The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

( ) Or is he pretending not to notice?Maybe there is this possibility.With Lao Jiang's self-willedness, he is still very confident in the Whampoa Clan that he created and has always controlled.For more than ten years, military officers who graduated from Whampoa have filled all levels of the million-dollar Chinese army. In terms of purity, they are very impressive.

However, purity does not mean combat effectiveness!Huangpu's training methods and teaching level are considered backward in the military academies of major countries in the world, and the technical and tactical aspects are completely behind the situation. If it is not for Zhu Bin's intervention, I am afraid that these people will not even be able to handle conventional combat. .

Of course, there are still some relatively high-level generals, but compared to the overall number, they are almost as scarce as prehistoric giant pandas.The sad thing is that most of these people are still in the hostile camp. I am afraid that Lao Jiang will be very hard to think about it.

In any case, the Japanese army's offensive against eastern Zhejiang and Fujian was stalemate like before, and progressed extremely smoothly and quickly. It seemed that it would take about a month or two to completely settle down.

In order to ensure the success rate, the Navy also specially allocated some destroyers to patrol the offshore area to provide artillery support at any time to prevent the Japanese army from jumping over the wall in a hurry and attacking important coastal cities and military sites.The firepower of a single destroyer is enough to blind a large group of Japanese troops without heavy weapons, which is nothing more than a piece of cake for the heavily armed navy. . .

The negotiation proposed by Japan is still in the middle of wrangling, it's not that they are as arrogant and asking for sky-high prices as before, but this time, in turn, it's because China's opening is too big!

Some of them are unacceptable to Japan in any case. The first is that Japan must deeply reflect on its aggression against China this time and in the past decades, and its spiritual leader, Emperor Hirohito, must personally apologize for this!This alone is impossible to pass.Besides, the aggression against North Korea, Lushun, and Shandong during the Qing Dynasty was also included.According to international practice, that is a historical issue, and the Republic of China is the new ruling government.Seems like they shouldn't be confused.

Gu Weijun, one of the full-time negotiators, unceremoniously proposed that unless all countries agreed to abolish all unequal treaties since the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all international disputes related to it must be borne by the government of the Republic of China and must be borne accordingly. indivisible.

This piece of nonsense can't be settled for a few days.Set aside for now.The second thing that Japan cannot accept at all is that the Kwantung Army completely withdraw from the Northeast, stop supporting the so-called du li of the puppet Manchukuo, hand over a group of criminals who split the country headed by Pu Yi, and give China's vassal state North Korea military and political independence.

Ri himself quit.The existence of Manchukuo is directly related to the future and future of their Japanese empire, and now there is a danger of the empire land sinking and being bombed into ruins. If 7000 million Japanese want to survive, they must ensure that Manchuria is in their hands.Now that the world is in chaos, they can't let go of the good opportunity to completely annex the Northeast!

The third article is tasteless in comparison. Japan unconditionally returns the territory and dependent countries that have belonged to China since ancient times.Including Taiwan Island, Sakhalin Island, and the Ryukyu Islands that have been actually occupied.

Such three clauses completely put Japan on the chopping block of the defeated country. Such a tough attitude and such overbearing clauses simply uttered all the grievances accumulated over the years since the Sino-Japanese War.As the negotiator, Gu Weijun felt a sense of elation!

The condition gap between each other is too great, it is impossible to talk about it!So the preparations to attack Taiwan not only did not stop.It is still in full swing, making it even more powerful!

In the current Republic of China, all the literate people do not care about national affairs, especially the older ones who have come all the way from the end of the Qing Dynasty, and they are even more encouraged by the fact that the country has such power in a short period of time!It is the first time to truly avenge the former enemy and take back the territory by force.It is equivalent to China's first challenge to the world!

Needless to say, various organizations and groups called for support. Lao Jiang himself shouted loudly, determined to use this battle to thoroughly highlight the strength of his central army and his own prestige, but when it really came to the stage of action, he It is very wise to hand over the difficult task of capturing the beachhead landing point.Who takes over.Of course there is no need to guess.

As soon as the mobilization order to attack Taiwan came out, the third war zone immediately began to move. Li Zongren, the commander of the war zone, was even more obliged to sit in Guangzhou and preside over all official affairs. As the deputy chief of staff, Bai Chongxi, of course, would not let go of the golden opportunity to display his ingenuity. Come and help for a while.

As the deputy, Gu Zhutong didn't take much care of things.But this time it was related to the face of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Chairman Jiang specially called him and repeatedly told him that he must do everything to perfection and not allow other people to be better than others. So he put aside all his official duties and participated in it. For a while, The whole Guangzhou will be full of stars, and the storm will rise!

Guangzhou in November is still so hot that people can't wear thick clothes. It is completely two extremes with the ice and snow that is fighting fiercely in the north.The participating troops selected from the third war zone gathered from all over the place, preparing to board the ships of the South China Sea Fleet from here and set off to Taiwan!

Inside and outside the city of Guangzhou, it became a large barracks surrounded by 10,000+ troops, and the Pearl River waterway was full of Chinese warships.

Although Britain, France and other countries expressed various dissatisfaction, especially the British who occupied Hong Kong, they were particularly worried that China would suddenly take it back there. hinder.

Without talking to Chiang Kai-shek, he dispatched a bunch of warships here to scare people. Unfortunately, the South China Sea Fleet completely ignored their complaints. Zhu Bin even said that if Britain dared to interfere in China's actions again, he might sell it to Germany. A batch of advanced weapons and equipment.

The British guy was impatient!Through the Sino-Japanese war, they have already seen clearly that some of the technological equipment in Zhu Bin's hands has unconventional destructive power. Germany is already so powerful that they can't breathe. bad dish!

So apart from verbal intimidation, he didn't dare to do anything more outrageous, so he had to let the fleet stare at him.express their existence.

Li Zongren and others completely let go of their hanging hearts.

This day, the third war zone held a joint island-seizing and landing combat exercise in the Shantou waters to build momentum for the battle. All the officers were present, and Li Zongren watched from a distance with a telescope.When the artillery of the South China Sea Fleet smashed countless drills on the beachhead like a storm of bullets, a flash of light and a huge explosion shook the beachhead as wide as ten kilometers, and there were a large number of temporary buildings there. The fortifications were submerged in the boiling sea of ​​smoke and fire.

Li Zongren couldn't help but secretly startled.Putting down the binoculars, rubbing his eyes that were hurt by the flashing light, he sighed and asked Bai Chongxi, "Jiansheng, if it's live ammunition, and the defenders are ours, how sure are you that you can withstand such powerful artillery fire?"

Bai Chongxi's expression was also unnatural.His fists were clenched white, he pondered for a moment, and shook his head helplessly: "Not at all! After all, manpower is limited, especially for an army that has never fought. Facing such a huge ship and cannon, I'm afraid it will be timid before fighting." !"

"Well, I think so too. Speaking of which, I would like to thank Zhu Hanchen, if his navy hadn't kept the Japanese army out. I'm afraid we will face such a fierce blow first! At that time, hundreds of thousands of soldiers will also I don’t know how many survived!”

Li Zongren sighed deeply. Japan's aggressive ambitions towards China are well known to the world, but it has always been a suitable opportunity.And its most threatening navy is the second most powerful in the world, and the scale of those killed before and after is also the largest in the world, if Zhu Bin didn't beat them up several times.How hard it is for the shore guards to attack them in groups!

Especially the 406mm ship artillery bombarded it.One shot of live ammunition can dig a hole the size of a basketball court on the beach, covering a range equivalent to a small village. Even reinforced concrete fortifications below five meters cannot withstand its penetration.If it is a high-explosive grenade, within the explosion range, even the tanks have to surrender their guns!

Fighting under such artillery fire is nothing but filling it with human life.There is no other way.The damage is so severe that I am afraid it will be indescribable.

Bai Chongxi was thinking about something else, his gloomy eyes swept over the marines of Wang Paishan's third group army who were rushing up the beach in a landing craft from behind the gunfire, and the ambition that had been floating in his heart for many years was unwilling to dormant again.He knew in his heart that facing such an enemy.Their Guangxi family has no chance at all.

"It's really one of Zhu Hanchen's partial teachers! With just a scholar who became a monk in Wang Weishan District, he managed to manage such a powerful force from a Hainan Island in four or five years. I really don't know the power that Zhu Bin has personally mastered. , and how powerful it will be!"

If Li Zongren said he was not jealous, that would be a lie. Who wouldn't want to have a victorious army?Fighting for hegemony and sitting on the seat admired and worshiped by hundreds of millions of people?If he were Zhu Bin, he would have driven Lao Jiang out of power at this time, crushed all the unconvinced forces, and unified the country, how majestic would that be?

Now I can only think about it, and it is almost impossible to realize.The world is in chaos today, and it is a good time for the country to raise its soldiers to use their lives. If you engage in those military internal strife, you will be reviled by the history books. It is better to make some political capital quickly. When the war is over in the future, use political struggle It is more appropriate to try to realize your own ideals by using the means.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but relax, and his face became brighter for a moment.

Bai Chongxi was his hard-core partner, and he could understand what he was thinking at a glance. He nodded and said: "With such a strong support, we don't have to worry about too many casualties in the beach fight. Besides, with Zhu Hanchen's style, he will definitely not sit back and watch his brothers suffer. The damage is too heavy. Once the war starts, it will definitely be devastating. I just don’t know if Jiang’s plan will succeed.”

The entire battle plan was discussed through the base camp. Wang Weishan's marines were in charge of opening the gap. Li Zongren's main force first rushed to consolidate and occupy the current major cities and strategic locations. Afterwards, the central yang army led by Gu Zhutong The Ministry took advantage of the situation and went ashore to launch a full-scale attack on the island.

In this way, the benefits of the three aspects are all taken care of, and obviously, in terms of the number of troops, the central yang army will have the upper hand, and a full ten divisions will be dispatched!

Li Zongren sighed: "Mr. Jiang is getting more and more shameless! He can do anything for the sake of attacking, which is really chilling! However, if he thinks that Taiwan is isolated and helpless, it will be easy to fight, then he will be too contemptuous of Japan himself. For more than forty years The business! Heh heh, don’t miss out on the meat, get yourself into trouble first!”

Bai Chongxi smiled, this is also his opinion. Ri himself is not stupid, he must know that he cannot withstand the powerful sea and air forces, and the chances of trying to stop it with the beachhead are slim.Then Taiwan's narrow and long mountains with complex terrain will become the rear of their continuous resistance. The central yang army to do this is definitely not as professional as the Yungui soldiers who spend all day drilling in the mountains, hungry and hungry.I'm going to break my teeth!

His thinking speed was really fast, he just thought about it happily, and immediately turned to another place: "Brother Delin, you said, Zhu Hanchen would so happily agree to seize Taiwan and give the benefits to Jiang. But only a few important What is the plan for the port of the ocean-going fleet?"

Li Zongren stopped him from asking.yeah, why?Zhu Bin is a character who refuses to suffer, and he must ask for more in return for any effort.Taiwan is such a big territory, if it is occupied as an enclave, the navy will watch over it, and the others will have no temper at all.But it was a bit strange that it would be released to Lao Jiang.

"Perhaps...his ambition is not here? After all, he mainly focuses on sea power, and he probably has no interest in governing a place that has been colonized by the Japanese for nearly half a century! I heard that he is a person who is afraid of trouble. Those 600 million islanders I have been ruled by the Japanese for too long, and the enslavement is serious. I am afraid it will not be easy to correct. If the trouble is not good, I have to kill some people. This kind of thing has a bad reputation!"

Bai Chongxi asked and answered by himself, as if he had found the answer.If it was him who came to clean up a new place, he probably would have to do the same.Taiwan is ruled by the "imperial people" of Japan, and schools teach Japanese courses.The official language is Japanese, and kimonos are worn on formal occasions.Even the religious worship has been forced to change, just to make it look like Japan.For more than forty years, I am afraid it will be a mess.

Li Zongren shook his head: "We don't have to worry about those! In short, this battle is won, and our lifelong volunteers can be regarded as fulfilled. Next time. It would be even better if we can land in Japan to fight."

Bai Chongxi laughed.If there is such a day, he might as well run to the front and lead the troops to fight in person, that would be a great honor.

The next moment, another question popped up in his mind unconsciously: "Zhu Bin has been shouting about the ocean-going fleet for a long time. So far no one has seen the specific ships, so is he just asking for a false name? Or does he have ulterior motives?"

People with big thoughts always like to make trouble for themselves. Bai Chongxi watched the military exercise, and his mind was endlessly popping up questions like a windmill.

Others didn't expect it to be so complicated. More than a dozen landing craft from the vanguard of the Second Marine Corps rushed onto the beach. Machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rockets covered them with a depth of one kilometer in front of them like a storm. Soldiers wearing bulletproof carrying equipment, bulletproof helmets on their heads, automatic rifles in their hands spit out flames, and shouted loudly on the beach!

Obstacles such as Luzhai, which was prepared to be blown to pieces by the artillery fire, became their natural barriers to avoid. The amphibious tanks that came down from the large landing craft acted as meat shields and pioneers. The flames blew up, blowing up the dark castles and permanent fortifications to the sky!

The infantry rushed up to sweep up the remnants of the enemy, and one by one positions were easily captured. From the beginning to the end, the defenders could hardly exert any resistance power, and were overwhelmed by waves of overwhelming attacks!

When the battle flag fluttering in the wind was planted on the top of the target, there was thunderous applause in the headquarters.Li Zongren tidied his clothes, walked up quickly, shook hands with the commanders one by one, and expressed his appreciation.

As the commander of the group army, Wang Weishan watched him and Bai Chongxi's unstinting admiration from the side, and couldn't help laughing in his heart. This drama is just for them to enjoy watching. In fact, if they really rushed to the beach and attacked like this inside the Zhu family army, they would have to laugh out loud. !

He went to Ryukyu Island to see the permanent fortifications built by the Japanese army. It was just a fort and air defense positions on the outer islands. The thickness of the reinforced concrete was far higher than that of conventional mountain stones. If you don't wear it, it even has a fire-proof and anti-gas design. It is difficult to eliminate them with conventional methods.It was only when the top cover was opened by the gliding bomb specially used for ground penetration attacks, and then it was destroyed with thermite incendiary bombs or other crazy things.

As Taiwan is an important colony of Japan, I am afraid that the strength of the fortifications will be beyond imagination!

The real way of attack is by no means as easy as it looks in front of you. Just relying on the unreasonable spread of shells from naval guns, don't expect to easily destroy dense bunker fortifications. Even ordinary horizontal bombing is unreliable.It's just that, when it comes to camp issues and military secrets, there's no need to reveal too much to them.Anyway, if you capture the landing field, you will have nothing to do with yourself.

This exercise is also an action to cheer up and increase confidence for the attacking troops in the entire theater. Obviously, after seeing the beachhead deployment and the entire attacking process with their own eyes, the violent and heinous attack firepower made all the non-Zhu forces feel Very relieved.

Similarly, the military attaches from various countries who mixed in to observe the battle also felt deeply, especially Britain and France, who were deeply worried that Germany, which had a deep relationship with China and military pedigree, might have such a terrifying attack force.If the Germans do the same thing, they want to defend their homeland, and they don't know what price they will pay!

But fortunately, so far, the number of German battleships is pitifully small, the entire navy is in a downturn, and landing ships are even rarer. The equipment for such amphibious assault tanks is also scarce. Before seizing sea control, they are still safe. .

But this kind of security is only temporary. If China and Germany conduct secret transactions, there will be quite a lot of trouble!It seems that if we want to stop them, we cannot control the attack on Taiwan.

On November 11th, after a short period of preparation and repair, the attack on Taiwan officially launched! (To be continued.)