Invincible urban management

June 1935, 6, Nanjing, Zijin Mountain

Amidst the shouts like mountains and tsunami, the heroic Red Army soldiers surged across the enemy lines like a tide, one after another the blue sky and white sun flags that had been blackened by gunpowder smoke fell down one after another, while the bright red flags with sickle and hammer patterns on each side were drawn in various places. On the top of the mountain, it rises in the wind.

The Battle of Nanjing, which had just started less than 48 hours ago, has no suspense at all so far.

"...At present, the Zijin Mountain defense line of the Kuomintang army has completely collapsed. The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum and the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum have fallen without a fight. However, at the Zijin Mountain Observatory, there is still about a regiment of stubborn enemies who are persisting in resistance. Destroy without using heavy weapons...

In addition, there are still a small number of stragglers of the Kuomintang army scattered in the suburbs and countryside to resist.Comrade Su Yu is going to rest in Zijin Mountain for two to three days. After completely cleaning up these remnants of the enemy, he will launch a general attack on the urban area of ​​Nanjing... Prior to this, the cruiser Pinghai had already bombarded the Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing to cut off the remnants of the enemy in the city Escape the retreat of the Yangtze River to the north, and reduce the pressure for the next step of crossing the river..."

Set up in the headquarters of the Red Fifth Front Army in Pudong, Shanghai, Fang Zhimin briefed the travelers on the latest battle report, while moving several small red flags and small blue flags one by one on the sand table of the Nanjing battlefield that was recently printed out with a 3-printer .

On this sand table, the entire Jiangnan land is already a piece of red, and the area east of the canal in Jiangbei has also been planted with a red flag.

In addition, the banner of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is also advancing at an astonishing speed where this battlefield sand table does not show.

——When the calendar of this year turns to June.The "Shanghai siege network" planned by the imperialist powers has shown a tendency to collapse. [

Although extremely contemptuous of the "China inferior nation" of the Japanese Empire.So far, they still haven’t connected the nuclear catastrophe that occurred on their own land with the “secret weapon” claimed by the Shanghai Red Army, but the heavy blow it caused to the Japanese invaders has been gradually revealed on the battlefield—eight lifetimes later The unlucky "South China Dispatch Army" first suffered a blow on the Taihu battlefield, and then stepped into the meat grinder on Chongming Island. Three divisions were knocked out, and their blood was bled dry.Although it still maintains an army system.However, only less than half of the division's troops were left, and the technical equipment such as heavy artillery, tanks, and aircraft were completely lost, and even the medicines were consumed.

Faced with such a predicament, the Southern China Expeditionary Army, who refused to admit defeat, first tried to drag people into the water, using the unique "belly art" of the Japanese army, to ask the staff headquarters for "combat guidance"-that is, a cryptic term for help.It's a pity that the current Tokyo Imperial Army Staff Headquarters has been destroyed by nuclear explosions and fires, and the staff officers are either dead or injured.External communication was completely interrupted, and the Southern China Expeditionary Army even yelled and broke their throats, but no one responded.

In this ominous silence, the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, which was finally trapped on Chongming Island, ran out of food. The division commander, Lieutenant General Koiso Kuniaki, committed suicide after "burning" the military flag. The remaining Japanese troops launched a massacre. Suicidal charge, and immediately "broken jade into god" at full speed.

Another two days passed.It was not easy to restore contact, but for the plight of the Jiangnan battlefield, the military department has nothing to do right now-Tokyo at the eastern end of Japan and Kyushu Island at the western end have been reduced to purgatory, military production, material transportation, military service collection and other affairs have all become one. It was a mess, including high-ranking officials and dignitaries who held great power, such as Prime Minister Lu, the Chief of Staff, and the Deputy Chief of Staff.All of them were either dead or seriously injured, and the upper-level organization of the army had already been completely paralyzed.It is impossible to command all kinds of soldiers and horses at all, and it is no longer possible to coordinate and command wars in mainland China.

Even among the survivors of the General Staff Headquarters, there are still a few crazy people who want to grit their teeth and fight the war of aggression against China to the end, but standing in such a scorched earth is also a place for heroes to use their skills—adding troops to the battlefield in mainland China?Where are the soldiers?Where is the medicine?Where is the logistics?Where is the transport fleet?Even if these things can really be made up, why throw them across the sea instead of using them for disaster relief in Tokyo?

Therefore, after hearing the sad news that the "Chinese Communist Army" was advancing along the Yangtze River and waiting anxiously for a long time, the headquarters of the "South China Expeditionary Army" in Nanjing received such a heart-wrenching letter Half of the reply: "...Since the eruption of Mt. Fuji, the counties in the Kanto region have become purgatory, and the emperor has also been disturbed. Regarding the plight of the battlefield in the Yangtze River Basin, the military headquarters can do nothing for a while. Not only the reinforcements are raised, but also the medicine and supplies There is no way to maintain the supply, and the fleet is available for transportation. The soldiers in front should find their own way out and try their best to distribute food and fodder on the spot..."

For the same reason, the Ministry of the Navy unceremoniously rejected the request of the "South China Expeditionary Force" for the navy to provide fire assistance.

Therefore, the completely desperate "Southern China Dispatch Army" headquarters had no choice but to disregard Wang Jingwei's repeated pleadings. Nearly four months after the "Nanjing Blood Kaicheng", on June 1935, 6, it sadly ordered to abandon the Jiangnan stronghold. Nanjing, Wuhu and other places once again crossed the river to the north, retreated to Xuzhou and Lianyungang, and carried out a large-scale comprehensive strategic contraction.The unlucky Wang Jingwei, though seeing the situation was not good, was already on a bandit ship and could not get off, so he had to go all the way to the dark, leading a group of party members to follow the Japanese army out of Nanjing, and went to the northern Japanese-occupied area to form a "government in exile".

In this way, when Shanghai's Red Fifth Front Army ended the bloody battle on Chongming Island and began to launch a large-scale counterattack, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the enemy ahead had shown a tendency to collapse - the remaining Japanese troops had retreated, and the abandoned Nanjing Kuomintang army However, they fell into internal collapse: they all knew that if the allied forces of Britain, France, the United States and Japan fought together and could not defeat the red bandits at all, staying in Jiangnan would be waiting for death.

Therefore, some hardcore traitors in the Kuomintang reactionary army chose to follow the Japanese master to cross the river north.Another part of the diehards betrayed He Yingqin and Wang Jingwei again, went upstream along the Yangtze River, and went to Wuhan to join the old master Chiang Kai-shek who seemed more promising.There are also some officers and soldiers with patriotic sentiments in their hearts. On the one hand, they are awed by the majesty of the Red Army's smashing of the coalition forces of imperialist powers all over the world. On the other hand, they are fascinated by the hope of the rise of China.Therefore, under the infiltration and work of the underground party, they simply defected and raised the red flag.

all in all.When Su Yu led the Thirteenth Red Army and Hu Tiantao led the Eleventh Red Army, with a total of about [-] fresh troops, launched a counterattack on the western front from the front lines of Jiangyin and Yixing. The Kuomintang troops on the opposite side fled and surrendered. any effective resistance—from Xi, Changzhou, Danyang, Liyang, all the way to Lishui and Zhenjiang.The whole counterattack operation can only be described as the momentum along the way, and the pot of pulp along the way.

It was only when the Thirteenth Red Army marched towards the outskirts of Nanjing that it encountered fierce resistance from the Kuomintang diehards.However, with the backbone of the Nanjing defense force, at least half of the officers and men of the 87th and 88th Divisions of the Kuomintang Central Army turned their backs, and the crucial Yuhuatai line of defense collapsed instantly. It collapsed after 24 hours.

This moment.The capital, Nanjing, has been completely exposed to the Red Army like a beautiful woman who has taken off her clothes.

"...In my opinion, the current situation is that the speed of soldiers is the most important thing. Let Comrade Su Yu work hard and work harder, taking advantage of the chaos of the enemy army. Immediately launch an attack on the urban area of ​​Nanjing! The problem of the rear is completely Don't worry! Comrade Mao Zetan's [-]th Red Army has already caught up."

After Wang Qiu, Lin Shenhe and other representatives of the People's Liberation Army discussed for a while, they turned to Fang Zhimin and gave their suggestion, "...Although the Red Twelfth Army suffered heavy losses on Chongming Island, there are currently less than [-] battle-ready soldiers left. , but if it is just to wipe out the remaining enemies behind the front line, it should be enough! [

It is a pity that the political significance of conquering Nanjing this time.I'm afraid it's not as big as originally imagined-Wang Jingwei had fled to Beiping the day before yesterday, and announced that Beiping would be renamed Beijing, and the Beijing Nationalist Government would be established accordingly.Therefore, the confrontation between the two national governments and the puppet Manchukuo government and the Soviet government may continue for some time in China, and most diplomats from various countries will withdraw with the opposition.

Under such circumstances, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants could not wait until the withdrawal of Nanjing City was completed before attacking!Because we need to find some useful Western journalists to witness the next nuclear launch!If we only rely on the reports of Soviet journalists, I am afraid they will not be convincing enough..."

——In fact, what the traversers and the leaders of the Red Army did not expect was that the foreigners who did not choose to retreat at this time, but stayed in Nanjing and waited to contact them, were much more "big names" than imagined.

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Nanjing, Three Pailou Louzi Lane, German Legation

A black and red "Swastika flag" fluttered high on the flagpole in front of the embassy, ​​together with white soldiers standing on both sides of the gate, holding big wolf dogs and armed with guns, this building stood tall In the chaotic city of Nanjing, it seemed extraordinarily peaceful.

Chief Adviser of the German Military Mission in China, former Commander-in-Chief of the German Wehrmacht, General Hans von Seckert, known as the "Father of the Wehrmacht" of Germany, was standing in front of a door on the third floor of the embassy, ​​listening to the The sound of howling guns overlooked the chaotic traffic and crowds on the street.

At this moment, the city of Nanjing, abandoned by the Japanese and the pro-Japanese faction at the same time, is like an ant nest that has been flooded, as if everyone is busy rushing out.The streets are full of trucks full of luggage, transferring all kinds of furniture accumulated by the rich and powerful in the city to outside.And many citizens who were afraid of the Red Army also used sticks to carry their bundles and fled out of the city with the old and the young.

Scolding, shouting, crying, and other noisy sounds intertwined together, forming a certain doomsday atmosphere of despair.

The sharp-eyed Admiral Sektor even saw a truck parked outside the compound of a certain government department. There was a terrible chaos when loading luggage, because every servant wanted to get his master's luggage first. The luggage was so packed that they wrestled with each other.There were also reckless thieves who tried to take advantage of the chaos to rob, but were shot dead by the guards on the spot, and their brains and blood splashed onto the utility poles.

Of course, in the face of such a chaotic scene, there are also people who are using legal means to make a fortune—the rent for each carriage in the city has risen to ten silver dollars, and if the car has no connections, it will take more money Can't rent it either.In addition, rickshaws, handcarts, suitcases, rattan baskets, and even poles were sold at astonishingly high prices.Even the worst camphor wood box can sell for two silver dollars.

In addition, the broken troops who escaped from the various city defense fronts.It is also shocking to see: most of the soldiers have lost their military uniforms, wearing some tattered civilian clothes, carrying luggage rolls, and a rusty antique musket on their arms, which seems to be a product of the last century... God !Where did He Yingqin find these vulnerable troops and drive them to fortify the outskirts of the city to fight?

Just as these war refugees and the defeated soldiers in the suburbs were huddled together in the street, scrambling to escape, a Red Army plane with a sickle and hammer pattern on its wing suddenly flew over and whizzed past their heads .It didn't drop bombs or machine-gun pedestrians, though.But just the snowflake-like leaflets are enough to trigger a new round of terrible commotion among these people who have long been terrified.

Admiral Seekert raised the binoculars hanging on his chest and stared at the never-before-seen plane for a long time until it disappeared at the end of his field of vision.

"...Good afternoon, Your Excellency General. May I ask, what were you looking at just now?"

Tautman, the German ambassador to China, walked in suddenly.He greeted Admiral Sekt who was standing alone in front of him.

"... I am watching the destruction of a country, and bemoaning the end of my mission, Mr. Minister." Admiral Seekert replied succinctly.

——Since the first batch of German military advisers arrived in Nanjing in 1928, the German military delegation in China has been working hard to help the Chiang Kai-shek regime build a German-style, Asian version of a modern army, the so-called "German Armed Brigade" And "German Mechanic".At the same time, a set of the most basic defense industry was preliminarily established in the Yangtze River Basin of China, so that China's military strength could reach the "minimum standard" for resisting Japanese aggression.

Admiral Seeckert was the oldest, most prestigious, and most knowledgeable of the German advisers hired by Chiang Kai-shek, and he was also the most trusted and reused adviser by Chiang Kai-shek.Chiang Kai-shek not only granted Sektor the position of general counsel.In the name of "the chairman's client", he was allowed to conduct "conversations with various Chinese organs" on behalf of the chairman in the "chairman's mansion", and also stipulated that whenever Seekert held a meeting in the chairman's mansion, the staff headquarters , the Director General of Training, the Minister or Deputy Minister of the Military and Political Department, the directors of the various departments of the Military Commission, and the directors of the ordnance industry and military supplies should all attend the meeting.

also.Chiang Kai-shek also set up a "General Counsel's Office" in Nanjing, with Falkenhausen, General Seekert's right-hand man, as the "Chief of Staff of the General Counsel".In the name of the "chairman's agent", he issued orders to various departments, just like the overlord of the Nanjing National Government-every Tuesday and Friday at [-]:[-] a.m. is the time for the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the National Government and military academy officials to make an appointment to register for a meeting with Sickert. When it was too late, all the pampered officials were forced to line up in advance, which became a major sight in Nanjing at that time.

In return for Chairman Chiang's attention and courtesy, Seckert submitted a "Army Reform Proposal" to Chiang Kai-shek, in terms of army training, officer training, purchase of weapons and equipment, rectification of military institutions, and construction of special forces. The practices of several consultants are synthesized, supplemented and developed, and some methods are also proposed to improve the cooperative relationship between Chinese officials and German consultants.Chiang Kai-shek was full of praise after reading the proposal.

The three major ideas of army building he put forward for Chiang Kai-shek influenced Chiang's life.These three are: 1. The army is the foundation of ruling power; 2. The power of the army lies in its excellent quality; 3. The combat potential of the army lies in the training of the officer corps education-and Chiang Kai-shek has almost always done this.

Next, under Seekert’s proposal, the Kuomintang formulated an “accurate logistics supply schedule” based on the actual monthly needs of the army, and based on this, ordered the necessary arms and related equipment from German companies, and then strengthened the It promoted the trade between China and Germany, and facilitated the signing of the "Implementation of the Contract on the Trading of Chinese Raw Materials and Products to German Industrial Products" between China and Germany. Through this contract, on the one hand, the national government's needs for German arms and industrial equipment were met. On the other hand, it also solved the need for strategic raw materials such as tungsten sand for the Nazi Germany's military preparations.

In general, no matter from which point of view, they are much stronger than the German adviser sent by the Communist International to the Chinese Red Army, that is, Comrade Li De.However, with the sudden rise of the Red Army in Shanghai, the split and disintegration of the Nationalist Government, and He Yingqin's defection to the enemy, the "Blood Opening of Nanjing" by the Japanese Imperial Army... All these "Oriental Causes" that the German military delegation fought for were also It all came to an abrupt end.

——After Wang Jingwei came to power to form a cabinet, the first task was to dismiss the German military adviser in order to make room for the Japanese adviser...

As a result, the General Counsel's Office was disbanded, and Admiral Seekert led all the German advisers and officers to hide in the German Legation. While sending a telegram requesting the next step in the country, he was planning a way to return to China—it's a pity that Shanghai at this time It became a war zone, and the passenger routes along the Yangtze River to overseas were cut off by the war, and it was impossible to buy tickets to go to sea.The Jinpu Railway to the north was also cut off.There was still a liner to Wuhan to the west, but Admiral Seekert didn't know how to face Chiang Kai-shek there... So, this group of "unemployed Germans" stayed.

"...Your mission was over when the Imperial Japanese Army entered the city back in February, wasn't it, General."

As Taudman said so, he packed up several documents in the desk drawer and prepared to throw them into the stove for destruction—although Nazi Germany did not participate in the European and American coalition forces that interfered in the Chinese revolution and encircled the Chinese Bolsheviks, But it is also uncertain what attitude the Chinese Red Army will have towards these "bourgeois enemies"...especially after learning of the bad end of the consulates of the United States, Britain and France in Shanghai.

Just in case, on the one hand, the German legation is not planning to retreat immediately from the capital that is about to fall, and on the other hand, it is racing against time to destroy all kinds of secret documents. , to prevent possible leaks.

"...No, no, you got me wrong, Mr. Minister." Admiral Seekert waved his hand, "...Our direct mission to the East is to help Mr. Chiang Kai-shek build a modern army, And the supporting defense industry system. Fundamentally speaking, it is to enable China to resist the Japanese military invasion-now, although Mr. Chiang Kai-shek has been kicked out of the capital, but his mission of hiring me to China is also To thwart the Japanese Empire's attack, but to be accomplished quite perfectly by his enemies...is that ironic, you say?"

He curled his lips frivolously, "...Although the Japanese army still occupies a large area of ​​Chinese territory, I don't think that after losing its entire navy and even its capital Tokyo being covered in volcanic ash, the Japanese Empire still has the courage This war is going to be fought..." (To be continued...)