about to regain Jinan. They must be properly resettled, and the leaders will be rewarded with generous rewards. If the soldiers and civilians in the city are obsessed with ignorance and try to hit the rocks with eggs, the imperial army will punish them severely after they regain Jinan. Keep!I hope the army and civilians in Jinan earnestly warn them!

There is more than one flyer, there are two in total, and the second one says:

The imperial army told the loyal soldiers and civilians in Jinan City that those who assisted the imperial army in killing the recalcitrant elements of the Kuomintang army were rewarded heavily.

If you kill a soldier, you will be rewarded with 50 yuan and 5000 acres of land; if you kill a lieutenant, you will be rewarded with [-] yuan and [-] acres of land; if you kill a school official, you will be rewarded with [-] yuan and [-] acres of land. Yuan, [-] mu of rewarded land, who killed Zhao Shoushan, the leader of the Kuomintang army in the city, will be rewarded with [-] yuan and [-] mu of rewarded land.

When Japanese planes dropped leaflets into the city of Jinan, several civilians outside the city whose families were kidnapped by the Japanese army and forced to work for the Japanese army entered the city tremblingly, and sent a letter written by Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, head of the 106th Division of the Japanese army. Send the letter to Zhao Shoushan.

After opening the envelope, Zhao Shoushan read on the letter:

The imperial army told Commander Zhao Shoushan, the garrison of Jinan City, that you are fighting against tens of thousands of soldiers of our imperial army with one division. The imperial army broke through Jinan and wiped out the nobles. Your death without a place to bury your body is the second most important crime for you. It is your greatest sin to harm countless good people in Jinan. On that day, hundreds of thousands of civilians in Jinan will be severely punished by the imperial army and massacre the city. At that time, the lives of the people in Jinan will be devastated and countless civilians will die.

Your Excellency is sure to be defeated, why bother to harm countless good people in Jinan?Could it be that your Excellency is really willing to trap countless civilians in Jinan to death for your own honor and disgrace?Although your Excellency is dead, wouldn't you be afraid of a hundred years of infamy?The imperial army understands your embarrassment. At the beginning of the war, you can "symbolic resistance" for a few hours to preserve your reputation and go up. Then lead your troops to leave Jinan and retreat westward to the Luxi area controlled by the main force of your army. The imperial army is willing With the honor of the soldiers, we will "chasing but not attack" your troops, and send you a safe exit from the country.

The kindness and sincerity of the imperial army, I also want to deeply understand your Excellency.

Obviously, Lieutenant General Matsuura is using the massacre to intimidate the defenders and civilians in Jinan City, hoping to achieve the effect of "attacking the heart first" and "subduing the enemy without fighting", so as to recover Jinan City quickly and without bloodshed. , After all, the 10th Division has been beaten half to death by the Chinese army on the Xuzhou battlefield. If it continues to consume, the 10th Division is very likely to be wiped out in Xuzhou, so the 106th Division does not have much time I dawdled in Jinan.

"This Junrokuro Matsuura is so poisonous!" After reading Lieutenant General Matsuura's personal letter, Zhao Shoushan sighed, shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Why did the teacher say that?" Zhang Yun asked.

Zhao Shoushan looked at Zhang Yun: "Can we hold Jinan?"

Zhang Yun shrugged: "Definitely not!"

"Then what is our battle goal?"

"The longer the delay, the better the time, and the more Japanese troops are restrained and killed, the better!"

"In other words, Jinan must be lost, right?"

"certainly!"

"After the city was broken, all of us were benevolent for the country and died, but what about the hundreds of thousands of people in the city?" Zhao Shoushan looked miserable.

"Master, you are worrying too much!" Zhang Yun said seriously, "What does Songpu want to do? Isn't it just to intimidate us? Can we be intimidated and run away? If this is the case, how many times will the devils beat us in the future? Easy? Immediately after the soldiers approach the city, issue an ultimatum, surrender to avoid death, and if you resist, break the city and slaughter the city. In this way, isn’t the Japanese army really invincible? Master, we cannot and should not succumb to the Japanese’s despotic power!”

"I know, of course I know!" Zhao Shoushan sighed, "The common people are suffering! In addition, I am worried that this method of the Japanese army will affect the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city!"

Zhao Shoushan's worries were not unfounded. After reading the leaflets of the Japanese army, the soldiers and civilians in the city inevitably had great ideological turmoil. The soldiers were fine, but mainly the citizens.

Although ordinary people have a passion, they have too many worries. They all have family members, parents, lovers, and children.

After reading the leaflets of the Japanese army, the citizens whispered and discussed:

"Look, what do the Japanese mean?"

"What do you mean? Can't understand? The Japanese said that if we don't surrender, they will massacre the city after they take Jinan!"

"What? Massacre the city? The Japanese want to kill the entire city?"

"Oh my god! It's fine if I die, won't my wife and children also be killed by the Japanese?"

"What are you panicking! Didn't the chief of the national army say that? As long as we grit our teeth and persist for ten days, the national army will come! It is impossible for the Japanese to break into Jinan City!"

Although Zhao Shoushan and other high-level officials knew that the war was ruthless, they couldn't bear the fact that the people in the city, especially women and children, were actually massacred by the Japanese army. However, they couldn't really abandon Jinan City, so they racked their brains to find other ways solve.

Zhao Shoushan planned to implement a strategy of delaying troops with the Japanese army, so he wrote back to Lieutenant General Matsuura, pretending to agree to abandon the city and leave, but asked the Japanese army to open the way and let the women and children in the city leave first.

However, Lieutenant General Matsuura was very cunning. He replied to Zhao Shoushan: "If your Excellency is sincerely willing to abandon the city and leave, you only need to leave with the army. Why do you evacuate the women and children first? Your Excellency will either take the whole city to die with jade, or take the army. Leave, no third choice!"

Facing Lieutenant General Matsuura's shrewdness, Zhao Shoushan had no choice but to do anything. After all, Jinan City was surrounded by Japanese-occupied areas in all directions, and it was impossible to evacuate the women, children and civilians in the city.

In addition, Zhao Shoushan fell into great pain and guilt. Facing the ultimatum of the Japanese army and the threat of massacre, although the civilians in Jinan were very nervous, they did not panic because the 17th Division lied about "As long as you persist for ten days, the main force of the national army will be able to rush to Jinan for rescue." Therefore, the common people in Jinan think that "after ten days of persistence, the main force of the national army will come, Jinan will not fall, and the Japanese army will naturally not be able to slaughter the city." There is no doubt , the 17th Division lied to the civilians in Jinan, so Zhao Shoushan was extremely guilty. He knew that even if he really persisted for ten days, the main force of the national army would not come, Jinan would still fall, and the civilians in the city would still be massacred, but If Zhao Shoushan told the truth, "People in Jinan, in fact, the main force of the national army will not come. The end result of our hard work is that our entire army will be wiped out, the city will be destroyed, and you will be slaughtered by devils", needless to say, People in the city must be in turmoil, so Zhao Shoushan can't tell the truth.

Heartbroken, Zhao Shoushan telegraphed the situation to Jiang Weiguo.

Jiang Weiguo was very uncomfortable when he learned about it. He must do his best to prevent the "Jinan Massacre" from happening. After much deliberation, he finally ordered the relevant departments of the Fifth Theater to quickly print a batch of leaflets, and then dispatched an air force transport plane to fly to the Leaflets were dropped on the heads of the 106th Division advancing from Jinan.

The flyer said:

The 106th Division is from Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, and the head of the division, Junrokuro Matsuura, is from Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. If you dare to harm my compatriots in Jinan, the Chinese army will land in Japan in the future. If you don’t kill all the people in Kumamoto and Fukuoka, you will avenge our compatriots in Jinan , I, Jiang Weiguo, swear not to be a human being.

Lieutenant General Matsuura must have seen Jiang Weiguo's leaflet. As for his reaction after reading the leaflet and what he thought in his heart, we don't know, but he must be very aware of Jiang Weiguo's methods. He was killed by Jiang Weiguo, and Lieutenant General Nakajima Kinzago, the head of the division, was captured and then ordered to be executed by Jiang Weiguo. Lieutenant General Matsuura knew all this. As for whether he had the determination to attack Jinan City and slaughter the city, the possibility is not great. , because all major countries in the world are paying attention to Xuzhou and Jinan. The Japanese army really massacred the city, and the international impact must be very bad. The Germans will not allow it first. The Germans hope that China and Japan can shake hands and make peace. If The Japanese army massacred the city in China, and the difficulty of realizing the "Germany, China and Japan" tripartite alliance conceived by the Germans must be even worse. Therefore, the German government will put pressure on Tokyo. Naturally, Lieutenant General Matsuura will not really massacre the city. He was just intimidating and blackmailing, and with Jiang Weiguo's warning, he didn't even have the courage to massacre tens of thousands of people at once.

In the end, Lieutenant General Matsuura's vision of "conquering the heart" and "surrendering the enemy without fighting" did not come true. Only a few people fled from the city of Jinan, and more than 17% of the population were determined to defend Jinan as hard as a rock. , swearing to defend their hometown to the death, truly united as one, united as one (the lie told by the [-]th division did play a great role in stabilizing people's hearts).

On August 8, the Jinan Defense War broke out.

At 106 a.m., the vanguard of the 111th Division, the 113th Wing of the 106th Brigade and the 106th Cavalry Wing of the division first arrived at Caishi Town in the east of Jinan City (the 113th Division has a total strength of more than [-] troops. , so many soldiers and a large amount of ordnance and supplies will definitely not be transported at one time. The division traveled from Japan to Qingdao by boat, and was divided into two or three echelons to go ashore and march one after another. Therefore, the division did not rush to Jinan all at once. Battlefield), the captain of the [-]th Regiment, Sakano Kenshizuo, looked at Jinan City, which was close at hand, and his heart was about to move. He had two choices at this time. One was to wait on the spot and wait for the follow-up main force of the division to arrive. The second is to attack the city immediately.

Colonel Sakano was very inclined towards the latter, and he said to several captains in the regiment: "In the beginning, a single regiment of the [-]th Division won Jinan, but now we have two regiments, it is not only natural to win Jinan, but even It’s a bit too much to win!” However, Sakano didn’t dare to make his own claims, so he sent a telegram to the head of the brigade, Major General Yamaji Tsune, asking for “combat guidance”. I asked Lieutenant General Matsuura, the commander of the division, and Lieutenant General Matsuura replied: "You can test the attack. If the enemy's defense is weak, take advantage of the victory to pursue and expand the results of the battle. If the enemy's defense is strong, defend on the spot and wait for the main force of the division!"

After receiving the permission of Lieutenant General Matsuura, Sakano and the captain of the 106th Cavalry Regiment, Masao Kinko, communicated with each other. The two parties agreed that the 113th Regiment was an infantry unit, so they launched an attack, and the 106th Cavalry Regiment was responsible for covering the 113th Regiment. Immediately, Sakano couldn't wait to launch an attack on Caishi Town. After fighting for more than half an hour, the defenders in the town abandoned their positions and fled in embarrassment. They rushed to the urban area behind. The Japanese casualties were less than 100.

Dazuo Sakano was overjoyed. He drew out his saber, and shouted loudly and grandly: "Assault all! Enter Jinan! Take Jinan!" The brilliant record of taking Jinan by a brigade of the 10th Division made other Japanese troops He was very jealous, and Lieutenant General Sakano was also very envious. He was eager to become famous in the first battle and regained Jinan with a single regiment (the 106th Division has more than 113 troops, and the [-]th Regiment has about [-] troops).

In the next hour or so of fighting, the 113th Regiment could be said to be "invincible, invincible, and invincible". The Jinan defenders attacked by it were as vulnerable as "turkey tile dogs". Chong, and even went to the Daming Lake area in the city, but soon, the 113th Regiment was extremely happy, and the 17nd Regiment, the 172rd Regiment, and thousands of elite paratroopers of the 173th Division surrounded the 113th Regiment fiercely and fiercely. The left and right flanks of the 113th Regiment, regardless of their heads, got into the city and were almost surrounded in the east of Daming Lake. Then, the 171 elite veterans of the 2st Regiment led more than 113 veterans to attack the Japanese for the first time. The enthusiastic and high-morale militia roared towards the 113th Regiment with the momentum of Mount Tai, and the whole city of Jinan was filled with shouts of "beating devils". The 17th Regiment lost two-fifths of its troops. Sakano hurriedly led his troops to break out of the city. As a result, he just ran to the flat ground in the east of the city. Ma Biao, the deputy commander of the 1th Division and the temporary commander of the 3000st Cavalry Division Leading more than 17 cavalry to charge head-on, as well as hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars full of soldiers (about one-third of these tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were previously captured Japanese equipment), the first The mechanized units of the 400th Division rushed to the Japanese cavalry regiment, while the Majiajun cavalry rushed to the Japanese infantry. After a field battle like cutting melons and vegetables, Sakano successfully changed from the captain of the regiment to the "captain of the reinforced brigade". A total of more than 700 people were killed and injured in the entire alliance, and only [-] people escaped from Jinan City.

Among the dead and wounded Japanese soldiers, more than 500 died in the battle, and among the 900 wounded soldiers, half were taken out of the city by the Japanese army, and the other half were thrown in the city before the Japanese army had time to take them away. The wounded soldiers of the Japanese army in the "Military and Civilian Boundless Ocean" ended badly. Basically, they were beaten to death by the Jinan soldiers and civilians who were so excited because they attacked the Japanese army for the first time. As for the wild dogs that attacked, the 106th Regiment of the Japanese Army also killed and injured more than 400 people in the melee.

Being passively beaten is definitely not the style of the Nanjing Army. After driving the 113th Regiment out of the city, the 17th Division immediately launched a fierce pursuit.

The 17th Division was originally a highly mobile unit, so it was able to pursue and kill the Japanese army all the way. If it weren't for the 111th Regiment of the 147th Brigade of the Japanese Army, they had already rushed outside Jinan City to meet the 113th Regiment and the 106th Regiment. The 113th Cavalry Wing and the [-]th Wing are almost about to be broken up.

After the victory of the flag, the city of Jinan was full of cheers, and the confidence of the soldiers and civilians increased greatly. The people in Jinan especially beamed and cheered endlessly.

In fact, Zhao Shoushan knew very well that the reason for the victory was that the Japanese army was too careless. The 17th Division waited for work and lured the enemy into the depths before closing the door and beating dogs, thus achieving an initial victory. In addition, more than 400 enemies were killed in this battle. People (more than 17 Japanese soldiers were killed in the battle, and the rest were wounded Japanese soldiers who fell in the city and were killed by militia civilians). There were nearly 2000 people, and the militiamen who assisted in the battle suffered more than 4000 casualties. The ratio of battle results to battle damage is actually very disturbing.

The real battle has not yet begun.

"Baga!" After receiving the report of the defeat of the 113th Regiment, Lieutenant General Matsuura almost exploded his lungs. It took him a lot of effort to control the urge to ask Sakano to have a laparotomy. More than 400 people were killed and injured. It's not a trivial matter, but it's not a big one either. Lieutenant General Matsuura was annoyed that he had just boasted in front of the general in the temple, but the troops had a bad start and suffered a defeat, which made him feel very useless. The reason why he didn't let Sakano went to have a laparotomy because he didn't want to make this defeat even more ugly. "As soon as he came up, he was maimed and the leader of the regiment killed himself by caesarean section" must be very harsh. After all, the captain of the regiment can't die. It can be temporarily reduced to more than 400 people, and the extra 2000 people can be transferred to the next battle.

After holding back his anger, Lieutenant General Matsuura calmly dispatched troops and lined up his troops. The 111th Brigade of the division had all arrived, along with the 106th Cavalry Regiment and the 136th Cavalry Regiment, another brigade of the division. The 106th Brigade will take a day or two to arrive, and the 106th Artillery Regiment, the 106th Supplies Regiment, and the 113th Engineer Regiment will take more than three days to arrive. Lieutenant General Matsuura knows that Troops go on the ground one after another. That is the most inferior refueling tactic. It will definitely not work. The 10th Regiment is the best lesson. However, it will take a little time to wait for the whole division to arrive at the city of Jinan. It seems too much. Although three to five days is not long, the Xuzhou battlefield is extremely tight. The 10th Division has begun to be sent to hell by the Chinese army. is urgent.

After repeated thinking, Lieutenant General Matsuura decided to "launch a feint attack in the east of the city, and at the same time use a main brigade to cross the mountains in the south of Jinan City, break into the city, and tear the integrity of the defense line of the defending troops."

"Your Excellency, Head of the Division!" Chief of Staff Akiyama Yoshitaka asked, "The north of Jinan is the Yellow River, the east and west are flat land, and the south is mountains. The Chinese army broke through from the west, what should we do? Isn't it impossible to stop it?"

"Confused!" Lieutenant General Matsuura said displeasedly, "If they are forced to abandon the city and flee by us, wouldn't it be in our arms? Our goal is to take Jinan, not to destroy them! We are very busy now and have no time to clean up. They, when the overall situation is settled, it is not too late to clean up these hateful residues!"

"Hay! Your Excellency, Head of the Division!" Akiyama Colonel nodded again and again.

"By the way!" Lieutenant General Matsuura added, "Akiyama-kun, you will be responsible for two things right away. One is to contact the Army Air Force. Our division needs bombers to bomb Jinan. The other is to form the division's 'special warfare brigade'. Relevant ordnance and equipment have been transported from Manchuria to Qingdao, we need to take Jinan quickly, and the use of special bombs (gas bombs) is a necessary and necessary means!"

Chapter 369 Iron and Blood Battle (4)

On the morning of August 8, Lieutenant General Matsuura personally commanded the 19th Brigade of the 106th Division to launch a violent attack on Jinan City after a relatively strict subordinate. The area launched a feigned offensive attack, trying to attract the main force of the Jinan defenders to the east of Jinan City, while the 111th Wing of the brigade quietly detoured to the Changcheng Ridge, Paoma Ridge, Ladder Mountain, Heiniuzhai and other mountainous areas in the south of Jinan City. , Over the mountains, suddenly inserted into the central urban area of ​​Jinan City, the inside should be combined with the outside, smashing the overall defense line of the Jinan defenders.

Of the two regiments, the 147th regiment is fully staffed with more than 113 troops. The 1600th regiment was severely damaged by the Jinan defenders yesterday because it underestimated the enemy. (excluding wounded soldiers), which is equivalent to a reinforced brigade.

Lieutenant General Matsuura was extremely annoyed at the stupid behavior of the 113th Regiment Captain Sakano yesterday. In order to save the face of himself and the 106th Division, he did not allow Sakano to have a laparotomy, and gave him this "excuse me" Chance.

"If you can't win with one blow, you will either die in battle or have your stomach cut open. Don't come to see me. I don't want to do it myself!" Lieutenant General Matsuura ordered Sakano Sister coldly.

"Hay! Thank you, Your Excellency, Division Commander, for your kindness! This subordinate vows to complete the task to the death!" Colonel Sakano was ashamed and furious.

When the Japanese attack began, thousands of officers and soldiers of the 17th Division were holding a special oath ceremony in the city. Speaking of which, this was also a traditional style brought from the Nanjing Army.

The venue of the ceremony was an old mansion on Jingsi Road and Xiaoweiliu Road in the commercial port of Jinan City. Director Cai Gongshi and other 17 diplomats were massacred here by the Japanese army. Then, the Japanese army went on a rampage in Jinan City, killing and wounding more than 11000 Chinese soldiers and civilians, and more than 6000 people were killed.

At this time, the ruins of the Negotiation Office seemed to have become a large mourning hall, with incense candles and tributes, plain cloth and white silk, and the atmosphere was solemn and heavy. One or two temporary spirit tablets, the small one is engraved with "the spiritual tablet of Mr. Cai Gongshi, the first anti-Japanese martyr in the Republic of China", and the large one is engraved with "the spiritual tablet of more than [-] compatriots in Jinan who died tragically in the Jinan tragedy".

"Ten years!" Zhang Yun, who planned and presided over the swearing-in ceremony, said loudly with tears in his eyes, "Ten years ago, the pirates killed Mr. Cai Gongshi in Jinan and killed more than [-] Jinan compatriots. We dare not forget the bloody feud before! Now, we are going to take revenge! Mr. Cai Gongshi and more than [-] compatriots in Jinan, we are sorry for you! We made you wait for ten years! But we will not let you wait any longer! You have died unjustly and tragically, and now we will use the heads of Japanese pirates to make you smile! We will definitely avenge you! Please watch your spirits in heaven!" He suddenly turned around and faced thousands of officers and soldiers at the scene, "Brother Ladies!" He raised his right fist, "Blood for blood!"

"Blood debts!" ​​All the officers and soldiers, whose eyes were shattered, chewed their teeth and bled, uttered earth-shattering roars together.

Li Zhiyuan, the battalion commander of the 171st Battalion (Mechanized Infantry Battalion) of the 1st Regiment, rushed over with a group of officers and soldiers: "Regiment seat! Eight!" He gestured to a group of soldiers behind him, and the soldiers turned to eight Japanese prisoners, "Our battalion Just started a fierce battle with the Japanese army in Daxinzhuang, caught eight bastards, send them here first!"

"Good time!" Zhang Yun looked at the eight Japanese prisoners who were all seriously injured, "It was the 6th Division that killed Jinan back then, and you are the 106th Division. Good, very good, the wrong has its head, the debt has its owner, and you have died completely without injustice.

You bastards, when you killed Mr. Cai Gongshi, you actually cut off his nose, ears, gouged out his tongue, and eyes. Today we will repay him in the same way.

Li Zhiyuan! "

"Understood!" Li Zhiyuan waved his hand, and eight soldiers with big arms and round waists came forward with bayonets in their hands, and cut off the noses, ears, tongues, Eyes, and finally beheaded, eight bloody heads were placed in front of Cai Gongshi's spiritual tablet as a memorial.

"Brothers! Let's go! Kill the Japanese bastard!" Zhang Yun waved his hand.