The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 210 The Shadow of Benzhuang Fan (The King is Back!)

After the baptism of the North China Campaign, the Japanese army has attached great importance to small terrain operations.It can be said that because of Wu Aihua's "pointing out", the Japanese army's tactics have been substantially improved. Although they dare not say that they are at the same level as the National Defense Forces, at least there will be no such situation that the two armies cannot fight back when they meet.

"Da da da, da da da..." Just when Deng Mingshan was still trying to hold on with fortifications and fortresses, suddenly, there was another burst of machine guns behind him, and about a small group of Japanese soldiers were moving towards him and others along the trench. charge!

It turned out that the topography of the Deng Mingshan Camp and its ground structures had long been scouted by Japanese planes. Although the pictures taken by the planes were not clear enough, they could not stand up to the staff's analysis. Therefore, this fortification made of reinforced concrete was the only one. The weak point is this obvious trench, because its tail leads to the Huangpu River, and its purpose is naturally to remove rainwater and accumulated water in the trench.It's a pity that Deng Mingshan didn't send soldiers to defend the river, otherwise, these "water ghosts" would be "named" directly by official rifles as soon as they appeared.

"Brothers, fight!" Deng Mingshan made a decisive decision. At this time, if he retreated out of fear, he would definitely be chased and killed by the Japanese army. Hold your ground, even if you have to retreat, you will have plenty of time to arrange.

Following Deng Mingshan's order, using the guard platoon as an arrow, nearly a hundred soldiers of the national army turned their guns and rushed towards the Japanese army who broke into the position.

"Da da da, da da da..." Since the distance was less than a hundred meters, the two sides fired at each other with the most violent automatic firepower as soon as they met.

Immediately, the Japanese army and the national army were brought down a few people, and the battle in the trenches also fell into a stalemate.

"Yingzuo, greet the Japanese army with a small cannon!" Just when neither side could do anything to the other, the battalion deputy Hou Desheng ran up with a 20mm rapid-fire gun.

"Okay, push the cannon up and blow up the son of a bitch!" Deng Mingshan calmed down when he saw the cannon.

The biggest difference between a cannon and a gun is that a bullet can only be effective if it hits the enemy directly, while a cannonball, even a small 20mm shell, can kill the enemy as long as it is hit near the enemy, because the bullet is filled with explosives , as long as it touches a hard object, it will explode.

"Tom tom tom..." After 1 minute, the rapid-fire gun began to show its power.

"Battalion Commander, the enemy is rushing up!" Just as they were suppressing the Japanese army emerging from the river, the devils in the front finally seized the opportunity when the firepower of the national army weakened, and a grenadier team advanced a distance of about 100 meters. .

"Ah..." Deng Mingshan screamed when he saw the devil hiding in the shooting blind spot.At this time, he realized what a serious mistake he made when the engineering troops built this position, and at the same time he knew that he had made the same mistake!Because the devils can use grenades to shell every machine gun hole, but the machine guns of the national army can't "take care" of these more than ten Japanese troops.

However, if the national army wanted to wipe out the Japanese grenadier group, it had to pass through an open area blocked by the Japanese machine gun position. This battle was difficult to fight!

"Communication Adjutant, report to the regiment headquarters immediately and ask for support!" Deng Mingshan calmed down and made the most correct decision.

In Deng Mingshan's view, if the regiment headquarters could send a company to make a surprise attack on the frontal Japanese positions, he would not only be able to wipe out the enemy's grenadier team, but he could even take back the front positions.

What Deng Mingshan didn't understand was that at this time, not only the 23rd Regiment of Shiro Fujita of the Japanese Army had come up, but the entire defense line of the 88th Division was attacked by the Japanese Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai. The 527 regiment was not only unable to rescue Deng Mingshan's 1st battalion, but was also attacked by a brigade of the Japanese army.

"Camp, camp, the commander ordered our battalion to leave the position and quickly move to the urban area!" Just after Deng Mingshan and others wiped out the devils who climbed up from the Huangpu River, the communications adjutant ran up to report.

"What's going on?" Deng Mingshan couldn't understand. Although the Japanese army in front of him was very powerful, the national army was not vegetarian.

"The head of the regiment said that all the main defense points of our 88th Division have been violently attacked by the Japanese army, and the regiment headquarters can't send a single reinforcement." The communications adjutant added.

What should I do, should I just withdraw like this?Deng Mingshan was a little undecided.

"The camp should be interrupted continuously, and it will definitely be in chaos. This time, the Japanese are obviously attacking with a large force!" the communications adjutant persuaded.

"Boom—" Just as Deng Mingshan hesitated for a while, the Japanese naval guns had already come up.

"Retreat——" Deng Mingshan knew that no matter how powerful his hundreds of people were, they would not be able to withstand the attack of naval guns with a caliber of more than 200mm.

In fact, as the vanguard of the Japanese 11th Army, in addition to the 6th Division attacking and advancing along the Huangpu River, the 23rd Division also successfully landed on the beach from Shihekou, and attacked Luodian where the first part of the 36th Division was stationed. It is at least one division of the Japanese Marine Corps stationed in Shanghai. The Japanese army has as many as three Class A divisions, plus a powerful surface fleet attacking at the same time. armed forces.

However, the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai lasted only three days. As soon as Generalissimo Jiang's order to mobilize reinforcements was issued, news of Shanghai's fall came. The 36th Division, 87th Division, and 88th Division, the three first-class main divisions and sample divisions of the national government, only half of them were left when they were withdrawn, and most of them were wounded. I wanted to remove the three division commanders for investigation Generalissimo Chiang, seeing the miserable state of the troops, had no choice but to give up.

In history, the Songhu Anti-Japanese War lasted three months, and the above three divisions stood alone for nearly a month. Why did they only persist for three days in this era?

Is the Japanese army really strong enough to be invincible?

Speaking of which, the reasons are quite complicated.

Compared with the same period in history, because the Japanese army was strongly blocked by the National Defense Forces in North China, the lesson of losing troops and losing generals led the Japanese army to rapidly expand and increase its troops. The strength of the Japanese army is undoubtedly.

At the same time, the Japanese army summed up the experience and lessons of the North China War, and their tactics were more mature than those of the same period in history, with less arrogance in the same period of history, more combat tactics, and stronger artillery, machine guns and other equipment.Originally, if the Japanese army in history was not so arrogant compared with the Chinese army, the Pingxingguan and Taierzhuang victories would have never happened.In parallel time and space, the arrogance of the Japanese army has been severely damaged in North China, and the equipment and operations of the troops have been strengthened in a targeted manner.Therefore, it is understandable that the Japanese army occupied Shanghai in such a short period of time.

However, the changes in the Japanese army were far from being at the tactical level, but at the strategic level.The Japanese army chose to attack Shanghai first, which is the success of its strategy.

However, the reason why the Japanese army first attacked Shanghai has an extremely close relationship with Shigeru Honjo, the culprit of the Japanese invasion of China.It can be said that all of this was brought about by Fan Zhuang's efforts.

Shigeru Honjo, a native of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy in 1897. He is a rare "China expert" in the Japanese army.Originally, Shige Honjo in history had already been thrown into limbo because of the February 1931 incident, but because of the birth of Wu Aihua, Shige Honjo had a "useful place" again, although the Japanese base camp did not give Shige Honjo any real benefits position, but the title of "China War Adviser" is also indispensable.

Historically, after the Japanese North China Front Army made military progress in North China, the war in Shanghai was in fact provoked by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, because the Japanese army hoped that the Nationalist government would fight it in North China, but how could Chiang Kai-shek follow the Japanese army's idea? , So there was the Songhu War of Resistance.

In parallel time and space, the biggest enemy of the Japanese army is the two national defense forces living in Fujian and Chahar. The Japanese army naturally launched an attack on these two armies, seeking a strategic decisive battle.However, Shigeru Honjo vehemently opposed it as a "China War Advisor".

There are three reasons for this Zhuangfan:

One, Japan desperately needs a victory!As long as they attack Shanghai, the Japanese army can win a relatively smooth victory, so as to inspire and inspire the hearts of the people and the army.

Second, attacking Chiang Kai-shek's national government troops could lead to chaos in China.Just imagine, if the "central army" and the central government have been defeated, what will happen to those local powerful factions?Even if a person like Wu Aihua emerges, it will be impossible to integrate the power of the whole of China within two or three years.

Third, the advantage of the Japanese army lies in the navy.Although the navy can also attack Fujian, its effect is only limited to the coast. The most important thing is that Wu Aihua's National Defense Force is the most difficult to mess with.But going up the Yangtze River can not only avoid a premature encounter with the Wu Aihua Group, but also give full play to the strength of the navy and quickly burn the flames of war to the inland of China.

Therefore, Shigeru Honjo believes that the Japanese army should attack Shanghai first!

As soon as Honjo Shigeru's opinion came out, the generals of the Japanese Army's General Staff Headquarters also demonstrated the benefits of attacking Shanghai, as if suddenly enlightened.

If the National Defense Forces can be mobilized to assist Shanghai, then the Japanese army can take advantage of the situation to attack in the direction of Fujian or Chahar!If the national defense forces did not move in the above two places, then the Japanese army could go up the Yangtze River and sweep across the whole of southern China, and even hit the hinterland of southwestern China.

As for whether the Japanese army can successfully defeat the Nationalist government's army, no one considers it.Because everyone understands: If Chiang Kai-shek's army is as strong as the National Defense Forces, then the Japanese army is no match at all, and it is better to withdraw troops early!

This is because the Japanese headquarters and the General Staff have fully estimated the combat effectiveness of the National Defense Forces: In land combat, the combat power ratio between the Japanese Army and the National Defense Forces should be quite equal, that is, 1:1. The ratio will become 1.2:0.8.However, if the national government's nearly one million German armored divisions had reached the level of the National Defense Forces, the 60 divisions of the Japanese army would not be enough.Because it is impossible for the Japanese army to use 60 divisions for attack, and the Kwantung Army in the Northeast has to stay at least one army. Besides, if a place is conquered, troops must be sent to occupy and guard it.

"China Hand" Honjo Shigeru saw that the Japanese General Staff Headquarters and East China Front Army General Matsui Iwane finally adopted his suggestion, and put forward two suggestions from the tactical point of view: first, advance quickly; second, wipe out a large number of the enemy's vital forces and Quickly disintegrate China's determination to resist.

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