I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

During the pouring rain, the cavalry groups on both sides rushed towards each other like arrows flying off the string. The roar of horseshoes and the shouts of the cavalry shook the sky and broke the clouds together. Thousands of troops galloped on the ground with loose mud and sewage. , Thousands of horses are galloping, setting off a violent wave of splashing water and murderous aura.

The ground rumbled and trembled like a giant drum being struck hard, and the muddy water trampled by countless horseshoes was like a gushing black mist, rolling over the cavalry groups on both sides who were charging with all their strength.

The cavalry at the front of the cavalry groups on both sides held up their carbine guns, light machine guns, and submachine guns, and started shooting fiercely. In the lightning-like firepower net of migratory locusts, people screamed and blood splashed everywhere. The front of the cavalry groups on both sides The cavalrymen were shot one after another, turned over and fell off their horses, and then were trampled into flesh by the cavalry of their own who roared up.

This firepower confrontation lasted only a dozen seconds, because the horses running at high speed quickly brought the two sides into close combat. In the bloody storm that broke through the rain, the Chinese and Japanese cavalry groups roaring like thunder and torrents launched a head-to-head bloody fight. The roar of guns, the heart-piercing roar and killing, the grief-stricken curses and howls, the horrific screams and moans, the corpses and heads scattered all over the place, the murderous people screaming... The bloody battles and the hand-to-hand battles that were almost darkened by the sun and the moon, countless bright sabers danced up and down dazzlingly, and clanging metal trills and glaring sparks burst out from the impact of the blades.

Amidst the soul-stirring strange screams and soul-stirring roars, the cavalrymen who had been slashed and blood gushed like a fountain kept falling down, and the slashed horses ran wildly in pain. The severed heads rolled all over the place, the severed arms and limbs and the half-cut corpses piled up like a mountain, and the cavalry from both sides collided with each other at high speed, and the horses collided with the opponent's horses, smashing their bones and screaming. Under the action of inertia, the cavalry was thrown high into the air. In the blink of an eye, all the cavalry on both sides killed the men and horses. , riding on horseback has become a headless cavalry, a fountain of blood several meters high sprayed from Qi's brand new neck cavity.

The cavalrymen who fell from their horses were either trampled to death by countless horseshoes before they could scream, or they continued to fight desperately with their swords.

Bloody fireballs bloomed one after another on the corpse-like battlefield. It was the cavalrymen on both sides who were wounded and fell off their horses and determined to die.

On the muddy field in the rainstorm, human corpses and horse corpses were scattered all over the field, and the blood of people and horses flowed into rivers.

The melee like a meat grinder lasted for 15 minutes. The 106th Cavalry Regiment of the Japanese Army was almost wiped out. The army flag fled, and the cavalry of the Ma family army also suffered heavy losses. More than 450 cavalry were killed or injured.

This cavalry duel completely left one person out of his wits, and that person was Lieutenant General Matsuura.

After the division headquarters was attacked, Lieutenant General Matsuura immediately retreated. When the mother bag came with the cavalry regiment, Lieutenant General Matsuura was overjoyed and prepared to retreat with the cavalry regiment. The cavalry started a chaotic melee, which forced him to change his mind. Since the situation of the enemy outside the town was unknown, he did not dare to leave easily, so he had to retreat into the town.

At this time, since Zhang Yun's infantry unit had already arrived outside Tangwang Town, the Japanese army guarding the division headquarters had to divide their troops to resist, causing the commandos of the 17th Division to rush into the division headquarters of the 106th Division. , blood spattered three feet, the commandos who came in killed everyone they saw and threw grenades crazily. They didn’t plan to go back alive, so it was meaningless to capture prisoners. Suddenly, I saw two major generals and a senior commander among the dead. They were the chief of staff of the 106th Division, Akiyama Senior General, and Major General Yamaji Tsune and Kotobuki who were called by Lieutenant General Matsuura to the division headquarters for "combat analysis and review". Major general Mu Jingyi and the two major generals died with regret, because they had the same thoughts before they died: "If the head of the division didn't tell us to go to the division headquarters, how could we..."

Matsuura himself, under the protection of five or six guards, huddled in a corner of the division headquarters in panic. The Japanese lieutenant general was ashamed, and he was obviously mentally destroyed by the fear and despair of the doomsday. .

The commandos who surrounded Matsuura and others shot and killed the guards around Matsuura one by one, leaving only Matsuura standing in the pile of dead and blood.

"Surrender and don't kill!" Lu Xinrong ordered sharply in Japanese. He wanted to capture Matsuura alive. After all, a living Japanese lieutenant general prisoner is definitely more valuable than a dead one.

Matsuura looked at Lu Xinrong and the others in horror, then howled suddenly, took out his pistol and pulled the trigger on his temple. The reason why he "would rather die than surrender" was because Jiang Weiguo killed Lieutenant General Nakajima Komono alive. I don't want to suffer a thousand knives even if I die.

"Crack!" The Nanfang Type [-] pistol in the hand of Lieutenant General Matsuura made a weird metallic sound, and no bullets were fired from the muzzle, because the Nanfang Type [-] pistol is a very poorly shot pistol, and it must be strictly maintained to ensure its safety. Normal use.

Lieutenant General Matsuura naturally seldom used his gun, so he seldom maintained it. Therefore, his equipped gun had a major failure at this critical moment. In fact, it was a common problem with Nanfang Type [-] pistols. Weak and broken, the unlucky Japanese lieutenant general failed to achieve his last wish to commit suicide.

Lieutenant General Matsuura took back the pistol tremblingly, and when he saw it clearly, he wanted to cry without tears.

After being stunned for a moment, Lu Xinrong, Hou Fangzhou and other teammates burst out laughing and rushed forward to overturn Lieutenant General Matsuura to the ground.

"Second devil! Are you dead?" Zhang Yun shouted anxiously outside the division headquarters, "We are here! We are not late, are we?"

"It's really late!" Lu Xinrong laughed loudly, "Otherwise, I will give you half of my contribution to capturing Matsuura alive! Thank God you came late!"

"A wolf-hearted guy!" Zhang Yun rushed in with a team of officers and soldiers. After seeing Lieutenant General Matsuura who was tied up like a pig by the commandos, he couldn't help laughing, "Good job! Good job Yes! The action is perfect! I have a very good news to tell you! Old Wu!"

Wu Junyi, deputy head of the 171st Regiment, beamed and said: "Just now, General Shang Zhen's 20th Army, with the assistance of General Jiang Dingwen's 4th Army, has broken through the defense line of the Japanese 15th Division in Southwest Shandong and captured Heze! Brothers, we actually..." His eyes were moist, "Our hard days are about to pass, and the 20th Army will help us contain a large number of Japanese troops!"

"Great!" "We can win!" "We will definitely win!" All the officers and soldiers at the scene cheered.

Chapter 373 Iron and Blood Battle (8)

The rainy night counterattack launched by the Jinan defenders on the night of the third day of the Jinan Defense War played a positive and significant role in the Jinan Defense War and even the entire Xuzhou Battle.

In this night of thunder and lightning, heavy rain, and bloody night, more than 3000 people were killed and injured in the Jinan defenders, making the total number of casualties of the Jinan defenders exceed 8000, of which more than 3000 died (Because of the fierce fighting, difficulty in timely rescue, lack of medical conditions, etc., the death rate of Jinan defenders is very high.) In three days and three nights, more than 6000 people were killed and wounded in battle. It is very amazing, so the Jinan Defense War "is a victory piled up with human lives", "The entire Shandong Province was dimmed because of Han Fuju's fleeing without a fight during the Anti-Japanese War, but the Jinan Defense War turned out to be a light The dazzling torch of the Anti-Japanese War in Shandong Province seems to have condensed the anti-Japanese blood, anti-Japanese desire, and anti-Japanese spirit of Qilu soldiers and civilians." In the War of Resistance, finally, they poured the blood they accumulated in their chests but did not know where to sprinkle it in the Jinan Defense War." "Just a Jinan defense war is enough to make Shandong people proud of it. People from Shanxi, Jiangsu, and Shandong are not inferior." After paying such a heavy and tragic high price, the Jinan defenders achieved major results. In this night alone, more than 106 Japanese troops were killed and wounded, making the 5000th The total number of casualties of the division exceeded 1, and more than [-] died (the number of casualties of the Japanese army on this night partly overlapped with the previous number of casualties, because the Jinan-Qingdao Railway was paralyzed, and the wounded soldiers of the Japanese army could not be transported away. Some of them were placed in towns and villages near Jinan City, but they were murdered by the red-eyed Jinan defenders. Many Japanese wounded hospitals were captured by the Jinan defenders, and all the wounded soldiers were slaughtered.)

Half of the soldiers were casualties. This alone is enough to make the 106th Division unable to continue to attack Jinan, but the most serious thing about the 106th Division is not this, but the "brain" of the division. It was completely removed, the division head was captured, the division chief of staff and the two brigade heads were all killed, and the whole division was completely plunged into a chaotic state where the group of "dragons" had no leader.

Lieutenant General Matsuura decided to personally command four infantry regiments, one cavalry regiment, and one artillery regiment of the division because he was annoyed by the "ineffective command" of the two brigade commanders. After the chief of staff and the heads of the two brigades were killed, the entire division completely lost command, and the troops fought separately in units of wings.

After destroying the division headquarters of the 106th Division, Zhang Yun urgently contacted Zhao Shoushan, suggesting that the entire army take advantage of the loss of unified command of the Japanese army, concentrate its forces, and violently attack one of the Japanese troops. As a result, Zhang Yun and other officers learned that Zhao Shoushan had died in battle.

Zhao Shoushan took the lead in the counterattack and was seriously injured by Japanese artillery shells. The guards desperately carried him back to Jinan City, but before the military doctor had time to operate, Zhao Shoushan had already bled to death. Only by killing himself and becoming benevolent can the No.17 division have an explanation to the elders of Jinan!" Zhao Shoushan has always felt painful and guilty about the disaster of the war and countless people in Jinan.

In this night battle, a total of three senior generals of the Jinan garrison were killed. In addition to Zhao Shoushan and Ma Bingzhong, Dou Laigeng, commander of the 17th Brigade of Security of the National Army Shandong Province, also participated in the battle.

Dou Laigeng is not only the brigade commander of the national army, but also a martial arts master. He was once the deputy curator of the Shandong Provincial Martial Arts Museum (the curator is Han Fuju himself). In this rainy night melee, Dou Laigeng held two spears and carried two With a submachine gun and two shell guns in his waist, he shot and killed 38 Japanese soldiers with spears in melee, close combat, and hand-to-hand combat, including a lieutenant commander. He himself suffered four gunshot wounds and seven knives He was wounded, and finally fell to the ground exhausted. Before he died, he laughed loudly: "I have killed 38 Japanese pirates, and I have no regrets in dying! I am worthy of the country!" Because Dou Laigeng had killed many enemies, the Japanese army hated him to the bone and killed him after his death. The officers and soldiers of the 17th Brigade fought desperately to snatch the body of the brigade commander, but only Dou Laigeng's head and an arm were snatched back.

Despite paying a heavy price, the Jinan garrison successfully achieved its intended goal: to disable the 106th Division.

At dawn, after the rain, a V65 "Kesai" reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Air Force flew over Jinan for reconnaissance. The pilot on the plane was stunned when he saw the scene on the ground: countless dead people, densely packed, layer upon layer They fell to the ground, intertwined with each other, and scattered everywhere. Most of them were Jinan militia and migrant workers without military uniforms. These irregular soldiers who were ordinary people in Jinan City a few days ago did not have military uniforms. They still wore ordinary people's clothes, but on the sleeves They all wore a cloth strip that read "Defend Great Jinan". At this time, they had already fought to the death heroically in defense of the country, their hometown, and their families. A Japanese soldier was pierced with a spear, but he was also stabbed through the body by another Japanese soldier with a bayonet. Some of them fell to the ground with their spears in their hands, their skin was bruised and their blood gushed like a fountain, and they seemed to want to crawl forward, while others leaned on their spears. , remained standing precariously, but gutted.

"The legendary mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood is nothing more than that.

There are really too many dead people, it makes one's scalp tingle, the ground is full of stagnant water after the rain, the stagnant water has long been stained red by blood, the mountains and plains are pink, and the pink puddles are filled with The corpse, viewed from mid-air, looked like a large pot of red polenta.

Everything is quiet, there is no sound of fighting, no gunfire, no explosions, only the sun quietly shining on this land full of dead people and blood, presenting a strange tranquility!" The pilot described him , his name is Sun Tonggang, and he is the younger brother of Sun Tongxuan, the main backbone general of the Lu Army. He wept while narrating afterwards, "I am not sad, I am proud. I am proud of the bravery of my compatriots in my hometown in Shandong!"

Two hours later, Sun Tonggang flew a plane over the battlefield of Jinan again, and dropped a wreath from the air. On the wreath, it was written "in honor of the Jinan compatriots who died in the battle."

The crippled 106th Division is no longer able to complete the task of capturing Jinan assigned by the general in the temple, and the division no longer has the ability to attack Jinan.

After figuring out what was going on and communicating with each other, several regiment leaders of the 106th Division hurriedly gathered their troops, retreated dozens of kilometers to defend on the spot, and then desperately sent a telegram to the general in the temple for help.

Regarding the remnants of the 106th Division, although the Jinan defenders wanted to continue to pursue them, they were exhausted after all, so they were powerless. The two sides started a confrontation and were busy resting at the same time.

The crying in Jinan City was loud, every family wore mourning, and the whole city was plain.

It is needless to say how shocked the general in the temple was after receiving the report. He was shocked and anxious: "Matsuura is incompetent! His death alone is not a pity, but it has ruined the great cause of the empire!" The general in the temple did not know Lieutenant General Matsuura was captured because after the Jinan defenders withdrew from Tangwang Town, the Japanese army searched the town and found Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro, Chief of Staff of the Division, Yoshitaka Akiyama, Chief of Staff of the Division, and Yamaji, Chief of the 111th Brigade. Major General Heng and Major General Shou Mu Jingyi, the head of the 136th Brigade, "there is no one alive, no dead body". It is judged that the four died in battle or committed suicide. The bodies were taken away by the Jinan defenders. Already killed in battle, in fact, Lieutenant General Matsuura did not die, he was transported away by the Jinan garrison as a "special high-level trophy". .

Lieutenant General Matsuura is like the iron nail in the British ballad. He "falls" and naturally leads to a series of bad consequences.

The general in the temple immediately dispatched a transport plane, carrying Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai, Major General Toyojiro Inamura, Major General Juro Goto, and Major General Kenji Matsumoto to the Jinan battlefield as the new head of the 106th Division, chief of staff, and two major general brigades. Long, thus created the anecdote of "parachuting four chief officers of a certain division at one time".

Lieutenant General Nakai smiled wryly at this: "I never thought that I would take over as the head of the 106th Division in this way!"

Nakai, who became the second commander of the 106th Division, found that what he took over was a mess that could be called a mess. It was absolutely impossible to "reinvigorate the momentum and resume the attack on Jinan" as requested by the general in the temple. , because the 106th Division not only suffered heavy losses and low morale, but also had a serious logistics shortage, and ammunition and supplies could not be transported from Qingdao through the Jinan-Qingdao Railway.

"Unfortunately, the 106th Division cannot resume its attack on Jinan until it receives enough ammunition and supplies!" Nakai Nakai reported to General Siuchi. ' is not the same thing.

Previously, Matsuura-kun's 106th Division was fully equipped but could not win Jinan, let alone the current 106th Division?I still need at least fifteen more infantry brigades to strengthen my forces before I can take Jinan City with certainty!"

After reading Lieutenant General Nakai's telegram, the general in the temple almost lost his mind: "It's over! It's over!"

Lieutenant General Matsuura was captured and the 106th Division was destroyed. As a result, the 106th Division was like a chariot with its axle snapped off, completely losing the ability to move forward. , It also caused the 106th Division, which the general in the temple was preparing to use for the "final finale" on the Xuzhou battlefield, to become severely disabled; The battle situation in Xuzhou inevitably began to turn to the Chinese army, especially the powerful attack of the 106th Army of the Shang Zhen Department and the 20th Army of the Jiang Dingwen Department on the southwestern part of Shandong. It greatly promoted the development of the battle situation on the Xuzhou battlefield.

The reason why the Shang Zhen Department and the Jiang Ding Wen Department were so aggressive was that Chiang Kai-shek sent people to take a large amount of ammunition and infantry heavy weapons from the Wuhan armory to the two troops by train, which greatly strengthened their strength. The attack power of a two-man unit.

In addition to military considerations, the reason why Chiang Kai-shek spent his money on the front line of Xuzhou again was because he was deeply moved.

Whether it was the fierceness of the Xuzhou front or the tragedy of the Jinan battlefield, the supreme leader Chiang Kai-shek was indeed deeply moved.

Chiang Kai-shek is a politician who was born in the army. He is basically a politician in military uniform now. Playing power is what he is best at and mainly doing at present. As a politician, he must be ruthless and even shameless. Politics The family is cruel, and the soldiers are passionate. Naturally, Chiang Kai-shek, who has transformed from a soldier to a politician, is no longer the "hot-blooded person" who rushed to the Qing government's government with a pack of explosives when he was young. However, Chiang Kai-shek's blood vessels Although the "soldier's blood" in the film has been diluted for many years, there is still some. At this time, that little "blood" was aroused by the desperate struggle of the frontline national army officers and soldiers.

In order to reinvigorate Chiang Kai-shek's confidence, Jiang Weiguo repeatedly said to him, "We must trust the soldiers of the national army on the front line", and sent someone to send photos of the most tragic Jinan front line to Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek was really moved and inspired when he saw the remains of the Jinan defenders who died in battle all over the mountains and plains outside the city.

"Our soldiers are not greedy for life, and our people are not afraid of death, so why can't we beat the Japanese?" Jiang Weiguo said to Chiang Kai-shek very emotionally and sincerely.

"You are right, you are right!" Chiang Kai-shek was very emotional.

"This old man! There are so many private goods hidden!" After seeing the list of ordnance materials ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to be transported to the front line of Xuzhou, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help but cursed in his heart, "The troops fought so badly on the front line, he Still holding so many ordnance in your hands like a miser and reluctant to take it out! It’s a reckless disregard for human life! It’s like fighting the landlord, you have been hiding four [-] bombs at home and you are reluctant to use them. When you lose, you hide them in the The bomb at home has a meaning!" He slandered Chiang Kai-shek endlessly.

The victory of the Jinan Defense War was achieved by the Jinan army and civilians with a large number of lives, which immediately produced many positive effects, and impressing Chiang Kai-shek was one of them.

Deeply moved, Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind, transferred a large part of the last ordnance and materials in his hands to the Xuzhou battlefield, and sent strict supervision orders to Shang Zhen and Jiang Dingwen, especially to Jiang Dingwen. The telegram can be said to be murderous.

Jiang Dingwen was the Deputy Commander and Acting Commander of the Sixth War Zone at this time. Chiang Kai-shek said two sentences in the telegram, roughly meaning, one sentence was "Good fight, the word "Agent" in your official hat can be removed. ", and the other sentence is "If you don't play well, you are ready to follow in Liu Zhi's footsteps."

Jiang Dingwen, who was quite frightened, put all his strength into the next battle, which objectively played a big role in promoting the battle in Southwest Shandong.

The slump of the Japanese army stimulated the morale and fighting spirit of the national army once again. Especially after the victory of the Jinan defense battle came, all the national troops on the Xuzhou battlefield were inspired by it. Just maiming a division of the Japanese army, what does this prove?This proves that the Japanese are by no means invincible, and the Chinese army can defeat the Japanese army!Even if the number is the same, or even smaller than the Japanese army, they can still defeat the Japanese!This belief deeply inspired the 17 to 70 officers and soldiers of the national army on the Xuzhou battlefield, and then they fought like wolves and tigers unstoppably to the Japanese army in front of them (even in the original history, when the national army beat the dog in the water, it was the same. very brave).

On August 8, Zhang Zhizhong's 22th Army passed through Xuyi County and Jinhu County in the east of Anhui Province, entered Central Jiangsu to participate in the battle, rushed to the rear of the Japanese 9th Division, and cooperated with Li Pinxian's 9th Army in the north of the 9th Division. However, Zhang Zhizhong and Li Pinxian did not aim to destroy or severely damage the 11th Division, but to restrain and contain the 9th Division, forcing it to be unable to pose a threat to southern Xuzhou.

After the arrival of the Ninth Army, Li Yutang and Song Xilian led their troops through the northeast of the Ninth Division, passing through Lianshui County, Guannan County, and Guanyun County, and stormed the flank of the Japanese army in Lianyungang, pinning down the Japanese 9th Division in the east of Xuzhou. , the 9nd Division, to ease the pressure on the eastern battlefield of Xuzhou; on the same day, the 7th Army of Liu Jianxu's Department also fully arrived at the Xuzhou battlefield, and immediately invested in the interception of the Japanese 102th and 10th Divisions to ease the pressure on the western battlefield of Xuzhou .

On the whole, the situation of the Xuzhou battle is very good for the Chinese side.

At this point in the battle, there is no longer any suspense in the overall situation of the battle. It is like the collapse of a mountain. It was very slow at the beginning, but the further it went, the more out of control it became.

"How many battle-ready soldiers do you still have?"

"Including the lightly wounded, there are less than [-], and ammunition, food, and medicine are already in short supply!"

"How long can you hold on?"

"Without strong reinforcements, our department can still last for seven days!"

The above are the telegrams sent by General Temple and Lieutenant General Isoya on the night of August 8. The lines in the telegram are full of gloomy despair.

"Hold on! Isoya-kun!" The general in the temple finally sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Isoya, "Reinforcements are coming soon!"

The reinforcements that General Terauchi mentioned were the two new divisions he got from the Tokyo base camp after the 106th division was disabled.

Forming the 102nd, 105th, and 106th divisions and going to the Xuzhou front to participate in the war has exceeded the bottom line of Japan's national and financial resources at this time. The Japanese rely on the secret assistance of the Soviet authorities.

After the outbreak of the Jinan Defense War, the Soviet authorities were also very surprised. They did not expect that "China's military power and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army were higher than expected", so they made a second loan to Japan, thus "prolonging the Sino-Japanese war, which would not only prolong the Sino-Japanese war, Don't let China win, and don't let Japan win."

After receiving a new batch of large sums of money, the already red-eyed Tokyo headquarters decided to "don't lose and never stop", desperately fought to the end, and mobilized two divisions to join the battle again, but because the time was too urgent, the Japanese army was too late To form a new division, only two of the existing "idle divisions" can be drawn to participate in the battle.

The Japanese army now has five main divisions "doing nothing", namely the 5st and Guards Divisions stationed in Japan, the 1th Division stationed on the Korean Peninsula, and the 19th and 4th Divisions stationed in Northeast China.

Fearing that the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China would fall into turmoil due to unfavorable front-line warfare, the 1st Division was divided into two, one brigade was transferred to Northeast China to replace the 8th Division, and the other brigade was transferred to the Korean Peninsula Replacing the 19th Division, as for the 8th and 19th Divisions, they are preparing to go to the Xuzhou battlefield to participate in the battle.

How to use the upcoming 8th and 19th divisions?If all are invested in Jinan, it will definitely be no problem to win Jinan, but what about Xuzhou?What about the 10th Division?If they all invest in Xuzhou, what about Jinan?If one goes to Jinan and the other goes to Xuzhou, wouldn't it be a mistake to divide the troops?In this regard, the general in the temple was very indecisive.

"Whether you invest in Jinan or Xuzhou, it's just a matter of stopping the boiling water!" A lieutenant general who came from another battlefield to meet with the general in the temple said, "What we need is to draw a salary from the bottom of the pot!"

The general in the temple looked at Shi Yuan who was standing in front of him and smiled: "Mr. Shi Yuan, what's your opinion?"

Ishihara Wan'er looked serious: "Your Excellency, please forgive me, the imperial army has already been undefeated and defeated in this Xuzhou battle.

Even if the 10th Division is rescued, so what?Rescue the 10th Division, can Xuzhou be captured?Can Jinan be recovered?It can be said that the imperial army is taking care of one thing and losing another.

No matter how you look at it, all three goals cannot be achieved. If the imperial army achieves two or even one, it will be completely exhausted and unable to fight any more. The Chinese will be the winners.