I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Second Young Master!" Peng Mengji came over and pulled Jiang Weiguo aside.

"Peng Tuanzuo, you called me Second Young Master again!" Jiang Weiguo was a little unhappy.

Peng Mengji is a student of the fifth phase of Whampoa, and he has studied artillery warfare all year round, so he has profound knowledge in artillery warfare. His background as a student of the emperor and his loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek made him very popular and reused by Chiang Kai-shek. Otherwise, he would not have become the head of one of the only two heavy artillery regiments in the national army.

Jiang Weiguo has been with Peng Mengji for such a period of time, and he feels that this person is good at everything, but he is "a little narrow-minded".

Peng Mengji smiled, then lowered his voice and said: "Second... Battalion Commander Jiang, we don't have many shells! Save it!"

"Not much?" Jiang Weiguo felt very strange, "How much is left?"

"About fifteen hundred rounds!" Peng Mengji replied, referring to the shells of the large-caliber artillery.

"Damn it!" Jiang Weiguo was speechless, "We brought a total of [-] rounds of shells, and only half of them were destroyed, so there are not many more?"

Peng Mengji seemed to feel helpless at Jiang Weiguo's "unresponsiveness". He looked around and lowered his voice further: "Battalion Commander Jiang, the 38th Division is not a unit of the Central Army. Why should we spend so much money on them? I The meaning is, symbolically, it is enough to fire a few rounds, and leave the rest to them.

The harder we beat the devils, the less the 29th Army will lose.

After all, isn't it a good thing that the more local troops die?The principal's troops are about to enter Hebei Province, and the harder the 29th Army fights and its vitality is greatly injured, won't the central government be able to control Hebei Province more? "

Jiang Weiguo stared at Peng Mengji, and after looking around, he said in a low voice: "Peng Tuanzuo, I didn't hear what you said just now, so I just pretend you didn't say it.

But, next time you say this kind of thing, don't talk about anything else, the position of this regiment leader will definitely not be your turn!"

Peng Mengji's heart was terrified, and he nodded hastily: "Yes, yes, I know!"

The 10th Artillery Regiment and the Artillery Battalion of the 918th Regiment began to line up the artillery formations on the outskirts of Haiguang Temple, and the large-caliber heavy artillery raised their heads again amidst the roar of machinery.

"Second Young Master!" Zhang Zizhong suddenly walked over with a serious look.

"Mr. Zhang, what's your order?" Jiang Weiguo stepped forward.

Zhang Zizhong's tone was as dignified as his expression: "The Japanese army also has an artillery unit, a full artillery unit, and it has been greatly strengthened, and its strength should not be underestimated.

After you fire, the fire will reveal the position of your artillery group, and then you will be fired back and suppressed by the Japanese artillery, and I am afraid that you will lose a lot of artillery!"

Jiang Weiguo nodded: "We know, so each of our cannons is towed by armored vehicles or heavy vehicles.

After firing, move immediately to avoid the Japanese artillery fire!"

Zhang Zizhong looked at Jiang Weiguo with eyes like steel: "I have a plan.

Before you fired, I asked the troops to launch an intensive storm first, luring the Japanese artillery group to fire first, and let the Japanese artillery group expose their positions, and then you all suppressed the attack with all your strength! "

"Zhang...Mr. Zhang?" Jiang Weiguo was shocked.

Both sides of the war in the dark have many cannons. If you do not fire, you will not be exposed and will not be attacked by enemy artillery. This is a very simple truth: you have cannons, and I also have cannons. Within the range of the artillery fire (although the ranges of different types of artillery are different, but in the current situation of Haiguang Temple, the difference in the range of the artillery of the two sides is negligible), you fire first, and I can determine your position through the light of the fire. Then blow up your artillery emplacements, and vice versa.

On the one hand, if you want to bombard the opponent, on the other hand, you don't want to be bombarded by the opponent. The only way is to let the cannon play "guerrilla warfare", but it must be difficult.

The method proposed by Zhang Zizhong can be said to be very effective: the 38th Division launched an attack first, and the soldiers swarmed up, forcing the Japanese artillery group to fire, so that Jiang Weiguo's artillery group took the opportunity to kill the Japanese artillery group in one fell swoop.

Of course, the price is also very obvious. The 38th Division does not know how many soldiers will use their flesh and blood as bait to lure the Japanese artillery group to expose its position.

"Don't talk too much!" Zhang Zizhong said solemnly, "I am not a hard-hearted person, and I will not treat the lives of soldiers under my command as ants, but this is the quickest way.

First, you don’t need to take risks with your artillery group. We have accumulated a lot of time and made it late. Our country and our army have too few large-caliber artillery. Each of them is very precious and needs to be cherished and used, so I am very reluctant to use your artillery. The group will suffer heavy losses; secondly, doing so can eliminate the Japanese artillery group once and for all, and will not allow the Japanese artillery group to have a chance to resist; thirdly, doing so can also solve the war quickly!"

"Mr. Zhang..." Jiang Weiguo's heart trembled, and his eyes were moist.

Jiang Weiguo now understands why Zhang Zizhong and Chinese soldiers like him would say "death" during the War of Resistance. The national power is not as good as people, the military is not as good as people, the industry is not as good as people, the economy is not as good as people, technology is not as good as people... everything is not as good as people , I don’t want to be a subjugated slave, so I can only say the word "death" and fight to the death with the heart of death. This is the helplessness and tragedy of the unyielding soldiers of the weak country!This is the backbone of the Chinese nation!This kind of "Chinese soul" is beyond the comprehension of some second- and third-rate peoples who obtained their so-called "independence" by begging for the mercy of the conquerors and following the conquerors' buttocks.

Zhang Zizhong smiled very sadly: "If you want to be worthy of us and save us from dying, you should not let the Japanese artillery group launch a second wave of bombardment.

Well, that's it! "After speaking, he turned around and left in big strides.

Looking at Zhang Zizhong's leaving back, Jiang Weiguo let out a long sigh, and he turned his head to look at Peng Mengji, the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Peng Mengji's face was full of shame and determination: "Second son, don't worry! I will never let the Japanese artillery fire a second wave of shells!"

Jiang Weiguo patted Peng Mengji's shoulder heavily: "Come on!"

The artillery unit of the Japanese North China Garrison Brigade is indeed stronger in scale and strength than a normal Japanese artillery unit. The unit has a total of 48 75mm mountain guns, 16 75mm field guns and 12 The 120mm howitzer is indeed very powerful. Although some artillery are scattered in other Japanese garrisons, the Japanese army in the Haiguangsi area still has artillery strength and artillery firepower that form an overwhelming advantage over the 38th Division.

The reason why the 38th Division has been unable to attack the Japanese army for a long time is the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army. When dozens of cannons of the Japanese army launched salvos, the 38th Division could neither use artillery groups to counterattack and suppress, nor did it have planes and tanks to go. Destroyed, can only be bombed.

Several attacks were like this: the 38th Division slammed into the front of the Japanese positions in a mighty manner, and the Japanese artillery group fired an overwhelming volley. The officers and soldiers are not copper-headed and iron-armed, so of course they cannot move forward.

When the 38th Division, the 918th Regiment, and the 10th Artillery Regiment were ready, it was already [-] o'clock in the morning, and the sky was dim.

In order to win in one fell swoop, under Zhang Zizhong's order, all the troops of the 38th Division were deployed on the Haiguang Temple battlefield and dispatched.

Amidst the earth-shattering shouts of anger and killing, more than 38 officers and soldiers of the [-]th Division and more than [-] members of the Tianjin Security Corps gathered into three frenzied waves, which poured towards Haiguang Temple in the northwest, east, and south directions like a flood.

Just 5 minutes later, rows of soaring flames and thunderbolts exploded in the area occupied by the Japanese army in Haiguang Temple, and the meteor shower-like shells bombarded the 38th Division and the Tianjin Security Corps precisely and fiercely with the force of wind and thunder. The bombs fell into flames, the blood clouded, and the attacking troops were smashed to pieces in the shell explosion in groups.

"One company, the enemy's coordinates are 'horizontal 078, vertical 124'!"

"Erlian, enemy coordinates 'horizontal 162, vertical 098'!"

"Third company, enemy coordinates 'horizontal 253, vertical 205'!"... On the position of the 10th Artillery Regiment, artillery observers hoarsely reported the position of the Japanese artillery positions to their respective artillery groups.

At each gun position, the artillerymen sweated profusely and raced against time to control the rangefinder, collimator, and direction indicator, and adjust the elevation and horizontal angles of the muzzle, and the shells had already been loaded.

In less than a minute, the artillery battalions of the 1th Artillery Regiment and the 10th Regiment roared at the Japanese artillery positions and fired thunderbolt flames of revenge.

The Japanese artillery position, which exposed its position because of the bombardment of the 38th Division and the Tianjin Security Corps, was suddenly shrouded in lightning and thunder. The commander of the regiment, Suzuki, led Dazuo, who was blown to ashes in the first wave of artillery bombardment by the national army. At the same time, fully half of the Japanese artillery was blasted into pieces of iron slag, and the Japanese artillery surrounded by the artillery was blown to nothing.

After receiving the first wave of artillery shells, on the Japanese artillery positions, flames were raging and thick smoke billowed. Cannons that had been blown into twists and turns were scattered all over the place. Crying and howling on the ground, most of the injured had their ears deafened or their brain tissue damaged or their internal organs damaged.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third waves of artillery shells of the national army continued to break through the air, blowing up the Japanese artillery positions, and the sky and the ground collapsed, and cannon parts and artillery parts flew all over the sky together.

Seeing our own artillery shells falling on the Japanese artillery positions like a thunderstorm, the officers and soldiers of the 38th Division and the Tianjin Security Corps suddenly cheered and their morale was greatly boosted.

"Good fight!" The officers and soldiers were so excited that tears filled their eyes.

Chapter 133 Fighting Again (3)

The bombardment of the 10th Artillery Regiment and the Artillery Battalion of the 918th Regiment was accurate and ruthless, basically destroying the Japanese artillery force in one fell swoop, but this is not entirely due to the artillery of the two regiments. and the self-sacrifice of the Tianjin Security Corps.

"Attack with all! There is no enemy but no one!" Zhang Zizhong, who was at the forefront, shouted angrily.

The officers and soldiers of the 38th Division and the Tianjin Security Corps broke through the Japanese army's extended defense line of Haiguang Temple, stepping on scorched earth, pools of blood, stumped limbs and broken arms.

In the incomplete Japanese fortifications, trenches, and fortresses, officers and soldiers of the two armies fought desperately.

Jiang Weiguo originally planned to take the officers and soldiers of the 918th Regiment into battle, but Du Yuming stopped him: "Jianhao, forget it!"

Jiang Weiguo, who found these words very familiar, couldn't help looking at Du Yuming with reproachful eyes.

Of course Du Yuming understood Jiang Weiguo's eyes. He said in a low voice: "After the 918th Regiment is wiped out, who else can you command here? Good steel is used on the blade, and the next step is infantry melee. The 38th Division and the Tianjin Security Corps have already That's enough, it's not our turn to fight!"

Jiang Weiguo thought for a while, and felt that what Du Yuming said made sense, so he nodded silently.

Ten minutes later, the first official tank battle in the Sino-Japanese War broke out in the field near Tianjin Railway Station, northeast of Haiguang Temple.

In the headquarters of the Japanese Garrison Army in North China, Lieutenant General Tashiro Kanichiro, the commander, was shocked when he learned that his artillery force was destroyed by the artillery unit newly added to the battle by the Chinese army, so he hastily dispatched the tank team directly under the Garrison Army Headquarters to attack the artillery of the Chinese army. position.

The battle at Haiguang Temple was a typical land offensive and defensive battle. Both sides had no aircraft, so the artillery was the most powerful heavy fire force on the battlefield at this time. It used to be that the Japanese army "bullyed" the Chinese army by relying on their artillery groups, but now , the Chinese army not only has artillery groups, but also bombarded the Japanese artillery units into the sky, and the next battle will inevitably be reversed. It is the Chinese army that "bullyed" the Japanese army by relying on its artillery groups, so for the Japanese army , the only way is to destroy the artillery group of the Chinese army, so that the two sides can return to a situation of equal firepower.

The Japanese army has no artillery groups, so the Chinese army can only have no artillery groups.

From this moment on, Lieutenant General Tashiro really felt anxious.

Lieutenant General Tashiro was the commander of the Japanese Army Garrison in North China. He was the No. [-] figure in the Japanese Army in North China.

However, when the Battle of Wanping City broke out, Lieutenant General Tashiro and Major General Kawabe were kept in the dark, because Major General Hebian was inspecting Qinhuangdao, and Lieutenant General Tashiro was in Tianjin, neither of them was in Beiping. The "Wanping City Incident" was caused by Major General Hashimoto Gun, Chief of Staff of the Garrison Army, Lieutenant Toru Morita, Chief of Staff of the Garrison Brigade, and Colonel Renya Mutaguchi, Captain of the First Wing. The radicals first deliberately concealed the incident, trying to make the matter uncooked and cooked. After the First Wing arrived at Wanping City, Major General Hashimoto sent a report to Lieutenant General Tashiro, and this report Avoiding the important and ambiguous, roughly meaning that "the imperial army and the Chinese army have clashed in the area of ​​Wanping City, and Mutaguchi is negotiating with the commander of the Chinese army in Wanping City to resolve it."

After seeing this unserious and urgent telegram, Lieutenant General Tashiro did not take it seriously, thinking that the "Wanping Castle Incident" was just a very common incident. Dozens of incidents, large and small, were all "peacefully resolved" in the end. Song Zheyuan is not surprised by this, and Lieutenant General Tashiro is also familiar with this, so Lieutenant General Tashiro did not regard the "Wanping Castle Incident" as a major event at all. I know that more than 29 Japanese troops and 918 Chinese troops are sharpening their knives at each other in Wanping City. At any time, their guns will go off and a big war will start. Jiang Weiguo, the substantive commander-in-chief of the Chinese army in Wanping City, is "China's number one diehard anti-Japanese element." Therefore, after Wanping City killed a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, Mutaguchi Renya and others were caught off guard and unprepared on the one hand, and on the other hand they were busy directing the war and had no time to do other things. At the same time, Mutaguchi Renya and others " "Being a thief with a guilty conscience" did not dare to report the "catastrophic disaster" he had caused to his superiors, so even when the [-]st Regiment had already been killed by the [-]th Regiment, Lieutenant General Tashiro was still kept in the dark. It wasn't until the first regiment was completely wiped out that Morita Toru sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Tashiro before he died, and then Lieutenant General Tashiro realized that the "Wanping City Incident" was an out-and-out accident. The undeductible "Battle of Wanping City".

It took a full half an hour to recover from the unprecedented shock. On the one hand, Lieutenant General Tashiro reported to the headquarters in Tokyo, and on the other hand, he hurriedly ordered the Garrison Headquarters and various units of the Japanese Army in Tianjin to enter a state of emergency, and rushed to repair the fortifications and prepare for battle. Just three hours later, the 38th Division of Zhang Zizhong's Department in Tianjin launched a full-scale assault on the headquarters of the Garrison Army and various units of the Japanese Army in Tianjin. Captured by the 38th Division.

After graduating from the Japanese Army University more than 20 years ago, Lieutenant General Tashiro has successively served as a lecturer and head of the Chinese Section of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, a deputy military attache of the embassy in China, the Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army's Shanghai Dispatch during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and the Kwantung Army Gendarmerie He served as the commander of the North China Garrison in May last year. He has been in charge of all aspects of China's activities for a long time. He is a typical "China hand". He is well aware of the situation in North China and the strength of the 29th Army. He knows, Although the 29th Army has a population of 29, its weapons and equipment are backward, and it is not a direct line of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government. It is just a lone army entrenched in Pingjin and Hebei Provinces. It is more than enough to eliminate the 29th Army by itself, but it is more than enough to stand firm and wait for reinforcements. After all, there are five divisions and [-] troops of the Guandong Army in Shanhaiguan that can reinforce the garrison troops at any time.

Lieutenant General Tashiro believed that as long as his troops survived for 24 hours, they would receive air reinforcements from Kwantung Army aircraft; after 48 hours, they could receive ground reinforcements from Kwantung Army troops; Sea reinforcements of the Imperial Navy.

Thousands of well-trained elite soldiers, sufficient ammunition, powerful firepower, solid fortifications... and the "invincible Yamato soul", these advantages add up, Lieutenant General Tashiro is very confident that his troops will be able to fight against ten enemies When the reinforcements arrived, however, his heart was still shrouded in a shadow, because reports from the Battle of Wanping City and the Battle of Limingzhuang showed that there was an "elite Chinese army with a large number of tanks and heavy artillery" on the Pingjin battlefield. .

In this regard, Lieutenant General Tashiro could only pray for dawn and wait for the Kwantung Army planes to arrive for reinforcements. The air strikes destroyed the elite Chinese army with a large number of tanks and heavy artillery.

Lieutenant General Tashiro had calculated thousands of times, but he seriously underestimated the brutality of Jiang Weiguo, the "number one diehard anti-Japanese element in China", and his determination to kill the Japanese.

After the artillery groups of the 10th Artillery Regiment and the Artillery Battalion of the 918th Regiment destroyed the Japanese Artillery Wing in one fell swoop, they were completely chasing after and killing grass and roots. Distressedly used to cultivate Haiguang Temple, a pure Buddhist land that has been turned into a wolf's lair by the Japanese (in fact, Jiang Weiguo was very distressed when he saw his own guns firing again and again. After all, all the guns were shot out in bundles Bundles of banknotes, but he knew that at this time he had to spend a lot of money, and he couldn’t wait until the main force of the Japanese army arrived), the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties and suffered unspeakably. They couldn't even shovel, and some Japanese soldiers were so bombarded that they couldn't even pick it off.

Lieutenant General Tashiro had no choice but to dispatch a convoy to destroy the positions of the artillery groups of the Chinese army, and the artillery groups of the Chinese army could not be allowed to "massacre the soldiers of the imperial army with impunity."

Objectively speaking, the reason why Jiang Weiguo was able to play so smoothly is that his strong firepower is his greatest advantage.

At this time, the Chinese army is very weak in terms of heavy firepower. Among other things, let’s take the 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions of the Central Army’s elite German mechanizers and the highest level of mechanization in the German army. How many guns does each of these three divisions have? Twelve 12mm mountain guns, four anti-aircraft guns and twenty or thirty mortars, that's all.

This is the artillery equipment of the strongest army division of the Chinese army.

As for the non-elite units of the Central Army, it would be good for each division to have a few infantry artillery and a dozen mortars, let alone the local army.

But Jiang Weiguo's troops had dozens of heavy howitzers and hundreds of mortars, and their firepower was extremely powerful, so it would be strange if they didn't win the battle.

Following Lieutenant General Tashiro's order, the first official tank battle in the Sino-Japanese War broke out.

参战一方是中国陆军第918装甲团第一、第二装甲营的部分部队，累计150辆各型坦克，包括20多辆德制三号坦克、40多辆德制二号坦克、50多辆德制一号坦克以及20多辆其它型号的坦克；另一方是日本陆军华北驻屯军战车队，累计100多辆各型坦克，包括30多辆94式坦克、30多辆89式坦克、20多辆92式骑兵装甲车以及十多辆其它型号的坦克。

From a purely quantitative point of view, China has the upper hand, but from a quality point of view, the situation is completely different. Although the German tanks during World War II were famous in history, they refer to the later No. [-] and No. [-] (Panther tanks) ), No. [-] (Tiger), the current No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] are not much better than the Japanese iron tanks that have always been famous for being super useless.

The weapons of No. 20 are two machine guns, the weapons of No. 37 are a 50mm machine gun and a machine gun, and the weapons of No. 94 are a 92 mm tank gun and two machine guns (Jiang Weiguo’s luxurious limited edition No. 89 tank is a 57mm tank gun), as a comparison, the weapon of the Japanese Type [-] tank is a machine gun, the weapon of the Type [-] cavalry armored vehicle is a heavy machine gun and a light machine gun, and the weapon of the Type [-] tank is two machine guns and A [-]mm tank gun.

Therefore, on the Haiguangsi battlefield right now, the Japanese Type 89 tanks are the most powerful.

More than 30 Type 89 tanks and more than 30 57mm tank guns are enough to severely damage or even destroy the Chinese tank troops.