I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Second...Second Young Master..." Zhang Lingfu burst into tears instantly. Compared to others, he was extremely grateful to Jiang Weiguo, because it was Jiang Weiguo who rescued him from the prison and sent him to battle. A chance to kill the enemy and serve the country.

"I am Jiang Weiguo here!" Jiang Weiguo yelled and ran up to the position of the Zhongshan Gate defenders.

Although Jiang Weiguo doesn't like to be an "idol", he knows that he is already the "idol" of many Chinese soldiers, and the Chinese army needs an "idol" at this time. Since the heavens have given him a great responsibility, he naturally strives to undertake it.

Jiang Weiguo understood that after seeing him, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army would definitely be greatly boosted in morale and belief, so after he came to Nanjing, he immediately ran around the main positions, so that Nanjing, who had not seen him for a long time, When the officers and soldiers saw him again, they knew that he was still in Nanjing City, and was still fighting side by side with them.

"It's the Second Young Master! Brothers! It's the Second Young Master!"

"Ah! Second Young Master is still in Nanjing!"

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who saw Jiang Weiguo were all ecstatic, and then burst into cheers.

"Second Young Master! Second Young Master! Second Young Master!"

More and more officers and soldiers shouted "Second Young Master" together with tears in their eyes. Gradually, the originally chaotic and chaotic shouts converged into a huge, earth-shattering and powerful sound wave, which even covered the sound of artillery fire.

Echoing over the sky over Nanjing City and Zijin Mountain, it was the jubilant sound of "Second Young Master" like a tsunami and thunder.

It must be an exaggeration to say that the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army regard Jiang Weiguo as a god, but Jiang Weiguo is undoubtedly the soul of the Nanjing Army and the spiritual dependence and sustenance of all officers and soldiers.

Seeing Jiang Weiguo with his own eyes again, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who were fighting bloody battles were rarely able to suppress the extreme excitement in their hearts. Tens of thousands of Huben soldiers who could face the red with Japanese bayonets coincided with each other and shouted Jiang Weiguo's words hoarsely. Officially called "Second Young Master", tens of thousands of shouts mixed with extreme excitement, touch, ecstasy, and warmth are like the invincible roar of the Nanjing Army, a giant covered in scars. Countless officers and soldiers looked at Jiang Weiguo and choked up. shed tears.

"Second Young Master! Second Young Master! Second Young Master!"

Whether it is among the ruins of Nanjing city or in the scorched-earth fortifications of Zijin Mountain, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing army all over the city are shouting the title of Jiang Weiguo with enthusiasm, and the sound is like a group of guns, resounding through the sky, and the voice is full of fanaticism warm.

Jiang Weiguo himself was taken aback. He never thought that he would be so popular, so loved and even admired by the officers and soldiers.

While his heart was warming with tears in his eyes, Jiang Weiguo held up a banner of hunting and fluttering high.

This is the battle flag (military flag) of the Nanjing Army. The huge blue sky, white sun, and red ground are all over the ground, and the three words "Dragon Soul" are embroidered on the flag in thick and black.

All the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army have not forgotten that the official designation of this powerful army they belong to is "Nanjing Army", and also has a supreme honorary title: Dragon Soul Army.

"Fengtian kills the thief!" Jiang Weiguo stood on a high place regardless of the danger of his life, and shouted loudly.

Under the reflection of the flickering blood-red gunfire, in this scene, Jiang Weiguo looked like a god.

"Fengtian kills the thief!" The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army, whose morale was soaring to the boil, turned back to the Japanese army like a pride of angry lions.

Chapter 375 Iron and Blood Battle (10)

Surrounded by the Sun Flag, Nanjing, which has stood for nine months without falling, has finally ushered in its final moment.

"The number of casualties is meaningless!" General Hata Jun said to Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiyuki, head of the 8th Division, "Whether the imperial army killed 10 or 20 or 30 people on the Nanjing battlefield? No one will know the exact numbers except ourselves.

As long as we don't admit it to ourselves, the outside world will never know the truth.

Therefore, the cost is not important, but the result is important.

The outside world does not see our casualty figures, only the results.

Maeda-kun, you have to command the next battle with a heart of stone. Don't tell me how many people died, because the Tokyo base camp only needs Nanjing City.

Understand?Do whatever it takes to win!"

The Japanese army, which had been completely numb by the huge casualties, launched the final attack on Nanjing City with the mentality of smashing the cans.

Thinking from the perspective of high-level Japanese, Japan has a population of 1 million (about 7000 million in mainland Japan, about 3000 million in the Korean peninsula, 300 million in Taiwan, 10 in the Ryukyu area, etc.), so, The death of hundreds of thousands of millions of people is not a "big event". If the Sino-Japanese truce negotiates peace, the vacancies of hundreds of thousands of soldiers can be filled quickly. After all, there are as many as 1700 million young and middle-aged men in Japan. The number of men who have been recruited exceeds 1000 million, so the death of hundreds of thousands or millions of people is really not a "big deal". Japan can afford to die. Originally, it was not easy to die so many. It is necessary to consider the next battle against China. But right now, since the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Nanjing are the final battles, there is no need to consider the later battles, and they can fight with all their strength regardless of casualties.

As the six generals Hata Toshi said, even if the Japanese army killed 30 people to take Nanjing, who would know that the Japanese army killed 30 people except the Japanese themselves?The Japanese military can knock down the front teeth and swallow it, claiming that only [-] or even [-] people died. It is impossible for the outside world to accurately count. The outside world only sees that Nanjing was eventually taken by the Japanese. The purpose of the Japanese high-level.

(Note: In the original history, Japan’s native population was about 1937 million in 7060, and about 1945 million in 7200. Therefore, although the war was very tragic, many people died in Japan, but overall there was no The Japanese population has been drastically reduced, but the Japanese population is still growing. The number of newborns in Japan exceeds the total number of natural deaths and war deaths.

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The fleets of both sides are fighting in the air crazily, the artillery groups of both sides are firing at each other crazily, and the crowds of both sides are also fighting crazily.

The northern defense line of Nanjing City has been completely breached. Corpses are everywhere in the northern city, and blood flows into rivers. The brutal street fighting has caused soldiers from both sides to fall between the ruins. As the biggest support of Nanjing City, Zijin Mountain's main position is also in a crazy bloody storm. In the middle of the war, the flood-like Japanese army submerged the foot of Zijin Mountain in multiple directions, including the north, east, and southeast, and the Japanese soldiers who were killed and wounded piled up under Zijin Mountain; Then, with the Zhonghuamen as the main force, the 8th Division, which had just arrived at the Nanjing battlefield, was ordered to "concentrate the strength of the whole division and take down the Zhonghuamen".

The entire city of Nanjing was full of blood and blood.

"Kill!" Amidst the roar that shook the sky, the Nanjing Army, who vowed to defend Nanjing City to the death, launched a bloody battle with the Japanese Army with unprecedented bravery and tenacity.

The artillery of both sides launched an unprecedented fierce artillery battle. The sky above the black smoke billowing like clouds was like a rainbow and streamers like torches. The huge and intensive shelling shook the whole city.

In the raging flames, the soldiers of both sides rushed towards each other with red eyes. After the fireball rolled and exploded like a raging wave, the broken limbs and arms were scattered all over the battlefield. Like an avalanche of torrents, they collided with each other and started shooting face to face. The crowd fell down in unison, and then fought hand-to-hand amidst roars.

Known as the "No. [-] Urn City in the World", the Zhonghua Gate was covered in smoke and darkness, and the corpses of soldiers from both sides filled the trenches of the Nanjing Army, and each trench became a bloody slaughterhouse sewer.

There are more than 5000 Nanjing Army guarding the Zhonghua Gate. Using the caves and trenches on the city wall as firepower points, countless bullets blasted out a storm-like firepower net, killing the charging Japanese troops in pieces. The hornet's nest danced in the blood mist, and the Zijinshan heavy artillery group adjacent to the Zhonghua Gate was even more furious. The meteor-like shells blew up the Japanese troops attacking the Zhonghua Gate in batches.

The Japanese army made the utmost preparations for another attack on Nanjing City.

After repeated research, the Sixth General Hata Toshi believed that "the key to breaking the city lies in the power, quantity, and mobility of heavy artillery", and requested Japan to provide "no less than [-] large-caliber heavy howitzers equipped with powerful traction facilities."

In the past few months, Japan's local artillery factories have been developing, experimenting, and producing towed heavy artillery at full capacity. They have produced more than 200 pieces with a caliber of 240 mm, and each heavy artillery is equipped with a high-intensity horsepower gun. Tank tracked vehicles for towing and a spare tracked vehicle.

In this way, on the one hand, these heavy artillery can quickly move, assemble, disperse, and conceal, on the other hand, they are powerful, and the shells used are all "high-explosive armor-piercing shells" used to destroy concrete fortifications.

After the war started, these heavy artillery were scattered in a certain area, and launched shelling at the same target at the same time to achieve the effect of salvo bombardment. After two or three waves of bombardment, the Japanese artillery quickly drove the tank tracked vehicles to tow away the heavy artillery, thus preventing it from being attacked. The counterattack suppression of the Zijinshan Artillery Group of the Nanjing Army greatly reduced the losses of the Japanese Army's previous fixed artillery positions.

For example, when attacking Zhonghuamen, the Japanese army provided more than 8 "self-propelled heavy artillery" to provide artillery reinforcement for the 50th Division. These more than 8 "self-propelled heavy artillery" were not lined up as artillery positions, but were scattered at an average interval of hundreds of meters. In the rear and two wings of the [-]th Division, after firing two or three times, all the "self-propelled artillery" quickly shifted their positions, and then continued to fire at the Zhonghua Gate (the Zhonghua Gate is a fixed target, so the Japanese "self-propelled artillery" can still deploy accurately after changing positions. Strikes and artillery salvos), so as to avoid the attack of the Nanjing Army Zijinshan artillery group.

I have to admit that after the Japanese suffered enough from the artillery group on the top of the Nanjing Army, the batch of "self-propelled heavy artillery" produced by prescribing the right medicine played a great role in actual combat, allowing the siege Japanese army on the Nanjing battlefield to always have powerful artillery fire However, it is difficult for the artillery group of the Nanjing Army to attack and destroy it.

Even so, the Japanese army paid an extremely heavy price for their second siege.

Just attacking the Zhonghua Gate, the 8th Division, which was fully loaded and rushed to Nanjing to participate in the battle, was exhausted.

The defenders of Zhonghuamen suffered almost all casualties. Most of them were killed and injured by the Japanese "self-propelled heavy artillery". The defenders fought bloody battles, killing and wounding three times more Japanese troops than they were, and disabled the 8th Division in the first battle.

At the last moment, Zhu Chi, the commander-in-chief of the defenders, when several officers under his command urged him to retreat, laughed and said, "Withdraw? Where are we going? We have nowhere to retreat! Follow my orders! Contact the Zijin Mountain Pao Group , Cannon fire covers the Zhonghua Gate! Hurry up!"

After receiving the order to cover the Zhonghua Gate with artillery fire, Wang Yecheng burst into tears. He grabbed the phone and shouted: "Good brother! Go all the way!" It was completely wiped out, the defenders were killed collectively, and no one surrendered or escaped or retreated. At the same time, the 8th Division finally lost nearly 2000 people and completely lost its vitality.

This kind of combat mode is completely normal on the Nanjing battlefield. Since there is very little Nanjing city still under the control of the Nanjing Army, "even if it really retreats, there is no place to retreat." Not to retreat, and when the whole army is about to be annihilated, call the Zijinshan artillery group to cover their positions with indiscriminate artillery fire, so as to kill the Japanese army to the maximum extent.

"Report to the Garrison Command! Our regiment is about to fight to the last man! Please artillery units immediately cover our regiment's position with artillery fire! The national army will win! Long live the chairman! Long live the second son!"

"In order to win, please cover our positions with full artillery fire! The national army must win! The Nanjing army must win!"

"My unit is fighting with Japanese troops three times as large as ours! Please cover with artillery fire immediately! Quick! Cover with artillery fire!"

It seems that the Japanese army is not far away from the final victory in occupying Nanjing, but the more so, the more tenacious the Japanese army's resistance has become.

The Japanese army attacked crazily, and the Nanjing army resisted crazily. They were more ruthless, more ruthless, and regarded death as nothing than the Japanese army.

In order to kill the Japanese army, the Nanjing Army did everything possible.

On the night of the fourth day of the bloody battle, the 2th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 4nd Division of the Japanese Army passed Chaoyang Gate, broke into the southern part of Zijin Mountain, and killed the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.

Jiang Weiguo ordered Peng Mengji, head of the Purple Mountain Artillery Regiment: "Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum covered by artillery fire!"

Peng Mengji turned pale with shock: "That's the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum!"

"Anyway, Mr. Sun Yat-sen's coffin isn't there!" Jiang Weiguo said with a firm expression, "Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum can still be rebuilt, and those devils are dead, so they can't be resurrected! Without bombardment, wouldn't it be possible to let those oriental bastards defile Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum?" Don't worry! Mr. Zhongshan will not blame us in the spirit of heaven! Let's fire!"

Peng Mengji gritted his teeth, and ordered cruelly: "Fire! The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is covered by artillery fire!"

With the earth-shattering thunder and flames, the main body of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum was almost razed to the ground. Boaifang, Sacrifice Hall, Music Stage, Guanghua Pavilion, Sutra Library, Liuhui Pavilion, Zhongshan Academy... were all blown into rubble and ruins. The 4th Wing of the Japanese Army in Shanling was almost completely wiped out.

The Japanese army did not expect the Nanjing Army to be so "vicious" that they even bombed the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, but they were caught off guard by artillery fire.

Soul-stirring battles happened non-stop in every place and every time in Nanjing, especially the street battles between urban areas were the bloodiest.

The Japanese army had to pay a huge price for every meter advanced. Every house in the city was a firepower point, and every street was a trench. The Nanjing army and the Japanese army fought desperately in the ruins, houses, and streets. A piece of urban area is often captured by the Nanjing army at night, because the underground is full of spider web-like tunnels. The counterattack Nanjing army drilled into the interior or rear of the Japanese army through the tunnels. Guns, grenades, bayonets, steel helmets, stones, and bricks , fists, teeth, shovels...all turned into weapons for bloody battles.

As Maedanaka, the head of the 8th Division, lamented, "Nanjing is no longer a city, but a huge killing factory, a melting pot of human flesh!"

"Jianhao, you really should go!" In the garrison headquarters, Xiao Shanling and others repeatedly persuaded Jiang Weiguo.

At this time, the situation in Nanjing City has indeed reached a critical moment. The Japanese army has already occupied half of the urban area, and the main position of Zijin Mountain has also been attacked by the Japanese army. A rectangular area of ​​the wharf, the fall of the entire city is a matter of time, if Jiang Weiguo waits until then, he will be surrounded by the Japanese army on Zijin Mountain together with the last members of the Nanjing Army, completely without a way He can escape, but it is difficult to fly with wings. If he leaves now, there is still time. He will cross the city from Zijin Mountain, cross the Yangtze River, enter the Pukou District in Jiangbei, and then retreat to eastern Anhui or central Jiangsu, and finally retreat to Wuhan.

"Wait a little longer!" Although Jiang Weiguo wanted to leave instinctively, he knew that he had responsibilities on his shoulders and could not leave easily. The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army all took him as their spiritual support. If he stayed for one more day, he would be more encouraging to the officers and soldiers. one day.

At this time, on the outskirts of Nanjing, large forces of the national army are gradually gathering towards Nanjing. The main forces are Gu Zhutong's 5th Army and Zhang Fakui's 8th Army. According to Chiang Weiguo's original proposal, Chiang Kai-shek left more than 18 fresh troops in Wuhan. They were all transferred to southern Anhui and supplemented by Gu Zhutong and Zhang Fakui. However, the troops of Gu and Zhang were seriously restrained by the 5th Division of the Japanese Army that had already occupied Hangzhou. The 18th Army was responsible for confronting the 8th Division. , the 20th Army passed through central Zhejiang, detoured south of Anhui, and attacked Nanjing. The Army was fully loaded with [-] well-trained soldiers, but it would take some time to reach Nanjing.

On September 9st, which was the nine-month day of the Battle of Nanjing, Jiang Weiguo was finally ready to leave Nanjing, because if he didn't leave, he really couldn't leave. The Ming Palace Airport has also fallen and is still in Nanjing. The city in the hands of the army is about to be completely cut off by the Japanese army.

If Jiang Weiguo didn't leave, he could only hide on Zijin Mountain surrounded by Japanese troops.

Before leaving, Jiang Weiguo was naturally very emotional. The Nanjing Defense War, which lasted only 13 days in history, lasted nine months because of his intervention. This kind of achievement is far from what it could be compared with in previous history. .

Jiang Weiguo worried that if he left, it would affect the morale of the Nanjing Army, but he was too worried, because he had done enough, and no one would demand that he really share with Nanjing City like ordinary soldiers of the Nanjing Army. Survival.

"You all have to persist, but I have become a deserter!" When bidding farewell to Tang Shengzhi, Xiao Shanling, Huang Wei, Wang Yaowu, Chen Mingren and other generals, Jiang Weiguo was very ashamed, "I am so ashamed..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Huang Wei said with moist eyes, "Jian Hao, you have done a very good job!"

"Leave the rest to us!" The generals shook hands with Jiang Weiguo and said goodbye very emotionally.

"General Zhang (Zhang Fakui)'s Eighth Army will be here soon!" Jiang Weiguo tried to comfort everyone, "Please persevere, and you will be fine!" When he said this, he felt that he was slapping himself. The logic is ready-made, if it's okay to stay, why should I run?

"We will persist until the last moment!" Chen Mingren nodded.

The Nanjing Army is going to shrink its troops. When the urban area and Zijin Mountain cannot be taken into account, they will gradually abandon the urban area and concentrate their troops on Zijin Mountain to fight until the last moment.

After nightfall, Jiang Weiguo left Zijin Mountain with more than 100 entourages, crossed the urban area, arrived at Xiaguan Wharf by the river, and then crossed the Yangtze River on a torpedo boat and entered Pukou District in the north of the Yangtze River.

The defender of Pukou District was the 77st Brigade of the 771th Division. This brigade was actually very "leisure" because the Japanese army did not really attack Pukou District, but this brigade could not abandon Pukou District either.

The brigade commander Du Yuming received Jiang Weiguo warmly, and then sent Jiang Weiguo off with great emotion.

There were more than 500 people who left with Jiang Weiguo. The number should not be too many, too many would be too easy to attract attention. Sun Tianfang commanded the armed personnel to protect Jiang Weiguo and retreat to Chuzhou in southeastern Anhui.

After leaving Pukou District, everyone entered the Laoshan Mountains near Pukou District and left quietly.

Standing on a hill, Jiang Weiguo looked sadly at the city of Nanjing on the other side of the river. The whole city was full of thunder and red lights.

"Oh!" Jiang Weiguo sighed, "Nanjing, Nanjing..."

"Second son, don't be emotional!" Sun Tianfang urged, "Let's go! According to intelligence, there is only a brigade of the Devil's Third Division nearby, and they must rush out from the gap in the devil's defense line before dawn, otherwise a large number of devils may be attracted. of!"

"Let's go! Let's go!" Jiang Weiguo nodded.