From to 1935 2020

The reason for the retreat of the communist army was that the Matianqiao position to the southwest of Gaoqiaomen and the Cangbomen to the northeast were successively lost, making this place a dangerous isolated salient. The defenders in an extremely disadvantageous defensive position were forced to retreat.

Behind Gaoqiao Gate is Guanghua Gate, which is ten miles wide and six miles deep. It took nearly a month for the main attacking Fourth Division to break through.

When facing the Kuomintang army, the Japanese army captured mountains of differences every time they won, and captured the Communist army positions. Except for the corpses of the enemy and ourselves, there were very few things that could be used by the Japanese army, and this time was no exception.

In the positions that were voluntarily abandoned by the Red Army, except for the corpses that could not be removed in time, there were almost no complete firearms on the positions.Every inch of the land here is a strange red and black color, the red is blood, the black is fire, and the buzzing around the ears are flies flying over smelling the smell of corpses.

The Japanese army finally occupied Gaoqiaomen, and now they are "in the mood" to collect the newly added corpses on the position.There were not many corpses of the Communist army found at the scene. Whenever possible, they transported the corpses to the rear as much as possible, and then dragged them to the newly built martyrs cemetery on the other side of the Yangtze River for burial.As for the corpses of Japanese soldiers who fell on the battlefield, the Communist Party once proposed that during the tug-of-war, both sides should leave a one-hour complete ceasefire period every day for the two armies to clean up the corpses on the battlefield.

At the beginning Shijing hit general refused to agree, thinking that his troops could take Takahashi Gate within three days, but he was forced to agree after ten days—Nanjing in early October was still hot, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers piled up in front of the Red Army’s positions, Countless flies were attracted, and it soon became swollen and stinky.

Jing Ming looked around with his binoculars and counted carefully. In this area, he counted the wreckage of nearly [-] tanks—the number was fewer than what he counted yesterday. Obviously, the defensive Communist Party When the army retreated, all the tanks worth repairing were taken away.Abandoned on the battlefield are the tanks of both the enemy and us that are seriously damaged and have no repair value.

The closest T26 tank to Jingming, the turret fell to the ground and lay there in pieces. The hull was extremely damaged. It was directly hit by at least six rounds of 75 shells, and the body encountered penetrating and semi-penetrating bullet holes There were more than a dozen of them, and the car body itself suffered multiple destructive blasts by engineers, and the fragments of parts inside the car were scattered all over the place.

More than ten days ago, Jingming had seen this T217 numbered [-] from a distance through a telescope.

When the Japanese army attacked, it flowed repeatedly on this front line, acting as a mobile steel fortress, and cooperated with other ultra-light tanks (T27) to repeatedly strangle the Japanese soldiers who broke through the line of defense.When counter-charging, take the lead and rush to the forefront.During this period, countless Japanese troops were run over by its tracks.Photos of his charge have also appeared countless times in the Shanghai Concession and in the propaganda newspapers of the CCP in the north.

This tank was called "Evil Ghost Chariot" by the Japanese army attacking Takahashi Gate.The reason is that in the past 20 days, this tank has been specially thickened with armor and transformed into a "turtle shell and turtle speed" urban combat T[-] tank. It has been hit by countless shells, injured, severely damaged, and the most serious At that time, he was even interrupted by the artillery fire of the Japanese army that temporarily captured Gaoqiaomen, surrounded him on all sides, and then the engineers approached and planted explosives under the tank to blow up the last captive.

But the counterattacking Communist forces quickly regained their positions, taking back tanks that were no longer worth repairing, and continued to use them as fixed fortresses on the front line.Not long after that, it was taken away by the Japanese army, used, and then snatched back again, and so on.

In the past seven days, Jing Ming's troops have occupied Gaoqiaomen seven times, repeatedly "captured" and used this tank seven times.The turret was blown away, sandbags were placed around the gun circle, and machine guns were mounted, so it can still be used as a strong bunker.

Combat soldiers on both sides, artillery, and even tanks have repeatedly attacked this tank. The shells it suffered ranged from 75 and 76 caliber field artillery grenades to 45 and 37 caliber armor-piercing shells. Although this tank was modified for urban combat , the armor was thickened, but after being subjected to too many shells and blasting, it was finally blown into a state of fragmented waste parts.

"Will this tank be a microcosm of Nanking? Is it also the Fourth Division, or even the future fate of the empire in China?"

Jing Ming grimaced and sighed.

Before coming to China, the "Eight Horns and One Universe" had great ambitions. After 20 days of torture at the Gaoqiaomen Flesh Mill, they had already turned into all kinds of complaints and cursing about "stupid war" and "damn military red deer".Standing on the ruins of Dongzhimen, Jing Ming suddenly remembered one thing: The Battle of Nanjing was apparently driven by the Second Division's "walking alone". It is made by Nishio Shouzo.

Unlike other old devils, Hisao Nishio did not attend the local army juvenile school, nor did he attend the central army school. Instead, after graduating from Tottori middle school, he was directly admitted to the 14th period of the army non-commissioned officer school.In the eyes of Jing Ming, this person is extremely old (56 years old), and his ability is very mediocre, but his official career is very prosperous, and he was appreciated by the Minister of Army Tanaka Yoshiichi very early. "An old thing who can only blindly execute the stupid orders of the base camp" is the evaluation of him.

The current Nanjing City has three main lines of defense. After taking Gaoqiaomen, it was only a breakthrough of the first outer line of defense, and then it was the turn of the famous "Yuhuatai-Zhonghuamen-Guanghuamen-Zhongshanmen" as the main body. The second outer city defense line.After breaking through here, more terrifying urban street battles will be carried out. After the "remnants" are cleared, it is possible to drive the remnants of the defenders to the riverside.

"But now there are about [-] to [-] reinforcements every day, and they are constantly transported through the Yangtze River!"

While Jing Ming lamented in his heart, several Japanese soldiers searching the battlefield accidentally found a seriously wounded Communist soldier from a nearby pile of corpses, and then dragged him to be sent for interrogation.

Seeing this scene, Jing Ming stopped his subordinates and walked over to interrogate himself.

The wounded was shot in the chest, his body was covered in blood, his clothes were soaked in blood, he squinted his eyes, lying on the ground, looking at the group of devil soldiers surrounding him, the blood mixed with the mud on his face, he laughed at Jing Ming He spoke, revealing a mouthful of yellow dies.

Jing Ming walked over and wanted to ask something, such as whose army you are in, what is the serial number, how many people are there when you retreat, how many soldiers are there in the city...

But the moment he opened his mouth, looking at those mocking and contemptuous eyes, Jing Ming felt that it was stupid to ask anything.

"20 days!"

The other party's chapped lips moved slightly, and at the same time, his right hand opened slightly, stretched out five fingers, trembling, and uttered a few words vaguely, and the translator at the side translated his words.

Jing Ming asked, "What do you mean?"

"The superiors asked us to guard for five days, but we stayed for 20 days. You little devils, do you know how far one Chinese mile is?"

"..."

Jing Ming trembled in his heart. He had heard this sentence before he came to China. The brink was mentioned in newspapers across China.

The wounded CCP soldiers who were captured died soon due to excessive blood loss.

Jing Ming was silent for a few seconds and looked up to the north. The figure of the Guanghuamen city wall and tower was just six miles away. He looked at the Japanese offensive position in the south, which was also six miles away.

Nanjing is a riverside city surrounded by high mountains and hills. If you don't take down the surrounding hills and directly attack the main city, you will be looking for a dead end.The Japanese army, which is superior in military power, is now adopting an all-out offensive tactic, attacking Nanjing from the east, south, and west. Gaoqiao Gate is particularly eye-catching because it faces the main city.

"More than [-] imperial warriors, [-] wounded..."

This is the price paid by the 114th Division and its allies, the 20th Division, to besiege Nanjing in [-] days and push the front line forward for three miles, and this is just a corner of the wide battlefield around Nanjing.

On September 20, the "peripheral battle" of the Nanjing Defense War broke out, and when the troops approached outside the city on October [-], the frontline troops suffered more than [-] casualties within a month.After another [-] days of fighting, another [-] casualties were added.

In a normal war, the casualty-to-death ratio is usually between 3:1 and 4:1—when the U.S. military has good logistics and medical care, it can be close to [-]:[-] at its highest.However, in the battles around Nanjing, the ratio of Chinese and Japanese casualties to casualties was less than three.

The last thing the Japanese army harvested here was a pile of rubble and rotten tiles, as well as the blood-stained land.If the seeds are planted here next spring, the grain yield on the land should be very high.

How far is one mile?Probably enough for [-] dead devil soldiers and [-] wounded to form four rows together. This is the answer given by the opponent.

Jing Ming's Fourth Division now has only half of the number of troops it had before coming to China, and the first batch of "combatants" brought to China by the troops is almost exhausted.Now it depends on ten thousand "supplementary soldiers" brought in from China to prop up the cannon fodder and pretend to be "half full."In fact, his [-]th Division has been disabled, and the hospital behind Shanghai is now full of all kinds of wounded Japanese soldiers screaming.

Jing Ming had already reported to his superiors that the troops suffered heavy losses and should retreat to the rear to rest, but they were not allowed.The base camp told him that the base camp will replenish as many soldiers as you lose on the front line, but you must take Nanjing at all costs.

"Nanjing is the territory of the Kuomintang. If Nanjing falls, how much influence will it have on the Communist Party?"

In addition to its political significance, the current Nanjing has not only zero or even negative economic benefits for the Japanese army.In terms of the morale and organization of the communist army, it would be nothing but ruins after it was captured.

"Nanjing is hell, we should fight Guangzhou!"

Jing Ming really didn't want to stay here any longer, but he had no choice, because the Nanjing issue was no longer an economic benefit or a military strategic need, but now it even became a matter of national dignity and the "face" of the emperor.

"Wo Chief, do you know how far one mile is?"

On the night when Takahashi Gate fell, in a study room of Chichibu Palace, Yong Ren was in a daze looking at the flamboyant "Mao font" on the table. The "war letter" written by the world's media, but it was not handed over to Yong Ren until the last few days.

The Battle of Songhu has been fought for nearly two months, and the locust army has finally captured the key positions outside Nanjing. However, even Yongren, a military layman, can see that the situation of the Japanese army in China is extremely serious through the foreign language newspapers sent by French friends. It’s not good—that’s right, the newspapers that Yongren reads every day are not domestic newspapers like the Tokyo Times, but get outside information by reading newspapers sent by friends in the French embassy.

There is no other reason, the red deer below sent him all "fake news, fake battle reports".If it weren't for the help of friends from the French embassy, ​​he would have believed the battle report that the base camp had given him that 40 Communist troops had been wiped out outside Nanjing.

"In 20 days, 40 people were wiped out, but only the Liuhuali position was lost. Do you believe this nonsense?"

Yongren hated Empress Shijinzi beside him.He, the emperor, is getting more and more bored now.The group of red deer below, all of them were as fine as ghosts, tried their best to trick him.In the past two months, because the situation in China is getting worse and worse, and the situation in Japan is also getting worse and worse, Yongren's mood has never been better.

He growled, got angry, and slapped the table, but it didn't work.As soon as he growled in anger, the red deer below would just keep bowing and pleading guilty, but when it was time to take responsibility, each of them was smarter than the other, and there was no good minister who could really take the initiative to "share my worries".Yongren wanted to get some real news, so he had to go the French route through the queen, and rely on the information provided by friends at the French embassy in Japan to know the real situation outside.

One thing that makes Yongren "better" than the dead brother Yuren is that he was a "folk prince" who was "close to the people" before he "accidentally" ascended the throne.At that time, the people around him saw that Yuren was at the peak of his age, and that he, Yongren, was unlikely to succeed him, so they didn't have any precautions against him. There was an "information cocoon room" around Yuren, but Yongren didn't have one at that time, so they knew a lot of these upper-middle-level people. Dirty means, even after ascending the throne, there are precautions.

Runshi wrote such a "sulphurous" letter of credence in the Liuguo Hotel. Yongren, who was in the information cocoon, only knew about it with the help of his French friends, and then he got Li Runshi to give it to him. "Handwritten letter of challenge".

"That old guard guard is about to resign and throw the blame away again. What do you want to do? Do you think I don't know? The old fox of Xiyuan Temple is also pretending to be stupid all day long to fool me!"

In the past month, from Northeast China to North China and back to North China, even though the people below "worked hard" to whitewash the peace, Yong Ren knew that China's war situation was still eroding.

Needless to say, the Northeast battlefield has now become a situation of "slowly suffocating and waiting to die".After the Soviet Red Army took down Qiqihar, a large northern city, the entire periphery of Beiman, facing the natural danger of Lucia, had been completely penetrated by the Red Army. The next step was the Great Plains where Soviet tanks were allowed to attack at will.What is even more frightening is that Yang Jingyu, who occupies large cities and densely populated areas, is now more directly recruiting troops from the locals, preparing to use the winter break to train troops.Thinking of the terrible situation that the Japanese army in North Manchuria will face after the spring of next year, everyone from the Kwantung Army on the front line to Yongren himself at the top all wailed.

On the battlefield in Shandong, Tada Jun was bullying Han Fuqu, and he had a good start. After more than a month of complacency, his onslaught in the southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu areas also entered a suspension period. There are two main reasons. One is that the logistics cannot keep up. The most resources were occupied by the Northeast and Songhu, followed by the Xuzhou area in the south, which was effectively blocked by the coalition forces formed by the Red Army, the Northeast Army, and the Northwest Army.

Jun Tada attacked Shandong with only five divisions in his hands, which seemed to be quite a lot, but in reality, he could only control the big cities in Shandong and the slightly larger counties. Give up at once.Shandong is larger than Jidong. The predicament he faced in Jidong was just transferred to Shandong and magnified several times.Tada Jun drove Han Fuqu's troops away on the frontal battlefield.A large number of the Red Army who poured into Shandong from Hebei, ran around the countryside behind him to enclose the defeated army, established a base behind the enemy, and attacked Tada Hayao's logistics transport team at the same time.

The Red Army that entered the Shandong battlefield was spread out in units of regiments, and the troops under the control of Hayao Tada, with less than one battalion, were in danger of being surrounded by these Red Army and then besieged and wiped out.Tada Hayao mobilized the main force to bite back, and these regiment-based Red Army units scattered like hyenas to avoid the battle, and when they turned around, they gathered again to dig out his intestines.In the end, out of Tada Hayao's five divisions, three had to be placed in the rear to fight security warfare, and only two were on the front line to attack.

Although the area occupied by the Japanese army in Shandong is large, what they can actually control are the big cities along the railway line and the coastal areas, rural areas and even small counties. military.

It was six years ago, when a division of the Japanese army easily captured the Northeast.But six years later, the Northeast Army in front of us has also changed. With the help of the Northwest Army and the Red Army, the defense line formed by more than 20 main forces in the Xuzhou area insisted on resisting the two divisions of Jun Tada's strength and insufficient ammunition. The offensive, the war entered the "stalemate" state that Japan least wanted to see early.

Originally, according to Neiji Okamura's suggestion, the Japanese army "squeezed softly" on the Shandong battlefield.In the early stage, Hayao Tada did this (because he didn't touch a hard bone), but when he hit it, the territory became bigger and bigger, and then he encountered something that couldn't be bitten.

Tada Jun has learned the lessons of Jidong, and has been very clear about this matter. At the end of October, he saw the Communist troops entering Shandong and establishing bases everywhere in his rear, so he suggested to the base camp to shrink the entire army. Withdrew from Shandong, and took advantage of the sea route to go to Guangdong to rob." (Original text)

The characteristic of the Japanese army is that they can eat and don’t want to vomit, and the old problem of reluctance to retreat has been committed again. The red deer in the base camp calculated the income from the Shandong battlefield, and then found one thing depressingly: the Japanese offensive in Shandong, in addition to robbing In addition to a lot of food, gold and silver, and some of the arms captured by the Han Fuqu Department, the income is too small after deducting military expenses and ammunition losses, and it is far from enough to make up for the huge domestic military expenditures. Much to Japan?The five divisions of Hayao Tada were transferred from Shandong to Guangdong. The fuel consumption and depreciation of the ships alone were terrifying figures. Naturally, this suggestion was rejected.Then his five divisions are now stuck in the quagmire of Shandong, unable to advance or retreat.

As for the last battlefield in East China, the direction of Nanjing is now the focus of the whole world.The "war letter" publicly written by Li Runshi is now being hyped by the western media. The French newspaper that Yong Ren obtained from the French consul more than ten days ago has the public title: "The king's war letter to the king" .

What Li Runshi wants to do in Nanjing is known to the Japanese soldiers on the front lines, to the Yongren staff officers in the military headquarters, and even to Yongren himself. The advantages of the Japanese army are exhausted here.

Here in the Songhu battlefield, the Japanese army seemed to have the upper hand and invested a full twelve divisions to surround Nanjing. However, the predicament of Tada Jun's rear instability in Shandong also appeared in Songhu.

When the war started in the south, Su Yu's Red Army Ten established a base in southern Zhejiang.The Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, and while the Kuomintang troops on the front line were fully fled, Su Yu’s Red Army, like the Red Army in Hebei, took the opportunity to march northward to fill the space released by the other side. same thing.All the tactics of the Red Army that went deep into the enemy's rear were similar to those of the Shandong Red Army. They were all broken up into regiments, avoided the main force, and kept attacking the Japanese army's rear supply line.Open up the battlefield behind enemy lines.The Japanese army invested twelve divisions in the Songhu area, and by the end of October they had occupied all the elite areas of Songhu on the south side of the Yangtze River. Northern Zhejiang, central Zhejiang, and even Taizhou, the mouth of Suyu in southern Zhejiang, were all occupied by the Japanese army.

But the rear is still unstable, guerrillas are still breeding everywhere and blooming everywhere. The siege of Nanjing in October was fought non-stop, and the security battle in the rear was also non-stop.

Neiji Okamura's plan of "grab one ticket and go looting" was replaced by the larger Shandong quagmire and the Jiangnan quagmire under the thinking of high-level officials that "you can eat but not throw up" and that politics affects the military. And the most terrible Nanking Hell...

Yong Ren looked at the word "Wo Chieftain" written by Li Runshi that he had just obtained, and he clearly felt the disdain and contempt in the lines. Shi's face flushed red, trembling slightly because of anger, he had never been insulted like this before.

"Bag, Bag!"

The next day, Hisao Nishio, commander of the East China Dispatch Army in Shanghai, received a telegram full of anger from Yong Ren.

The content of the telegram is as follows: I don't care how difficult you are, I only want Nanjing!

Then, with a swipe of his pen, he ordered the military headquarters to send all the newly formed five divisions to Songhu within one month.

The guard old thief exclaimed:

"Your Majesty, those five divisions are newly added, and the training time is less than a month!"

Yongren stared, scolding:

"In the Northeast, didn't many divisions be disabled by the Lucians? They were withdrawn and mixed up. Veterans lead new recruits. After a few battles, they will all be veterans!"

The guard's mouth moved slightly, and he wanted to say: "The troops on the front line have been mixed like this for a long time." But he still couldn't speak, and could only answer: "The military production of the Imperial Kingdom has reached the extreme. The regiment is not equipped with even the most basic rifles."

"Didn't the United States promise to sell us 20 spring fields? Why haven't the goods arrived yet?"

"The first batch of [-] rifles has arrived, and the troops just sent to Songhu are using Chuntian."

Yongren's eyes were bloodshot, he smashed the table, and said bitterly:

"Didn't the second batch arrive at the beginning of next month? I'll send them to Songhu as soon as I get the guns! Okamura said that twelve to fifteen divisions are needed to take Nanjing, and there are only twelve now. Five more for you! Seventeen divisions, before the new year, take Nanjing for me!"

Next to him, Terauchi Shouichi, Hayashi Mijuro and other high-ranking army officers, looked at me and looked at you, but they didn't say what they wanted to say in the end.

This kind of training was brought to the battlefield in less than a month, and the number of artillery and machine gun equipment was extremely reduced for troops with insufficient guns. According to the standard of the Japanese army, it could not even be counted as a C-type division, but only a "D" type. division.......

After the news came out, Neiji Okamura, who took the initiative to sit on the bench in the reserve force, said bitterly to Toshishiro Obata:

"If this continues, at most until the second half of next year, the Empire will be completely defeated in China!"

Toshishiro Obata sarcastically said:

"Isn't that exactly what you want to see? You're betting on a war in Europe! Okamura-kun, you're better at betting than Yamamoto!"

Okamura was dissatisfied and said: "Is there a way out if you don't bet on the imperial kingdom?"

Make up for what I didn't post yesterday.

-------------------- Chapter 255 Mi Mi's Voice --------------------

When Emperor Yongren was directly punched in the face by Li Runshi, he was stimulated by a "King to King" sticker, and he recklessly issued "random orders" and asked the East China Dispatch Army to take the main city of Nanjing as soon as possible. Almost all of the division heads are scolding mothers.

Without him, since the Communist Party accepted the defense of the Nanjing area, in the past forty days of offensive and defensive battles, the casualties of the Japanese army were too miserable.

The strongest second and fourth full-staffed Type A main divisions broke through forty days, and then experienced two large-scale replenishment of troops. The full-strength rate of the troops was only [-]%.Whether it is Yasui Toji or Imei, the rate of recruits in the "combat soldiers" under the two men's command is as high as [-]%!And these [-]% of the recruits are basically rookies who have only trained for three months.This is the case for the two first-class divisions that have been replenished first, but the situation of the remaining second-class divisions and third-class divisions is even worse.

Ando Iji once complained to his superiors like this: During the 10,000-day battle, our East China Dispatch Army killed at least three 15+ communist troops (referring to casualties) in Songhu, but we also lost 21 people!The first seven divisions that participated in the battle were all disabled!Forty days ago, we rushed to the outskirts of Nanjing with 20 people in seven divisions.Now that we have attacked the main city of Nanjing, there are twelve divisions on the surface, but in fact the total strength in Songhu is less than [-], and the quality of the soldiers cannot be compared with that of forty days ago.

Relying on his status as the commander of the first-class division, Ando Iji skipped the "long-distance commander" Hisao Nishio, who he regarded as an "old waste", and directly called the report to the Tokyo headquarters. of: