From to 1935 2020

-------------------- Chapter 249 Lizi is not enough to seek -------------------

From September [-]rd, while the Japanese troops on the front line were constantly approaching Nanjing, the last wave of defeated troops from the front line also arrived in Nanjing at this time.

After Peng Shichuan officially took over Nanjing City Defense, Guo Rugui, who had gone south earlier than him, began to act publicly. The main task was to meet and gather the defeated Kuomintang soldiers who had retreated from the front line.Twenty miles to the east, he met Wei Lihuang, the commander of the No. 14 Army of the Kuomintang who had withdrawn from the front line. In just a few days, Wei Lihuang's hair was half gray.

In the past few years, Wei Lihuang has been unlucky. After the Battle of Shanxi, he was defeated again and again. He was defeated from the front line of Songhu, and now there are only a thousand troops left around him, and his weapons have also been seriously lost.

"Brother Junru, I won't hide it from you. I am going south this time, and I am not planning to cross the river again. The chairman gave me two tasks. One is to help the Nanjing government organize a retreat, and the other is to pack up the remnants here and establish a blockade. line, resist the Japanese army, and buy more time for the retreat of Nanjing City. Your troops are welcome to join us. If you need to retreat and rest, we will give you priority in arranging ships for you."

When Guo Rugui and Wei Lihuang were negotiating, a large number of Red Army troops entered the outskirts of Nanjing to take over the defense line. At this time, they were also constantly intercepting the retreating Kuomintang troops from the front.Those who are willing to stay and resist the Japanese will be accepted by the Red Army, and those who are unwilling to leave will be kept with weapons and ammunition, and they will be released and sent to the ship to leave.

Most of Chen Jitang's troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were Chang Kaishen's old troops. Unlike Chen Jitang's Cantonese army, the proportion of local people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was quite high, and the consciousness of "protecting the family" was very strong.Chen Jitang treated them badly. These people knew well that the Red Army was willing to accept them, and many of them stayed directly.

Guo Rugui has been in Nanjing for many years, and he is very familiar with the terrain in this area.And for this day, Huang Ke planted secrets around him early on.They are all working now—many of the troops that Guo Rugui brought over were local soldiers recruited locally, and now they have all returned to their nearby villages to mobilize the people and begin preparations for a decisive battle.

And Qiu Qingquan's tank regiment, which was retreating from the front line, was also stopped outside Nanjing City. It was his old friend Chen Geng who was negotiating with him. All tanks, including tanks, were handed over to the Red Army.After the previous defeat, Qiu Qingquan, the tank commander, now only has twelve tanks left in his hands, and two-thirds of the tanks were lost with the defeat.

Qiu Qingquan asked: "What are you Communist Party going to do when you cross the south of the Yangtze River at this time?"

Chen Geng replied: "Fight the defense of Nanjing!"

Qiu Qingquan: "There are [-] Japanese troops on the opposite side, and there will be more in the future..."

"The task assigned to us by the chairman is to attract the Japanese under the city of Nanjing for as long as possible, so as to buy time for other cities to prepare for war. Even if Nanjing cannot be defended in the future, we will be the last to evacuate Nanjing. We are willing to work together Resist the Japanese, infinitely welcome, if they want to leave, we will not stop them, but the tanks must stay.”

After being silent for three seconds, Qiu Qingquan stretched out his right hand and replied, "I have already been kicked off the tank by you once, and I don't want to be kicked off the tank by you again!"

Chen Geng smiled and stretched out his right hand: "Welcome to join!"

At about the same time, Wei Lihuang and Guo Rugui's right hands were also tightly held together.

From September 6000rd to September [-]th, the Red Army gathered more than [-] defeated Kuomintang soldiers from the front line.During this process, it was discovered that almost all of these routs were Chang Kaishen's old troops.

At that time, Wu Hao commented: "Chen Jitang's structure has reached this level."

At about the same time, Li Zongren, the leader of the Guangxi faction in Nanchang, was also stunned for a long time after learning that Chen Jitang had actually made a magic move to throw Nanjing to the Red Army's defense, and then he also said something similar to Wu Hao.

When Bai Chongxi was reading the original text of Peng Shichuan's famous speech in the report published in the newspaper, he snorted, "Li Runshi is a bit complacent."

At this time, he had received information that countless wooden boats and steamers were traveling back and forth on both sides of the Yangtze River day and night: transporting refugees and bringing in troops.In order to cut off this waterway, the Japanese army dispatched planes to continuously bomb ships on the Yangtze River.In response, fighter jets owned by the CCP, the Soviet Union, Chen Jitang, and even Zhang Xueliang are concentrating on the Yangtze River.

The Red Army in the north has sent a request to the Guangxi and Guangdong factions: In order to transport more troops to the south bank in a short time, they will transport troops from the Yangtze River in the Anqing area to the south and ask the Guangxi and Cantonese troops on the south bank to let them go.Under the premise of the national war of resistance, both Chen Jitang and Li Zongren agreed.Today the first batch of Red Army has been able to enter the south of the Yangtze River through Anqingchang, and then went east to support Nanjing.

Today, the eyes of the whole of China are on Nanjing.Li Zongren sighed:

"If Li Runshi really defends Nanjing this time, the world... must belong to Li Runshi!"

Bai Chongxi asked: "Are we going east with Li Runshi too?"

In his heart, he was actually not too happy. The reason was that in the past six months, the performance of the Communist Party in the north in resisting the Japanese invasion was so amazing that it even made all the warlords in the country "frightened".Just like what Li Zongren said, if he wins again this time, the popularity of the people in this world will belong to Li Runshi.

Li Zongren replied: "If we don't go to defend Nanjing with Li Runshi, we won't even have the qualifications to compete with him in the future. Chen Jitang, that idiot, in order not to bear the infamy of abandoning Nanjing for not fighting, he took a step and can't be more stinking The smelly chess!"

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"Tell me, how many troops can the empire mobilize now! What is the situation of the ten divisions that are being mobilized in the country!"

At the time of Chichibu Palace, Emperor Yongren already knew the information that the Communist troops went south to replace Chen Jitang to defend Nanjing.From the Battle of Bailing Temple to the just-concluded July Offensive, the entire army of the Locust Kingdom received all bad news and intelligence under the siege of the Red Army in the Northeast and North China. Today, Emperor Yongren has begun to lose control of the army of the Locust Kingdom. Confidence, compared to this, he distrusts even more, but it is the large group of "good officials" standing in the audience who pretend to be "the long-term plan of the locust country" and dedicate everything, but in fact they are fly-by-night.

"Why does Peng Shichuan know so much about the secrets of the locust army's purchase of German arms?"

"Why does he know the extremely confidential fiscal revenue data of the empire?"

"Why does he know the forces that the empire can mobilize?"

He asked a bunch of why in one breath, but all the senior officials below bowed to him with stern faces and pleaded guilty, but they didn't reply with a single useful suggestion.The members of the Tegao Technology Co., Ltd. vowed to find out the Communist Party spies hidden in the military headquarters and the Ministry of Finance (Ministry of Finance).There is indeed a communist spy at the top of Japan, but he is not in the Ministry of Finance and the military, but with the foreign minister.

In fact, Yongren has been hesitating about the plan to go south.But because of the reason that even Roosevelt could see through, he had to agree: After the war began, Japan, which had been defeated consecutively, suffered heavy losses.If you can't grab a big vote in China before winter comes, you won't be able to pass this year at all.

After Yongren roared for a while, he still couldn't get the real intelligence information of the Japanese army from the mouths of the red deer below.

As of September 1937, 45 divisions had been mobilized in Japan, and another five divisions were being formed. The total force was really about 120 million as Peng Shichuan said.However, Japan's weak national strength cannot provide enough ammunition to arm these troops in a short period of time. Everything is almost exactly the same as what Peng Shichuan said, and some are even worse.

Now Japan is in Northeast China and has thrown a total of 35 divisions.Numbers seem to be extremely powerful.However, twelve of the divisions are empty or semi-empty shells that have been beaten up. The worst is the fifth division that was wiped out under the city of Tongzhou. Its signs are not undone by the paper divisions.

In Northeast China and North China, there are only 23 divisions capable of fighting, and the September Autumn Harvest Offensive launched by the Soviets, based on previous experience, will lose at least three to four divisions after this battle.When Japan launched its southward advance plan, only ten divisions could be drawn from the country.Among them, there are only the third and fourth divisions in the A divisions, and the rest are B or C divisions. The latter two are far behind in terms of weapons and equipment and personnel quality.

And among the ten divisions, one has to be selected to stay in the mainland just in case, and the other is permanently stationed in Taiwan.As for North Korea, Japan no longer has a complete organized division there, and the law and order there is actually in charge of the retired troops that were previously disabled.There are only eight divisions that can really be used to participate in the southward plan, with a total of about 20 devil soldiers.

As for the five new divisions being formed in China, due to the lack of sufficient weapons, these five divisions are all ostentatious. Many soldiers are using wooden prop guns for standing drills, and the number and quality of the officers are also very high. low.

As Peng Shichuan said: After half a year of continuous defeats, Japan, unable to support wars with war, has reached its limit of mobilization, has people but no equipment, and has no more soldiers to fight.

In the plan of the base camp, the Japanese army that launched an offensive in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas had five divisions in name, which were composed of two fully staffed Type A divisions, two Type B divisions, and one Type C division. 11 troops.According to the plan formulated by the War Department, while attacking Nanjing, two of the remaining three divisions will be sent to Fujian, and the last one will cooperate with other newly mobilized troops to attack Shandong and northern Jiangsu in October. It can be said to be stretched to the point of stretching.

All of the above is based on the fact that Li Runshi's Red Army "will not save" the changing situation in the south. It never considered that Li Runshi's Red Army did not hesitate to mobilize the main force to go south to Nanjing and prepare to fight the Japanese here to the end.

Under the seat, Okamura Ningji gritted his teeth, stood up and reported:

"Your Majesty, the situation has changed. To take Nanjing City, the existing plan of five divisions is already insufficient in strength! The two divisions attacking Fujian must also be added! The reserve divisions must also be involved!"

"Seven divisions, do you need so many soldiers to wipe out Li Runshi's troops under the city of Nanjing? Do you need to use the reserve division? Using eight divisions to attack a city is really hard for you to think of!"

Even Yongren thinks it's too much.At present, the Communist Army does not have many troops around Nanjing, and there is no need for so many troops.

"No, this is just the beginning!"

Neji Okamura looked up.Then he handed over the brand new battle plan he made last night.

Yongren took a look and was shocked.

"This is your new plan?"

"Yes......"

Yongren endured so much that he didn't throw back the plan.

"It's ridiculous!"

"Li Runshi has seen the limit of the imperial kingdom! His current strategic goal is very simple: to treat Nanjing as a millstone, and to fight a war of attrition with the imperial kingdom here! 10, 20, 50 people, here No matter how much the loss is, he won't care! Now he holds the population and supplies of the entire North China in his hands, and after he shouted the slogan of defending Nanjing in a high-profile manner, he gathered the luck and luck of the entire China! In the defense of Nanjing here The forces under the big banner and other departments had to send troops to put the flesh and blood of Nanjing into the mill..."

Neiji Okamura lowered his head and tried his best to persuade him one last time: "If we can't take Nanjing in a flash in the next week to half a month, then under the management of Li Runshi, this place will become a elephant. The flesh and blood mill like Verdun exhausted the last mobile force of the Locust Kingdom!"

"So you proposed the plan to transfer troops from North Manchuria to Zhejiang, gather [-] to [-] divisions here, and fight a decisive battle with Li Runshi? Manchuria is the lifeline of the empire, you know what you are doing Do you know the dire consequences?"

"Jidong must be abandoned! It has been completely corrupted, and there is no value for income! The five divisions in the Jidong battlefield withdrew from Shanhaiguan, leaving one division and the 26th division to guard Rehe. The remaining four divisions can be used as mobile force..."

When Ningji Okamura said this, he scolded in his heart: "For the locust country, let me pierce this abscess in Jidong..."

In fact, psychologically, the gang of devils in Chichibu Palace have long thought of giving up the tasteless Jidong and shortening the battle line, but they have not waited for someone to stand up and pierce the abscess. Today they are very happy to see Okamura Ningji became the first bird.

Yong Ren's expression changed, and after a few seconds of silence, he asked again: "What about your second suggestion?"

"He fights his, we fight ours! Li Runshi's strategic goal is to fight us in Nanjing, to be precise, to fight a long-term war of attrition. If we can't take Nanjing in the next half month , this place will fall into the situation of a war of attrition that the Locust Kingdom least wants to see...but..."

Okamura Ningji came to his spirits, pointed to Shandong, Jiangsu, Fujian, and Guangdong on the Chinese map on the imperial table, and a series of coastal provinces that came down said to Yongren: "The weakness of China is actually obvious. Except for Li Runshi's troops, the rest All of them are local chickens and dogs. Chen Jitang's troops can only be seen by the Air Force, and now they are all restrained in Songhu."

"Shandong Han Fuqu is just a native chicken and dog like Zhang Xueliang. Needless to say, Zhang Xueliang from northern Jiangsu, and now he is going to send troops south to support Nanjing in order to wash away the charge of not resisting the general! The last Li Zongren's department, and Guangdong The two armies are the same, and in the past six months, because they have seized too much territory and the main force is outside, both Guangxi and Guangdong are empty of troops."

Neiji Okamura straightened his waist when he said this, looked at Yongren with the last bit of hope and said, "My second plan is not to attack Nanjing. Attacking Nanjing is just a cover for posture to attract Li Runshi and other warlords in China. The concentration of troops in the Nanjing area caused the defense lines elsewhere to be extremely empty. Compared with the Chinese army, the locust country has the convenience of shipping, and can quickly deploy a large number of troops in any province along the coast of China. However, the main forces of Guangdong and Guangxi are on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Guangdong and Guangxi are empty. ..."

Okamura Ningji's second set of plans is very simple to put it bluntly. The attack on Nanjing is just a cover. The five divisions that have entered Songhu can stop their troops now, and then concentrate on sweeping the surrounding areas of many rich counties and cities in northern Zhejiang.The political significance of Nanjing far outweighs the economic benefits. Before Chang Kaishen fell from power, Huang Ke colluded with the Central Unified Front to take over the raids. The most valuable things in Chang Kaishen’s house around Nanjing City were taken away—now there The most valuable is the gold pharmaceutical factory, but this is 100% American assets. Although the Japanese are greedy, they have nothing to do because they need the support of the United States.

The core of Neiji Okamura's vision is actually looting tactics.It is now September, the autumn harvest season, and the Songhu and Zhejiang regions will shrink after a wave of rushing. At the same time, taking advantage of the rapid deployment of troops by sea, they will take turns to attack China's coastal provinces, especially the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi in the south of the Yangtze River. (Although Guangxi has no outlet to the sea at this time, it can be entered from the junction of Guangdong)

Not for occupation, only for looting.The goal of the campaign is to eliminate the vital forces of the Kuomintang army, rob them when they are finished fighting, and leave when they are finished.

In the report that Neiji Okamura handed over to Yongren, he clearly stated his vision: The locust army is actually very short of weapons and equipment, and the large amount of seizures obtained by fighting these weak chickens is enough to help the country in the short term. Armed with five divisions.Now is the beginning of the autumn harvest season in September. According to his idea, this wave of rushing through will not take much time after the grabbing is over. It can not only avoid the bad war of public security, but also avoid the division of troops that would cause the main force of the Japanese army to disperse. Have the maritime advantage of commanding the sea.

Yongren, Konoe Fumimaro, Shoutaijiichi, and the old devils looked at the suggestion submitted by Neiji Okamura, gritted their teeth together and took a breath of cold air, and their hearts were moved by coincidence.

The advantage of this second suggestion is that it can avoid fighting Li Runshi, the most troublesome opponent of the Japanese army, preserve the vitality of the imperial army to the greatest extent, and at the same time suck blood from China as much as possible.Six months of consecutive defeats, nothing gained in China and a lot of losses. The pressure in Japan is already so great that it is about to explode. After seeing his second battle plan, all the devils and senior officials in front of Yongren Yuqian were completely moved.

Yongren thought for a while and asked: "Your two proposals are great, but now the Locust Kingdom needs a big victory to boost the morale of the people. Nanjing is very important, so we can't just give up like this. Can you see if you can combine these two proposals?" A combination of plans...."

Neiji Okamura's face trembled, and he pressed his right hand to his chest, where his prepared resignation report was hidden.

Lizi is not enough to seek!

This is what he thinks at the moment!

-------------------- Chapter 250 Boozing of Two Frustrated People-------------------

As the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Nanjing's geographical location is quite good.

From the perspective of interior defense, Nanjing seems to be an impeccable city.

It is backed by the Yangtze River in the northwest and has waterways to rely on, so it cannot be besieged naturally.

On land, Nanjing is not like the general city in the south of the Yangtze River.To the east of Nanjing City, from north to south, there are hilly areas such as Mufu Mountain, Zhongshan Mountain, and Yuhuatai, which are conducive to condescendingly attacking the enemy troops who are crossing the flat ground.In the outer periphery, there are continuous mountainous areas such as Qixia Mountain and Tangshan Mountain, which are natural barriers for the army's concealed defense.

And on the flat land between these mountains, there is also a well-developed Qinhuai River system to block it, which can slow down the marching speed and increase the defense.

"The tiger occupies the dragon plate, and the mountains and rivers depend on each other" is the best summary of this place.

When Huang Ke first came to Nanjing and inspected the surrounding area, his evaluation at that time was: Chang Kaishen is really a waste of money.With such a good terrain, even in the later period of the Songhu Battle, the Japanese army successfully landed in Hangzhou Bay and copied the rear route and was defeated.As long as the command is proper and the retreat is orderly, there shouldn't be such a tragic situation of being defeated across the board and being blocked and slaughtered in the city.

The regime is simply too incompetent and corrupt to the extreme.

Li Runshi's Red Army in the north had long been on guard against the Japanese army's southward advance to launch a fierce attack in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.As early as the Pingjin War, they had been hoarding large troops in the Chuzhou area across the river from Nanjing City—this force was the 42nd Army formed by Guo Rugui's uprising troops as the core.

Not only did they assemble heavy troops and ships in Qiaolin and Pukou, but they also placed a division of Red Army troops in the Yizheng-Guazhou area on the north bank of Zhenjiang, a satellite city in the northeast of Nanjing, which protected Nanjing.The Red Army's most important ally in the delta area north of the Yangtze River Estuary, and the troops of the Northeast Army have also gathered heavy troops here for a long time.When the Battle of Tongzhou was at its most intense, Zhang Xueliang offered to Li Runshi more than once to send the Northeast Army northward for support, but Li Runshi refused even the air force support.After the Battle of Tongzhou, Li Runshi, who showed confidence, fully believed that the Japanese army could be blocked in the Hebei area.But the Lianghuai and Yangtze River basins are beyond reach.

After the Battle of Tongzhou, the Red Army in the north transferred a large number of veterans who had participated in the Battle of Tongzhou and had experience fighting the Japanese army to the south to join Guo Rugui's troops, and then continued to fill in and expand the army. The total strength of the 42nd Army has exceeded 3000.

However, Chen Jitang, who made his capital in Nanjing, also felt very uncomfortable because of such a giant red dragon "lying" on the north bank of the Yangtze River for a long time.

The 42nd Army was the first Red Army unit to cross the south, and then the Red Army units of the other armies with the main force of the former Red Fourth Army as the core will also continue to cross the Yangtze River in the upper reaches of Nanjing in the next few days. At that time, in the entire Nanjing area, the main force of the Red Army alone exceeded 10 people.

And the time when the Red Army and the Japanese attacking Jiangnan fought for the first time was the same day that Chen Jitang asked the Red Army for help. On this day, Zhenjiang fell - the defenders fled without a fight.

To the north of Zhenjiang is the Yizheng-Guazhou area, but the defenders are the troops of Sun Yuqing, the former commander of the Ninth Red Army, who have long been ready to cross the south of the Yangtze River at any time.As soon as the Japanese army started fighting in Songhu, Sun Yuqing's troops mobilized immediately, and the Zhenjiang defenders kept "in touch" with each other until they were about to flee without a fight. .

At that time, according to the instructions of the central government, Sun Yuqing had three tasks for crossing the river: one was to pick up and evacuate the civilians in Zhenjiang City as much as possible; There are mines on the road.

Sun Yuqing's 6000-strong force crossing the river faced the elite Second Division of the Japanese Army rushing forward.Due to the huge difference in strength, Sun Yuqing's troops just fought and retreated. Since it was not a deadly battle but a blocking and disturbing battle, neither side suffered much loss.After a day's delay, according to the superior's instructions, more than 3000 troops were actively dispersed to avoid the aggressive main force of the Japanese army. They sneaked into the enemy's rear with regiments and battalions as units, waiting for opportunities, while the rest retreated towards Nanjing.

After entering the undefended city of Zhenjiang, the Japanese army continued to kill, burn, and loot for a day.It was only on September [-] that under the order of the Tokyo camp, they attacked to the southwest, in an attempt to open the gate to Nanjing from here.

However, the first thing they want to take is Baohua Mountain, then Qixia Mountain, Tangshan Mountain, then Mufu Mountain and Zhongshan Mountain, and finally they can see the Nanjing City Gate after they capture Yuhuatai—following this route The attack on Nanjing seems to be less than [-] kilometers away, and it takes three hours to drive to Nanjing. In fact, it is necessary to take down the hills, which can make people vomit blood.

The Second Division saw that the Red Army had occupied Baohua Mountain in advance, and immediately after repairing the defensive position, it detoured around Baohua Mountain, a large area of ​​hilly mountains, and was preparing to join forces with another Japanese army that landed in Hangzhou Bay. From the south of Nanjing, along the Qinhuai North attack Nanjing. (Note: Historically they have also been like this)

On September [-], another Japanese army that landed from Hangzhou Bay captured Jurong and Lishui, which had been evacuated, and attacked Nanjing from the south, bypassing the hills and mountains.

During the meeting of the Tokyo Military Headquarters, Okamura Ningji said to the upper echelon: If Nanjing cannot be captured within half a month, the entire Songhu battle will turn into a terrible meat grinder war of attrition, which will eventually drag Japan to death.In order to avoid this situation, the Japanese army must assemble [-] to [-] divisions in Songhu and take Songhu in a blitz.

"Actually, I submitted two plans at the time, and the first plan had a huge flaw."