From to 1935 2020

Stalin knew the current predicament of the Japanese, and the purpose of the September Autumn Harvest Offensive, in addition to continuing to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese army, he gave Zhukov another instruction: After entering, seize as many grain-producing areas as possible—you can abandon it later according to military needs. Occupy the area, but be sure to take away as much food and civilians as possible from the local harvest.

In the previous six months of offensive, the Soviet Red Army liberated a large area of ​​land, but there was a shortage of people.Entered, went around, transported away food and residents, depending on the situation, we need to back down, not leaving a grain of food for the Japanese....

After a wave, the Japanese's autumn income in half of Heilongjiang Province will be gone.

"Zhukov played very firmly in North Manchuria. After he got what he wanted, he retreated immediately. And Stalin trusted him very much. In Stalin's instructions to the Soviet Union in the Far East, he publicly publicized that the war between Chilu and the Locust Kingdom was a "millstone war." ", they are going to slowly grind the locust country to pieces in three years."

Shi Yuan smiled darkly, and said in a trembling tone: "He said that a long time ago. I thought he was talking nonsense, but after I walked around Beiman, I can be sure that he really did it!"

"What's even more frightening is that Yang Jingyu's Anti-Union Department is also growing. During the September offensive, on the frontal battlefield, his soldiers and Lucia's troops have participated in the attack on the Imperial Army. Next, North Manchuria will It’s winter. After one winter, more soldiers enter North Manchuria from the south, and I can almost imagine how bad the situation there will be when spring begins in April and May next year!”

There will be another chapter tonight, let’s update this chapter first

-------------------- Chapter 253 The factory exploded to the sky --------------------

After Ishihara Waner finished talking about the battle situation in the Northeast, he asked Toshishiro Obata, "How is Songhu going? How many more troops will the headquarters plan to send there?"

"Peng Shichuan laughed at the whole world that the Imperial Kingdom only had ten divisions of mobile troops. Your Majesty has transferred all the recruits from the ten divisions I have in hand. The last two divisions will be around [-]. It will be transported to Jiangsonghu in about a day."

Toshishiro Obata glanced at Ningji Okamura and said, "At that time, there will be twelve divisions attacking Nanjing!"

"Finally reached the lowest limit Okamura-kun said!"

"thumping!"

The sound of slamming the table was the sound of Toshishiro Obata, who had always seemed kind, leaving violently.

"Baga! Of the seven divisions added in Songhu, the longest training period for four divisions is only four months, and the training period for the two most recent divisions is less than three months. They are all recruits. Recruits!"

Toshishiro Obata's eyes were bloodshot, roaring like a beast with a wounded head,

"They are the future of the imperial kingdom, the elites of the imperial kingdom, but now they are all going to be thrown into the fire pit in Nanjing, and exchanged with those illiterate mud-legged soldiers under Li Runshi, fighting a battle of human life that is destined to fail! "

"Okamura said that twelve divisions would be dispatched to take Nanjing. That was within fifteen days, before Li Runshi could transport the main force to Nanjing! But now a month has passed, and they have just seen the outermost city of Nanjing. Door!"

"What will happen in a month? I asked the wounded soldiers who returned from Songhu, and asked about the battle there."

"The first half month was fine, but in the last half month, there are landmines everywhere on the front line. The low-quality landmines have all appeared in the North China battlefield. It is obvious that Li Runshi has transported a large amount of equipment and troops to the south of the Yangtze River. .In one month, Li Runshi has completed the transfer of troops."

"The tenth divisions that were taken away from me were actually all recruits, and they were all recruited into the disabled divisions when they were transported to Zhi. There is no shortage of people on my side. The situation in China It's getting worse and worse. Joining the army can save a ration and earn an extra ration for the family. In fact, my conscription quota has been used up very early, but what's the use of just having people?"

"Dynamite, steel, all are not enough. The recruits I trained earlier used German guns, but next month, we even have to import firearms and equipment from the United States. What makes me feel even more absurd is that the dispatch to the Of the four supplementary divisions in Songhu, the number of firearms in two of them only met [-]% of the demand share - the rest were replenished from the front line after arriving in Songhu. Such a ridiculous thing was unimaginable in the past .”

"We lost, we lost the battle of Songhu. In fact, we have already lost strategically. But those national thieves in the base camp, like fools, kept throwing their troops into the bottomless pit of Songhu, and were defeated by Li Runshi." Playing like a monkey."

Toshishiro Obata became more and more angry, and the table was pounded loudly by him.Fortunately, this is a high-end restaurant, and the boss knows him. If someone else said those words out loud here, the clerk would have secretly called the police to arrest him as a "non-citizen".

Neiji Okamura said in a semi-self-deprecating tone:

"The only good news is that they finally captured Wuhu and completed the semi-siege of Nanjing. Strategically, they cut off Nanjing's access to reinforcements by land!"

"There is a fart, there is a Yangtze River waterway behind it!"

Toshishiro Obata said with a dark face.

"In the past month, the flying team of the Imperial Kingdom did not take advantage of the sky over Nanjing. The planes of the Communist Party have been blocking the sky, and the bombing results have been poor. After the red deer of the navy lost many planes there, now In Nanjing there is no effort to work..."

As long as the Red Army can continue to obtain supplies through the Yangtze River waterway, this waterway will be the source of the biggest nightmare for the Japanese army to attack Nanjing.

"How's the situation with Tada Hayao?"

"So far, everything is going well. But he killed, burned, and looted everywhere in Shandong, and the final result was to drive all the civilians in the province to Li Runshi's side."

After the vent-like complaints were over, the three old devils lost the mood to continue talking in detail, and left one after another after paying the bill.

When Neiji Okamura and Toshishiro Obata returned to the reserve force to train new recruits, they saw a large number of recruits holding Springfield rifles to familiarize themselves with and try to disassemble them.

In the past, Japan laughed at China's domestic weapons as the IWC brand, but now Japan's situation is not much better than China's. German weapons, Italian weapons, and American weapons are all becoming the main weapons of the army.The Springfield rifles that have just arrived in the past few days are American products—due to the huge demand and the urgent need on the front line, only the United States can provide a large amount of "old munitions" from World War I in a short period of time.

On October [-]th, shortly after the "locust army" of the Fourth Division, which was the first to attack the city of Nanjing, saw the city wall, in order to prevent the Red Army from continuing to use the Yangtze River waterway to increase troops that night, the Japanese military risked at all costs to attack the city at night. Planes were dispatched to start an air strike, which sank a small number of ships crossing the river.

But the Japanese army themselves now know it hard.The Japanese army aviation has only a small number of aircraft in Songhu, and the air cover mainly relies on the support of the navy.But the navy doesn't care about the life and death of horse manure at all, and now the support for Songhu is getting weaker and weaker-Sanben 56 has complained more than once, helping the army Malu with air support for a month, his air carrier It is about to become an "empty" mother.

When the Japanese aircraft’s nighttime air raid on the Yangtze River was still in progress, a loud noise came from the Gold Pharmaceutical Factory located near the river on the south side of the Yangtze River in the middle of the night.

The next day, the Americans protested to Japan: the famous "Golden Pharmaceutical Factory" was "mistakenly" blown up by Japanese planes that were "not technically qualified" but forced to carry out night air strikes.

The pharmaceutical factory here in Nanjing claims to be able to manufacture streptomycin, but in fact it can only produce artemisinin extracted from ether.

Ether itself is a flammable and explosive dangerous product. After the explosion, the factory ignited a skyrocketing fire that could be seen from more than ten miles away.

The fire extinguished itself the next day, but subsequent events continued.

Soon, DuPont proposed a huge amount of war compensation to the Japanese government, and the stock price of Gold Pharmaceuticals listed in the United States plummeted for a while.

When the DuPont family clinked their glasses to celebrate after receiving the good news that the stock price had crashed again, Emperor Yongren was so angry that he almost plucked his hair after receiving the letter of protest from the Americans.

The DuPont Lion shouted out $1000 million in damages.

In the eyes of Americans, 1000 million is really a small amount of money, but for Japan, a poor imperialist country, this amount of money is enough to buy an aircraft carrier. The Japanese government naturally refuses to admit it, and at the same time said that this is the Communist Party. What you do is to blame others.

-------------------- Chapter 254 How far is one mile? (Digital chapter) --------------------

On October [-], the Japanese army attacked outside the gate of Gaoqiao in Nanjing.

On the [-]th, Chairman Li Runshi held an international press conference at the Liuguo Hotel in Beiping, and personally accepted interviews from organizations from Western countries.During the period, the American reporter Smellett asked about the situation of the Battle of Nanjing. Chairman Li Runshi asked someone to bring pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

Countless Chinese and foreign journalists took pictures of the words on the paper.

On October [-], at the Pukou riverside wharf on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The sky was gray and hazy.

"A little further in the middle!"

A videographer waved his hand and directed the soldiers on the wooden platform in front of him to move closer to the middle. With the flash of the camera in front of him, a group photo of soldiers from a company was taken. Everyone stepped down from the stage, and the other one who was waiting on the sidelines The soldiers of the company took their place and continued to take group photos.

There are several photo locations like this.A few hundred meters away is the wharf, and on the other side of the wharf is Xiaguan, Nanjing. The soldier who had just had his photo taken boarded a small steamer and was transported to the "melting furnace" on the other side of the river.It wasn't just this ship that was crossing the river. Apart from the soldiers maintaining order standing on the bank and saluting to them, the only ones who saw off the group of soldiers going south were the singing from the high-pitched voices on the wooden frame of the pier.

"A great river with wide waves

The wind blows the scent of rice and flowers on both sides

My family lives on the shore..."

In the past two months, accompanied by the song "My Motherland", countless ships, including wooden boats, sailing boats, fishing boats, and small steamers, have continuously transported soldiers from the north bank to the south bank, and then The bodies of countless wounded and martyrs were transported back to the north bank from the south bank.

Every day from the beginning of September to the end of October.If there is a difference, it is that after late October, there were fewer planes over the Yangtze River, but more wounded and dead bodies were brought back from the south.For the soldiers who were about to cross the river, this photoshoot before crossing the river was likely to be the last photoshoot for most of them in their lives.

The remains of the martyrs brought back were buried in the newly built martyrs cemetery nearby.The American Time magazine of that month selected a group photo of soldiers and a photo of the burial in the martyr's cemetery, and put them together as a comparative cover, recording the "meat grinder" war that was taking place in Far East China.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the surname of the person in charge of transporting troops and logistics was "Gao", and he was nicknamed "Gao Mazi".

When every team of soldiers was transported to the south bank, as long as he had time, he would see them off at the pier and salute.

When each ship of martyrs is transported back and buried, he will be out of the cemetery at least one day a week.

Every week, Jiangbei will hold a large-scale collective memorial service, "sending" away 2 to [-] people, sometimes even more.

Keep digging and filling holes, and soon one mountain will be used up, and then continue to build the next cemetery.

The American reporter Snow, who was in charge of the interview, wrote in the report: "They are basically young people in their 20s. The soldiers who went south knew before they left that most of them would not be able to return - in the lyrics of the military songs they sang It has been written very clearly: after drinking this bowl of hometown wine, the strong men are gone forever. But they still have no hesitation, like moths to a flame, they jumped into the furnace and burned up as firewood."

Snow also took a group photo of the soldiers of a company and left a record. Decades later, someone made a one-to-one query based on the people in the photo.Of the [-] people shown in the photo, less than one-third survived after the Battle of Nanjing.The group of people who crossed the river earlier than them had a lower survival rate.

In his second book, "The Rise of the Eastern Dragon", Snow commented on the scene he saw at the ferry.

"During the Battle of Nanjing, countless Chinese Communist soldiers, countless young people, and ordinary soldiers were thrown into the furnace in the south like moths to the flame, and finally burned up like moths. Everyone, every The self-sacrifice and burning of life, in fact, what is released is only tiny, and can only maintain a flash of light for a moment."

"Ten people went south, six of them could never come back, three were wounded and disabled, and the remaining one might be able to come back safely. But most of the time, it was the whole ship and company that burned to the ground."

"The Yangtze River is the largest and longest river in China. It is said that its source comes from the melting snow from the snow-capped mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. At first, it was just a little bit like snot, but it was countless such little bits that gathered together, and finally merged into this river. The great rivers that cross the whole of China. Just like the formation of the Yangtze River, it is these countless moths that flicker into the flame, gather together, change from quantity to quality, and finally fuse and burn into the red sky rising in the east. Sun, illuminate this kingdom that was once shrouded in long darkness."

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Unlike the Volga in Stalingrad,

The Yangtze River flows through the Nanjing section, a few kilometers away from the Xiaguan Wharf. The center of the waterway is separated by a long and narrow island named "Jiangxinzhou", which bifurcates into two relatively narrow "fine" waterways.A few kilometers away from the northeast of Shimonoseki, there is also a "big island in the heart of the river" called "Baguazhou" (an area of ​​more than 55 square kilometers), which once again splits the Yangtze River into two tributaries.

For the defenders, the two large islands with a combined area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers are simply natural defensive barriers.Just a few artillery pieces along the river on Baguazhou can easily block the river and prevent the Japanese fleet from entering the Yangtze River to attack.And the air defense positions arranged on the two Jiangxin Islands are a nightmare for the Japanese planes who want to break into the Xiaguan Wharf every time to launch an air strike.

At the beginning of October, when the [-]th Division reached the gate of Gaoqiao, the outermost part of Nanjing, the number of planes humming non-stop over the river between Jiangxinzhou and Baguazhou nearly doubled at one point.The Japanese attacking Nanjing at most once threw five flying squadrons (about [-] aircraft) into the sky over the Yangtze River at the same time, bombarding the ships passing by the river indiscriminately.

On the opposite side, the Sino-Soviet United Air Force, in order to ensure the safety of this waterway, all forces also put all their fighter jets and air defense forces into this small area with an area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers.

Every day, downed planes fall into the river.

When the air battle was at its most intense, some Japanese warships even ventured into the waterway of the Yangtze River at the risk of hitting mines, and fired artillery from the lower reaches of Baguazhou to bombard the air defense positions on the island. ——Then as expected, a mine sank a destroyer and injured one, and then the Japanese Navy refused to perform similar support missions.

During this process, the biggest achievement the Japanese achieved was to "accidentally" blow up the most important asset of the American DuPont Company in China, the Gold Pharmaceutical Streptomycin Company. protest.

After half a month of air battles surrounding the Yangtze River waterway, the waterway between Jiangxinzhou and Baguazhou returned to relative calm at the end of October. The "imperial imperialist" Japan quickly realized a war iron rate: without the absolute advantages of performance and numbers, it is extremely stupid to fight an away air battle over the enemy's controlled area. ".

The planes of the Chinese and Soviet armies, the P24 made in Poland and the Gladiator fighters made in Britain, have a slight performance advantage over the Japanese Type 16 and Type [-] of the same period, but due to excessive use, the attendance rate is not high, and the largest number I[-] is comparable.

In terms of quality, everyone is almost the same, but the defense is covered by ground anti-aircraft artillery fire, plus the advantages of communication stations, and the simple combat goal (just concentrate on shooting aircraft) is even more advantageous.In the air battle, the Chinese and Soviet military planes bitten by the enemy plane at the six o'clock direction can always get some air defense fire support from the ground as long as they dive and run to the air defense positions of the two Jiangxin Islands.In contrast, Japanese fighter jets not only had to cover their own bombers, but also defended against ground air defense firepower. In addition, there was a serious shortage of communication stations, and they suffered a lot of tangible and intangible losses.

The Japanese army that attacked Nanjing with all its strength on land could have a casualty ratio close to one to two with its opponent, but in the air it was the opposite, and even lost twice as much as the opponent, and what was even more fatal was the Japanese pilot who was shot down. Most of the time They all faced the end of being captured or directly beaten to death on the spot by the angry ground people.When the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, they burned, killed and looted all the way, which aroused the anger of the soldiers and civilians all over China. What often happened in air battles was that the planes of both sides often shot and killed the enemy's parachute pilots in the air.

From the beginning of September to the end of October, the method of mutual injury and bloodletting has been strangling each other in the air for nearly two months. The two sides attacking Nanjing, the land, the sea, and the sea, saw that they were constantly being filled in, and then they were emptied within a few days. The aviation team almost unanimously gave up the fantasy of blocking the Yangtze River waterway by air.

In the first battlefield, aircraft were needed in the direction of northern Manchuria, and in the third battlefield, aircraft were also needed in the direction of southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. However, the losses suffered by the Japanese army in these two battlefields were not as great as the half-month air battle over Nanjing.

In terms of Army Aviation, Nagoya, Antlers, Nagasaki, etc., a total of six famous flying teams "disappeared" in the narrow area between "Jiangxinzhou-Baguazhou".Counting the aircraft of Shanghai Airlines, in less than two months, the Japanese lost nearly [-] aircraft here, and at the same time, about [-] other aircraft were scrapped or nearly scrapped after returning and landing.

The huge casualties caused the Japanese Army Aviation and Hainan Airlines on the front line to send a cry to the Tokyo Military Headquarters to stop this "stupid and inefficient" air strike.The number of aircraft losses submitted by the front line even caused Tokyo to send a special envoy to the Songhu battlefield to investigate why there were "huge losses" here.

At the same time, Japan, which was at war with China and the Soviet Union, after half a year of fighting, it was the flying troops that could not hold on first.The recruitment and training of the Japanese Air Force was originally extremely harsh, but after half a year of huge losses and bloodletting, the standard for "graduation" to pass the test has now dropped.In order to make up for the loss of pilots, many students who were expelled from the flight school for "unqualified training" were called back again, and after a little training, they were regarded as qualified products and thrown to China as cannon fodder.

.The Japanese flying team was beaten and disabled in the sky over Nanjing, and the opponent was no exception.The attack on Nanjing lasted for more than 50 days, but the intensity of the air battle declined instead. Both the attacking Japanese army and the defending Chinese and Soviet air forces were exhausted.

The heartache was not limited to the Japanese army, and finally ended the "ineffective" bombing of the Yangtze River waterway at the end of October, and hoped that Nanjing could be captured by the army alone.

Compared with the "weaker" fighting between the two sides in the air, the two sides fought more and more fiercely around the siege and defense of Nanjing.

On October [-], Jing Ming, the head of the Fourth Division who had attacked Nanjing, reported to Tokyo that his troops had seen Gaoqiaomen, the outer city wall southeast of Nanjing.

Unlike the staff officers of the Showa era where the red deer walked all over the place, due to geographical reasons, most of the Fourth Division from Osaka were from Shangsaka, and they were all brains from top to bottom.It took more than 20 days to "walk" the last hundred miles, and the Osaka Division knew from top to bottom that this battle was not easy to fight.When reporting to Hisao Nishio, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, he deliberately overstated the time, saying: They will take Takahashi Gate within a week.

"These red deer in Osaka!"

This was the mood of Hisao Nishio at the time, and he told the Tokyo headquarters that the Japanese army would capture the outer city of Nanjing within three days.

On October [-]th, the commander of the [-]th Division, Imei, stood with a dark face on the ruins of Takahashi Gate that had been completely reduced to rubble. Finally, he was able to report the victory to his commander, Hisao Nishio: Our army has completely captured Takahashi Door.

The city wall and tower of Gaoqiaomen no longer existed at this time, and there was not a single intact house within two kilometers around the commander of the division, Jing Ming.

Because the opponent voluntarily gave up the retreat, not many dead Chinese soldiers were found on the Gaoqiaomen position, but there were quite a few landmines.The Japanese army who captured here did not dare to run around, but searched and advanced very carefully.