The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

223 Octopus Swordfish Demonstration 1

They were nearly paralyzed by the National Defense Army's landmine feast, and the thousands of people who were alive were taken advantage of by the 11th Reorganization Division of the National Army. The unfortunate fate of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army cannot be said to be unprecedented, but at least it is unprecedented!

If it is said that the 32nd Division was ambushed by a minefield and then hit by the 11th Division of the National Army, it is already unlucky enough, but there is one more unlucky thing, that is, during the mine explosion/explosion, the Japanese army The radio station was either completely buried in the ground, or it was blown up, and there was no time to report the situation to the Japanese 11th Army and the East China Front Army Command.

If they had a radio station, the 115th Division would be only 15 kilometers away from the nearest regiment in Zhoujing Lane. Although the railway had been damaged, they would reach Zhoujing Lane in just over two hours by running along the railway for support.However, the Japanese army did not even have the luck to grasp the last straw.

国军第11师从先头部队24日凌晨1点30分与日军接战开始，到早晨4点30分，总共只用了3个小时，除1000余名日军沿着铁路线向苏州方向逃窜之外，其余日军均被黄维手下击毙。

"Quick, quick, clean up the battlefield, and then retreat!" Huang Wei shouted excitedly looking at the thousands of dead Japanese soldiers killed by his men.

At 1937 o'clock in the morning on December 12, 24, Wang Shihe, the director of the chairman's attendant office, ran excitedly to the place where Chiang Kai-shek was staying, and knocked on the door loudly.

"Who is it?" Generalissimo Jiang asked sleepily.

"Chairman, great victory! Huang Wei's Department completely wiped out the 32nd Division of the Japanese forwards in the suburbs of Wuxi!" Although there was no one in front of him or behind him, Wang Shihe was still waving the telegram in his hand as he spoke.

"Quickly, inform Lin Sen and the others that I will hold a press conference at 8 o'clock!" Chiang Kai-shek said happily after reading the telegram.

In Chiang Kai-shek's view, Huang Wei's telegram should be true, because Huang Wei said in the telegram that in this battle, the 11th Division killed Lieutenant General Tomaidi, the commander of the 32nd Division, and Major General Yamada Tsunetaro, the commander of the 63rd Brigade. There are more than 64 officers and soldiers below the rank of lieutenant general in the Japanese army, including Major General Sadaji Kuroshima, the head of the 23000th Brigade. The most important thing is that Huang Wei also captured the division flag of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army.

Naturally, the results of the battle are not fake, and the corpses of the enemy generals and the flags of the Japanese army will not be conjured out of thin air.However, there is a big lie in this, that is, the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army was not wiped out by Huang Wei's reorganized 11th Division at all. If you insist on saying that they have credit, it is actually equivalent to annihilating a regiment of the enemy at most.

The reason why Huang Wei dared to cheat like this was because when the battlefield was being cleaned, the National Defense Forces sent a liaison officer, and the liaison officer sent a telegram signed by Wu Aihua.The telegram only had a short sentence: "Congratulations to General Huang Wei for annihilating the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army."

The signature of the telegram is: "Wu Aihua, Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces."

If Huang Wei didn't know the meaning of this telegram, he might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill him.Of course, Huang Wei was surprised at first, how could Wu Aihua send himself such a telegram.However, the liaison officer helped Huang Wei clear up his confusion, "Our military commander said that the national army needs a victory to cheer up our spirits! Besides, we don't want the Japanese army to know that we have arrived at the Shanghai-Nanjing front line."

"Thank you National Defense Forces, thank you Commander Wu." Huang Wei said sincerely.

Indeed, before receiving this telegram, Huang Wei was rather distressed.That is, the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army has been wiped out. The corpses of the three Japanese generals and several Japanese military flags are all ironclad evidence of the Japanese Army's annihilation.However, how to report the ambush to the Ministry of National Defense made it difficult for Huang Wei to make a decision, saying that one of his divisions wiped out one division of the Japanese army?Although there are "real things" as proof, those people in the Ministry of Defense are not just for nothing, as long as they let themselves write a combat briefing, they will show up. Besides, there are so many people in the division, how can they keep everyone's mouths shut?

With Wu Aihua's telegram, this matter will be handled easily.When publicizing to the outside world, of course the credit goes to the reorganized 11th Division of the National Army; but in the report to the Ministry of National Defense or the personal telegram to Chairman Jiang, some explanations can be given, such as "the small unit of the National Defense Army has provided necessary cooperation", etc. .

Wu Aihua took the initiative to give up the credit for the ambush in Zhoujing Lane, which made the precarious national government and the already bad reputation of the national army seem like a shot in the arm.

As soon as Generalissimo Jiang's press conference opened, within half an hour, people all over the world knew that the national army ambushed and wiped out more than 11 people from the 32nd Division of the 23000th Army of the Japanese Army last night, including the Japanese division. The fourth floor of Changtomamidi waited for three generals.

Since the reorganization division was equipped and trained by the Germans, the Germans were particularly happy about Huang Wei's victory. The Germans proudly announced in their newspapers: The record of Eastern China shows that the German army has the most powerful military in the world. Excellent training level and the best combat tactics.

However, this is by no means Wu Aihua pretending to be generous, but that he has deeper thoughts in it.The credit for annihilating the enemy is just a trick to ask for directions.

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Zhu Xian's Fourth Brigade quickly disappeared from the Wuxi area after completing such a big move in Zhoujing Lane, and the "Storm and Thunder" operation was just an opening.

Jiangyin, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, is known as the throat of the Yangtze River and the fortress of defense against the Yangtze River. On the Jiangyin-Wuxi line, controlling the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, it has been a place where military strategists must be true since ancient times.

In the original history, if the Japanese army wants to capture Nanjing, they must first capture the Jiangyin Fortress. This broke out the famous "Jiangyin Defense War". The Japanese army dispatched more than 28000 troops from the sea, land and air forces, and attacked for 18 consecutive days. The Chinese navy and army had a total of more than 30000 troops. They used means including self-sinking warships to resist, but eventually the Japanese army captured Jiangyin Fort.

The task of the "Storm and Thunder" plan for the Swordfish troops is to monitor the Japanese fleet in the Yangtze River Basin below Jiangyin and notify the Air Force of the National Defense Forces to bomb the Japanese fleet in due course.

However, when Liu Renhai, the deputy captain of the Swordfish Troop, arrived in the Yangtze River Basin with more than [-] soldiers, he had other thoughts.

In December, the Yangtze River is in the dry season. The river is already very narrow, and there are large and small sand states in the river from time to time. The narrowest part of the river is only about two kilometers.

"If, I mean, if mines are planted on the river, how will the Japanese warship pass?" Looking at the channel between Shazhou and the river bank, Dong Yuqing, the captain of the Swordfish No. [-] squadron, said to Liu Renhai thoughtfully.

"Mines? It's a good idea, but the Japanese army may not have minesweepers." Liu Renhai thought for a while and said.

Sea mines are generally used as a weapon to block the enemy, and it seems that it is not easy to really achieve the purpose of destroying the enemy or sinking a warship.

"I think we can do this..." Dong Yuqing expressed his thoughts.

"Okay, that's really good, but whether your idea is valid or not, you have to ask Captain Kong or Commander Wu for instructions." Liu Renhai immediately agreed after hearing Dong Yuqing's idea.

Immediately Liu Renhai reported Dong Yuqing's thoughts to Kong Wu.At this time, Kong Wu and Wu Aihua had already arrived in Shanghai. After learning about Swordfish's idea, Wu Aihua immediately used his brains to perfect the idea, and at the same time instructed the Air Force to use the night to airdrop supplies to Swordfish troops.

What is Dong Yuqing's idea?It turned out that, seeing the narrow waterway, he thought it would be possible to use mines to stop the enemy, but considering that warships are generally more defensive against mines, he thought of a trick. If the mines were fixed at the bottom of the river, they would float to the surface of the river only when the Japanese warships arrived. , In this way, the devil's warship will definitely be hard to guard against and will be recruited.Of course, to fix the mine underwater and let it float up at that time, Dong Yuqing's idea is to string the mine with a cable, and at the same time bury it deep in the mud at the bottom of the river, and wait for the devil warship to arrive. , The swordfish soldiers on Shazhou pull hard on the cable, and the mine will break free from the pressure of the mud and float to the surface.

When Wu Aihua heard about this idea, he thought it was very good.However, this idea also has shortcomings, that is, only one warship of the Japanese army can be ambushed, because when a warship hits a mine, the other warships will definitely stop to avoid or even flee downstream.

Wu Aihua's perfected plan is: first, instead of using 2-kilometer or 3-kilometer cables, the longest 1-kilometer cable is enough.But not one, but many.Second, the mines do not need to be tied directly to the cables, but are strung together like bunches of grapes with tiny nylon ropes, with 5-10 mines in a string, and the distance between each mine is 2-5 meters. When the mines floated on the river surface, a string of mines could be as long as (cross) the river surface of 10-50 meters.Third, put these mine strings into the bottom of the river, press them down with stones or something, and tie the stones with cables. Automatically floats to the surface.

As long as the number of mine strings is sufficient, the distance between the mine strings is proper, and the operation is proper, it is not difficult to destroy a devil fleet.

When Liu Renhai and others received the telegram from Commander Wu, hundreds of marines were almost ecstatic. This is the plan that Commander Wu came up with. Not enough for us to fry.

The National Defense Force has military technology from the 1945s, and the National Defense Force's territory spans the two coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong. Naturally, mine production is indispensable.Of course, there are still relatively few types of mines in the National Defense Force at this time. There are only two types of mines: contact mines and magnetic mines. The former must be in physical contact with the warship, and the latter must reach the corresponding magnetic level to explode.

On the Yangtze River waterway, it is enough to use contact mines.

According to the relevant provisions of international law, the deployment of mines on the sea surface or in rivers must be "announced" to the outside world, because of the fear that civilian ships will run into mines, but it is difficult for countries around the world to do so. During World War II a few years later, the United Kingdom deployed a large number of mines. Sea mines, but a simple announcement: "Our country has deployed sea mines in the English Channel, the North Sea and other sea areas."

Lie to ghosts, the English Channel is so long and the North Sea is so wide, where are the mines?Therefore, if a civilian ship really encounters it, it can only be considered unlucky.