Glorious Mission 1937

() After reading Ma Cao's report, Chen Feng fell silent. Lao Jiang paid a lot of money. Although he only sent two regiments to mix sand, these two regiments were not ordinary troops. The First Army of the National Revolutionary Army , This army is the direct line of Lao Jiang's direct line from inside to outside.

All the officers and soldiers of Whampoa were selected from various units below. The weapons and equipment are also the most advanced in the country. Such a unit, Lao Jiang, is usually trained as an air force. Once there is a trouble, he can always expansion.Just like after the outbreak of the Songhu Battle, the First Army was quickly expanded into the No.17 Corps with an order from Lao Jiang.

And those two colonels are not ordinary people. It is impossible for ordinary people to serve in such a unit, let alone climb to this position.You must know that if you want to climb faster in the Kuomintang army, you need qualifications and backgrounds. Chiang Kai-shek's employment standards have always been said to be "Huang, Lu, and Zhejiang".Especially for middle and senior military officers, there are special standards.First of all, it depends on whether the person is from the Whampoa Military Academy or the Army University.If not, it depends on how many years he has worked in the Jiang regime and how he performed.If he is from Zhejiang, his hometown, he can make an exception. If he is from Fenghua, that would be even better.

A person who can be a colonel in the First Army must be inseparable from these three standards, and he may even be a Zhejiang native who graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy.

Originally, according to the suggestion of Yang Yi and others, after the two regiments arrived in Datong, they found a plausible reason to split the two regiments, disrupted the organization and mixed with other troops of the 61st Army, and then divided the two regiments. The head of the regiment was transferred to the military department as a staff officer and completely swallowed the two regiments.

This idea is certainly good, but its feasibility is not very high. First of all, if Lao Jiang dares to transfer these two regiments to the 61st Army, he will not be afraid of Chen Feng disrupting the organization and reorganization. It succeeded, after all no matter how hard Chen Feng did it, he couldn't get rid of hundreds of officers from these two regiments, right?Secondly, disrupting the organization and reorganization will inevitably cause the officers and soldiers of the two regiments to be scattered among the various units of the 61st Army. With Chiang's method of dividing up and winning people's hearts, Chen Feng is really worried that the troops below will become chaotic.Coupled with the current speed of military expansion of the 61st Army, it may not take long for the officers who have been scattered to various units to become company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders.

So no matter which aspect is considered, these two groups cannot be split. Not only that, but also let them hold together. Only in this way can Lao Jiang's claws not be stretched too long.

Before these two regiments arrive, Chen Feng still has some things to arrange. Now the 61st Army has nearly 12 troops. Although more than half of them are recruits, this number is still terrifying. There are tens of thousands of troops, and with his suspicious character, something will happen, so some troops must be turned from light to dark.On the one hand, of course, it is to defend against Lao Jiang, and on the other hand, it is to defend against Japan himself. Chen Feng's creed of leading troops is to never let the enemy know your true strength.

Soon, Chen Feng issued an order, and the Xinghe Police Brigade immediately carried part of the ammunition and supplies to Daheishan for concealed training.The Jining Jingbei Brigade will be transferred to Sumu Mountain on the border of Chasui-Sui for concealed training, while the Taolin Jingbei Brigade will be transferred to Liangcheng Daihai area for training.In addition, the cavalry group will continue to operate freely in Saibei, closely monitor the actions of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia, and do not return to Datong for the time being.In addition, one infantry regiment was drawn from each of the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, and the [-]th Division of the Communist Party of China, and then dispersed to various counties and townships in the defense area to help the counties form county brigades, district squads, and militia groups.

In this way, the 61st Army's visible troops are only the three understaffed infantry divisions, the 101st, 222nd, and the Seventh Division of the Communist Party, and the two directly subordinate units, the Jingwei Regiment and the Air Defense Brigade. The total number of troops still exceeds 6, which is far more than that of a Type A army, but presumably this strength should be within the tolerance of Lao Jiang.

December 12th was an extremely difficult day for Chen Feng. Historically, it was this day that the Japanese army occupied the South Stable, and that tragic massacre also began.Even though the national government has published in newspapers all over the country and even the whole world in the past two days the Japanese army's conspiracy to carry out a massacre after occupying Nanjing, Chen Feng is not sure whether the Japanese will stop their brutality.

Until eleven o'clock in the evening, there was no news of Nanjing's fall, which made Chen Feng heave a sigh of relief.

What Chen Feng didn't know was that it was precisely because of his telegram that Lao Jiang temporarily changed his mind, and did not issue a retreat order to the defenders in the city like in history.

Without the order of Chiang Kai-shek, the defenders in the city would not have retreated hastily. You must know that the first retreat order in history was not issued by Chiang Kai-shek to Tang Shengzhi himself, but by Chiang Kai-shek through Gu Zhutong in Jiangbei to Tang Shengzhi. Gu Zhutong asked Tang Shengzhi to cross that night

Jiangbei went up and ordered the defenders to break out of the encirclement.But Tang Shengzhi himself had strongly advocated the defense, and if he suddenly withdraws first, he is afraid that he will not be able to bear the responsibility in the future, so he requires that he must first convey the supreme commander's intentions to the defending general before he can withdraw.That night, Chiang Kai-shek called Tang Shengzhi: "If the situation cannot last for a long time, you can retreat in time to organize and counterattack." Night began to retreat.Then at 14 o'clock in the morning on the 12th, the staff was convened to make plans and orders for fighting and retreating.

In other words, if Chiang Kai-shek hadn't ordered the defenders to retreat in the Nanjing Defense War, Tang Shengzhi and others would not have dared to retreat without authorization.More importantly, there is no doubt that the final outcome of the South Stable cannot be defended, but it is not easy for the Japanese army to occupy the South Stable.

历史上唐生智下令撤退时,南京并没有被ri军攻破,这是南京保卫战最大的悲剧之一。12月12riri军不但没有攻进城,甚至没有控制一半以上的城外地区。12ri凌晨的具体情况是中华门方向没有失守;光华门方向,ri军进攻,城外的87师261,260旅的阵地“屹立不动”。87师的中山门阵地也没有丢;水西门方向受到的压力较小,守军是51师306团。12ri下午ri军曾攻破中华门与水西门之间的城墙,但被306团敢死队消灭,12ri夜敌人也没有攻入。如果没有那道该死的命令,南京最少还可以坚守半个月左右。

Now because of the appearance of Chen Feng, because of the appearance of that telegram, Lao Jiang considered the lives of millions of people in the South Stable, worried that he would bear the historical responsibility of losing the massacre of the people in the South Stable, and finally did not issue an order to retreat, but Tang Shengzhi was strictly ordered to stick to the south stable, and without his direct order, even if he fought to the death, he would never retreat half a step.

In addition, the soldiers and civilians in the south stable also knew that the Japanese would commit a massacre after entering the city. The vast majority were massacred by the Japanese army after laying down their weapons. This is another tragedy of the Nanjing Defense War.

On December 12th, Nanjing survived.The overwhelming publicity of the Kuomintang government has caused an uproar in the world, especially in the telegrams sent by the Kuomintang government to the governments of other countries, pointing out that the news of the Nanjing Massacre was learned from Lian Zhaopan, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia. Yes, and there are telegrams to prove it.

At the same time, the Military Control Bureau has also collected many orders from senior officers of the Japanese Army to the troops in the past few days. For example, the telegram issued by the Commander of the Tenth Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, to Lieutenant General Hisao Tani, the commander of the Sixth Division, clearly mentioned that 'In principle, no prisoners will be kept'.Most importantly, a top-secret telegram was sent out by a senior spy lurking inside the Japanese Army at the cost of his life. This was signed by Hatohiko Asaka, the temporary commander of the Japanese Army on the Nanjing front, on December 1937, 12. A secret order marked "Confidential, destroy after reading": "Kill all captives!"

As for why this order was not destroyed by the senior commander of the Japanese army, and how it was brought out by the spies of the military command, it is no longer important. What is important is that the Japanese army and the entire Japanese government finally saw it in the next few days With the power of international public opinion, whether it is Japan's ally Germany, the United States as a trading partner, or Britain, France, Italy, and the Soviet Union, they all called Japan's government to severely condemn the Japanese army's violation of humanitarian principles.The United States, Britain and other countries, which were extremely dissatisfied with Japan's invasion of China, even threatened Japan. If Japan dared to carry out a massacre in Nanjing, and even affected the overseas Chinese of the United States, Britain and other countries, then the United States and Britain would not rule out the possibility of directly sending troops to China.

And the people in Japan also expressed their shock. Invading China is not a big deal in the eyes of Japanese people, but if the imperial army, which makes them proud, wantsonly slaughtered innocent Chinese civilians, this is not what they want to see , So for a while, the Japanese people criticized this behavior of dispatching troops in central China, so that the Japanese government had to implement a news approval system for its newspapers, and any news reports that wanted to appear in the newspapers had to go through the government For approval by the department, if there is no report that is not conducive to Zheng Fu's speech, it will be stamped and approved, and then it will appear on the newspaper page.Once there is a report criticizing the government or the army, it will be blotted out with black ink, indicating that the report is invalid.

Soon, Emperor Hirohito of Japan also found out about this matter. In desperation, he had no choice but to issue an order to the Japanese army on the front line in Nanjing through the chief of staff of the base camp, Prince Xianyuan Gong Zairen, asking them to consider the image and honor of the Great Japanese Empire. Do not do anything that would damage the honor of the empire in Nanjing. All combat troops must be stationed outside the city after capturing the South Stable. Combat troops are strictly prohibited from appearing in the South Stable without permission. Only a certain amount of military police can be left Maintain law and order in the city.