From to 1935 2020

"In the past 10,000 days, we have killed 40+ communist troops and other warlord troops in a mess, but Li Runshi has pulled 20 people across the river from the north bank of the Yangtze River! Now there are at least 20 people in Nanjing and outside the city And of the other [-] people, at least half of them are entering through Jiangxi, from southern Jiangxi to southern Zhejiang, joining the Suyu Red Army, and attacking our army from the south!"

(Note: In fact, the Japanese army is estimating the specific strength and loss data of the Red Army during this period, and the errors are not small)

In private, on November [-], Iji Ando came to the south of Nanjing, and when he and Jing Ming, the commander of the third division, observed the Zhonghua Gate and the Yuhuatai Highland near Guanghua Gate with a telescope, the two first-class divisions The long ones gasped together, and they both cried out.

"What did the Communist Party do during these forty days!"

Why?

Yuhuatai is a beautiful hill surrounded by pines and cypresses, about 100 meters high and 3.5 kilometers long.The height is not high, but whether it was the Chang Kaishen era or the later Chen Jitang era, due to the need to "defend Nanjing", solid fortifications were built on this hill that is only [-] meters high.

If we say that the fortifications in the Chang and Chen periods were just "shoddy and semi-tofu dregs projects" with the characteristics of "Chinese warlords", in the era of Li Runshi, the fortifications of Yuhuatai can be described as "crazy".

"Dig, dig, dig"!

In the past forty days, the Communist Party mobilized countless manpower to dig everywhere on the Yuhuatai, like rats digging holes, and dug countless tunnels on the [-]-meter-high Yuhuatai, which are close to the level of the Korean War Volunteers. Soldiers, mounted cannons, and covered the surrounding area with landmines, and even stretched barbed wire at a few key points-in terms of digging tunnels, the Red Army has experience in building tunnels in Taiyuan. The defense of Nanjing brought a large number of miners from Shanxi Called, and even used a pickaxe.

No matter it is Ando Iji or I Ming, after a few glances, the first thing that comes to mind is Lushun 203 Heights mentioned repeatedly in the textbooks when they were studying in the military academy, the eternal nightmare of the locust army!

"At least one more division must die before it is possible to win this highland! The premise is that we have to cut off its connection with the Zhonghuamen Communist Army!"

As for the connection between Yuhuatai and Zhonghuamen, in the binoculars, the two division heads saw a large number of tanks.

When it comes to tanks, whether it is the Japanese army in Northeast China or East China, they are all in tears.

During World War II, the army's best weapon against tanks was tanks, but the East China Dispatch Army didn't have a decent tank in hand.

The Maozi T60 tank was put in Spain and was knocked out by 60 stepping stones. When it was taken to the Far East, it was improved and thickened, but it became a domineering uncle in kindergarten. Knocker.As for the heavy armored position breakthrough "light tank" T[-] that was designed temporarily, the Soviet version of Matilda is even more of a nightmare for the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery and infantry - in the defense of Nanjing, the T[-] The most favorite thing for the communist tank soldiers who use flowers is to weld a circle of more than a dozen rounds of anti-infantry mines around the body and turret of this tank, and then drive the car to the Japanese attacking team when the Japanese army breaks through the position Rushing and smashing, detonating the jumping mines on his body while charging, his frenzy reached the extreme.

The T60 has thick leather armor, and its main weapon is a 20mm autocannon. There is no external fragile observation mirror, so it can play this kind of rogue tactics close to "self-destructing tanks" at will.Often a wave of several T60 tanks rushing, crushing and exploding on the Japanese offensive position can blow up the offensive that the Japanese army had finally organized and drive them back to the original place.

After these two tanks become super iron turtles, their mobility is actually the same shit, but they are all defending and counterattacking. They only need to travel a few kilometers, and the logistics department can desperately weld new armor on the body. The result of "the tortoise on the tortoise" was that the Japanese anti-tank guns sang "I am the door knocker" sadly in unison.

Whether in Northeast China or East China, in order to deal with these Soviet-made iron turtles, the Japanese army had to use a large number of "human bombs" to fight against steel.On the East China battlefield, when the communist army assigned tanks to infantry for defensive warfare, they turned tanks into mobile fortresses on the defense line and "firefighters" on the battlefield. The flexible defensive tactics they developed made the Japanese army, which lacked powerful battle tanks, vomit three liters of blood. .

On the Songhu battlefield in East China, the Japanese army also invested more than 100 tanks. After the painful lessons of the Northeast and North China battlefields, the tanks currently participating in the East China battlefield, even bean tanks, forced a 37mm grenade The small cannon is sufficient, and it barely has a little anti-tank capability.But in the face of T26 and T60, as well as the 12.7 anti-tank guns that are everywhere, and the SU27 and Su37 modified from the chassis of T37 and T45, tears are still harvested.

The communist army showed confidence. The Japanese infantry gave them headaches, but they were not afraid of the Japanese tanks at all. They joked that they were "the most eye-catching Japanese soldiers outside Nanjing."

Ando Iji and Imei sent telegrams to the base camp more than once, crying for the most advanced 26 Qiha tanks that can fight against the T97, but the East China Dispatch Army is in the heart of the base camp that the stepmother raised Ximen Qingsheng next door, The Kwantung Army that defends the lifeline of Manchuria and Mongolia is the real son. All the newly built 60 Qiha tanks in China were sent to the northeast to fill the bottomless pit. Equipped with a small howitzer with an armor-piercing capability of about a dozen millimeters, they faced the T[-], "Turtle Shell Little Overlord T[-]", and the SU[-]\SU[-] of "the domineering uncle in the kindergarten", and burst into tears. , sing "I'm a fish", and let others slaughter.

Without approaching, they heard the sound of the tank engine starting behind the Zhonghuamen Communist Army's defense line from a distance. The two division heads looked at each other, and tacitly thought of passive slack in their hearts.

It wasn't that they were afraid of fighting, it was that the two families had suffered heavy losses in the first [-] days of fighting, and their subordinates had no fighting spirit, so they really needed to retreat and rest.

"Give me four hundred cannons, two hundred 97 Qiha tanks, and enough shells, and I will attack Yuhuatai, otherwise hands-free!"

The fourth division from Osaka, the biggest advantage is that it sees a pit in front of it, that is, it will not jump to death.The so-called mouse feces ruined a pot of porridge. The Osaka division took the lead, and the Sendai division (referring to the second division) followed closely. After colluding in series, the heads of the seven divisions at the forefront of Nanjing joined forces to complain to the rear, and they just stood still.

At present, the Japanese army has only 10 troops on the front line in Nanjing. If they are short of ammunition and troops, they have already repaired a solid position to attack. They have good fighting will and good equipment. People and people from Sendai said one after another: We are not ghosts and beasts, we are not so stubborn.

On November [-], there was no war in Nanjing.

On the second day, there was no war.

Three days, four days, five, six, seven, eight days, there is still no war.

Commander Nishio Hisao, who was far away in Shanghai, took the order of Emperor Yongren and asked the red deer to move forward bravely, but the frontline troops disobeyed orders in various ways, and were stunned to command.The reasons for the disobedience of the red deer in front are very sufficient and true: lack of shells, serious damage to soldiers, exhausted soldiers, serious damage to firearms, serious shortage of tanks and no anti-armor capabilities... shells are not Enough is enough, and the troops are not enough. You Nishio Hisao, you can't force the warriors of the imperial kingdom to rush into the minefields that the opponent has prepared for a long time, can you?

When Hisao Nishio gritted his teeth with hatred for the group of disobedient red deer below but was helpless, the defenders of Yuhuatai unexpectedly ushered in a rest period before the fierce battle.

Li Danian, who participated in the Battle of Tongzhou, is now the head of the regiment, and his troops are now stationed on Yuhuatai.

After the Battle of Tongzhou, the injured Li Danian was transferred to Anhui, Jiangbei, and joined Guo Rugui's troops as an "experience exchange". .

The task assigned to them by their superiors was to block the Japanese army on the periphery for 20 days, so as to buy time for the follow-up troops to deploy troops and repair the outer city defense line.

In the forty days, the Red Army that went south to participate in the war suffered a total of more than 30 casualties, and half of the losses actually occurred in the first 20 days.

At that time, the Japanese army's main attacking third and fourth divisions were all elite soldiers in full condition, and they had gained a wave of experience from the Kuomintang army in the early stage.

For Li Danian, during these 20 days, the most tragic battle was not the last 20 days, but the most painful blocking battle in the first [-] days.

In 20 days, Li Danian, who was still the battalion commander, replenished his troops four times and was disabled four times. One, the head of the regiment died, the political commissar died, the instructor died, the deputy died, and the guard also died. Only he survived because of his "luck".

His superiors replenished his troops for the fifth time. Of the [-] soldiers under his command, one-fifth were veterans put together from other troops, while the rest were recruits transported from Jiangbei.

When he first went south with him, the "troops" trained by Guo Rugui, who used to pay for both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, were disabled long ago, and less than one-third of them returned to Jiangbei as wounded and survived. On the south bank of the Yangtze River, there are less than one out of ten.Li Danian counted his subordinates: there are only thirteen people from the old army, including himself.

The newly arrived young political commissar sighed and said: "One belt five, almost all are recruits who have only been trained for four or five months."

Li Danian smoked a cigarette and said with a stiff smile: "The little devils on the other side are recruits who have only trained for two or three months. They are worse than us!"

Li Danian fought the defense of Gaoqiaomen. In his words: Compared with the plain river blocking battle on the outer periphery, the devils on the opposite side were obviously much weaker, and the guns and cannons were not as good as before. Accurate and poisonous.

In fact, Gaoqiaomen can still be defended if it wants to continue to stick to it, but the superiors feel that after 20 days of fighting here, there is no geographical advantage, and the defense line of Yuhuatai has been repaired, so they voluntarily give up.

After November, because the Japanese troops on the front line were passively avoiding the battle, here at the Yuhuatai line of defense, the two armies just fought each other coldly. "We are still at war." In fact, large-scale fighting has completely ceased.

The Japanese army, which was seriously short of ammunition and personnel, was waiting for domestic reinforcements to arrive to fill the pits for them, while the defenders of Li Danian Yuhuatai took the time to "lead the old soldiers with the new soldiers" in the tunnels and positions, and pass on their combat experience.

In the city, Peng Shichuan, the supreme commander of Nanjing's defensive warfare, said to Zeng Zhongsheng, the political commissar: "The most difficult days are over. It took Nishio Shouzao [-] days to break through the first place in Nanjing's outer city by deliberately releasing water." If there is no line of defense, he has already lost!

In the last few days at the end of October, the reports from all over the front line were: the artillery fire density of the attacking Japanese army was weakening, the quality of soldiers was deteriorating, the artillery fire was less, and the marksmanship was inaccurate. There were a large number of captured Japanese weapons. Springfield rifle.On October 25th, the frontline troops accidentally captured several Japanese deserters, which was unimaginable in the past.

After interrogation, it was learned that they were all recruits who were thrown to Nanjing as cannon fodder after less than three months of training.And through interrogation, Peng Shichuan has fully determined that not only the Japanese army on the front line in Songhu, but even the mobilization force in Japan has reached the limit of its exhaustion.

The Conservative War in Nanjing had reached this point, and Peng Shichuan himself had suffered heavy losses. Nishio Shouzao reported to Yongren that he had wiped out more than [-] Red Army troops, which was an exaggeration.However, according to the reported data obtained by Peng Shichuan from Gao Mazi and Su Yu, the Red Army has lost more than [-] troops around Nanjing in the past [-] days. Loss.

The number of soldiers killed in battle exceeded 11 at least!More than [-] people were injured, and almost all the veterans transferred from the north were wiped out.Like the panting Japanese army on the opposite side, Peng Shichuanbu was also at the end of its strength: the number of shells fired every day was also decreasing sharply.Su Yu's Red Army, which is currently harassing the supply line behind the Japanese army in Songhu, has now resumed the normal state of using a large number of "rhubarb crossbows" to launch stinking dung bombs. The reason is also that there are insufficient high explosives in their hands.

Lacking a sufficient industrial base, whether it was the Japanese army or the Communist army, after the war entered the second stage, both sides changed from "competition" to "competition".

Peng Shichuan understood that Japan and the Red Army fought a "bad" battle, and that was simply asking for their own death.In his telegram to Chairman Lee Yoon-seok, he put forward the strategic policy of "closing the door and beating the dog" in the next stage of the campaign.

The specific method is to deliberately give up some lines of defense, so that the Japanese army can achieve a "breakthrough" on a local battlefield, bring them in, introduce them into the inner city of Nanjing, and then continue to fight street battles and bad battles in the city, entangle it, stick to it, and wear it down. kill them.

Chairman Li Runshi approved Peng Shichuan's tactical idea, but he did not expect that the Japanese troops on the front line were also losing their fighting spirit at this time and playing passive warfare.At this time, the intelligence agency of the Soviet Union stationed in Japan sent news that after Yongren received Li Runshi's "war letter", he was deeply humiliated and had forced the country to transfer the five newly recruited divisions to Songhu to participate in the war .

"Those are five pure recruit divisions that have been trained for less than a month, and the weapons they use are still Springfields!"

After Li Runshi forwarded this information to Peng Shichuan, General Peng and Zeng Zhongsheng laughed at each other, and the Japanese chief really had no more soldiers to use.

In early November, outside Yuhuatai, the "fake fight" war between the Fourth Division and the defenders continued.

Every day, the [-]th Division fires hundreds of rounds symbolically at the Yuhuatai Red Army positions in the morning, noon, and evening. Fetid Landmines".

The Red Army, on the other hand, touched it at night and used the rhubarb crossbow to fire a bunch of stinky shit bombs at the forward position facing the Japanese army to disgust the opponent and retaliate.Now that the war has been fought, with the improvement and improvement of the technological level, some of the "standard" dung bombs produced in the rear of the Red Army have also invented the black powder air-ignited, two-stage booster version with a maximum range of [-] Yu Mi——Of course, hits depend entirely on faith, which is basically a thing to harass disgusting people.For half a month, the two armies have been engaged in this kind of "significant" mutual harm.The biggest loss between the two parties is the cold guns made by each other

Peng Shichuan in Nanjing City likes this kind of bad battle the most, because the Japanese army can't take advantage of it.

Compared with the cold guns and stinky dung bombs of the communist army on the opposite side, Jing Ming who is confronting him, the real headache is not the bullets and shells of the opponent, but the hidden positions of Yuhuatai. Non-stop tweeter, Japanese radio.

The Communist Party on the opposite side has found several "non-national" Japanese traitors, and whenever they have the opportunity, they will conduct various propaganda against the Japanese army there.

If it's just an "old-fashioned" anti-war broadcast, it's fine. The problem is that the gang of Japanese traitors and non-citizens on the opposite side don't know where to find masters, and the content of the broadcast is updated every day.In addition to the traditional "communist" anti-emperor, anti-chaebol, and anti-war propaganda, there are also a lot of literacy and class analysis of Japanese history. The content is all the information in Huang Ke's famous book "Meiji Restoration 68 Years Festival".

Boring, bloody, and endless wars are tiresome.There was no more fighting, and it was hard to take a rest. As soon as they took a break, the troops below would lose their temper. Once they were relieved, militarism was crazy, and the general soldiers would not take it seriously——this group of trainers There is only three months for recruits, and there is no time to be brainwashed by the people above. When they go to the battlefield, the shells explode, the mines sound, and they see intestines flying all over the sky. In fact, they are afraid that they will become deserters.In fact, not many people in the Fourth Division really wanted to join the new Flesh Mill in front of them.

During passive combat and waiting for reinforcements, the fourth division and regiment listened to the "Pingshu Broadcasting" on the opposite side with "relish". Every Japanese soldier who participated in the war knew about Japan's modern history within ten days. Li rose a lot.

What makes Jing Ming want to vomit blood even more is that, apart from storytelling, what his subordinates especially like to listen to is the various "sounds of humming" coming from the loudspeaker opposite.

The communist propagandist on the opposite side got a bunch of Japanese songs from somewhere, and played them to the Japanese army positions all day long.

At seven o'clock in the morning, at dawn, the Japanese soldiers got up to eat, and the Communist Party loudspeaker on the opposite side began to play "Song of the Showa Restoration" as the wake-up song for the Japanese troops on the opposite side. In standard Japanese, hum the sentence "江罗(べきら)の渕(ふち)に波騒ぎ".

"Misakami, a non-citizen, a national thief, deserves death!" (the author of this song)

At breakfast, I served "Thousand Cherry Blossoms" for dinner.Before listening to "The 60th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration" at noon, listen to such things as "Wangxiang" and "Dawn of the Car".After dark at night, there are all kinds of songs, and there are all kinds of things.

"桜の木になろう", "Tomorrow, Servant は Junに会いに行", "空も飞べるはず", all kinds of love and love, were scolded by Jing Ming as the love songs of "the sound of Mi Mi" It was a song that was refurbished in different ways one after another, but it was still very pleasant to listen to, so that the "army horse manure" who smelled the smell of dung bombs here secretly asked who was singing it.

Not only Yuhuatai, during the confrontation, similar voices echoed in all the confrontation positions between the Red Army and the Japanese army in the east, west, and south directions of Nanjing.

These song tapes were all recorded in the Soviet Union. The original creator (plagiarist) Xiao Huang Ke plagiarized the 21st century classics. The singer was Elena, and the accompaniment was a music master of the Soviet Moscow Song and Dance Troupe. Leverage.

After broadcasting for half a month, the commanders of several Japanese divisions confronting the front line found that the morale of their men was devastated. On November [-]th, with the arrival of reinforcements from the two local divisions, they dismantled and supplemented the various units on the front line. The Nanjing frontline divisions, which had been passively avoiding the battle in the early stage, finally launched a fierce offensive on this day after hoarding enough shells.

Two days later, Guanghuamen and Zhongshanmen fell successively, and the Japanese army "easily" invaded the city of Nanjing.But the Zhonghua Gate, which is close to Yuhuatai, has never moved——Yuhuatai has always been in the hands of the Red Army.

Yongren, who was far away in Tokyo, was overjoyed to receive the victory from the front line.

Well Ming and Ando, ​​who were at the forefront, looked behind the city wall at this time, and they had already prepared the barricades, forts, and tank forts swimming in the street, and their scalps were numb at the same time. ....

Both of them knew it well.

"The Communist Party deliberately abandoned these two city gates!"

At the same time, Peng Shichuan said to Zeng Zhongsheng: "The door has been opened, and the dogs have been let in. Find a way to let them enter a little deeper!"

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On November [-], after the Japanese army entered the main city of Nanjing from the direction of Zhongshan Gate, they used this as a breakthrough point to launch a fierce attack in other directions in the city, hoping to take the opportunity to expand the breakthrough area, and fierce urban street fighting began.

The Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, which broke through the Zhongshan Gate, withdrew from Nanjing on the 14th and retreated to the rear to "rest and reorganize."Two days later, the Second Division, which also suffered heavy losses in the early battle, also retreated.

In the history of World War II, until the end, among the first seventeen first-class divisions of the Japanese army, only the Unity Division of the Fourth Division can be said to be relatively the best.Without him, because of Osaka's excellent "commercial tradition", the [-]th Division has long since developed a "non-head iron" and "fighting with the brain" from top to bottom. Set disobedience never knew it was a pit and jumped down.

After easily breaking through the Zhongshan Gate, Jing Ming, the head of the Fourth Division, could smell something was wrong at that time, and after seeing the densely built fortifications behind the city gate, and looking at the direction of Zijin Mountain to the east of Zhongshan Gate, there was still nothing wrong. Under the siege of the Japanese army on the mountain-like Communist position, Jing Ming immediately understood: the other party did it on purpose.

"The Battle of Nanjing has reached this level, the Empire has already lost!"

In private, I Ming sighed to a group of his subordinates from Osaka, what attracted was not the clamor of "Tianzhu country thief", but the nodding of his subordinates in unison with a mournful sympathy.

Fuji Hydra, an Osaka guy on the ground.

We Osaka people have always judged the situation, and we are absolutely not head-to-head.

So, in the next two days, all the members of the Fourth Division cried miserably to their superiors and strongly demanded to retreat and rest. The loss report reported to the superiors for breaking the Zhongshan Gate was artificially added a zero.

During this period, the East China Front Army Xiwei Temple, because of the ineffectiveness of the Nanjing campaign and poor execution, especially in the first half of November, the miraculous "sit-in war" finally came to light. Xiwei Temple was dismissed and transferred back to Tokyo. A new commander, Matsui Iwane, takes over.

As a nearly 60-year-old devil, Matsui Iwane was sent to Songhu. In fact, he was forced to come here by pushing the ducks into the sedan chair.When he came to Songhu, he was accompanied by the "new force" (recruitment) Guizi soldiers who had just been recruited in China, a total of five divisions and 12 people.It seems that the number is huge, but in fact, [-]% of them are rookies.

The new commander took office, and the first to participate in the war, the heads of the seven divisions who had fought a bloody battle around Nanjing for three months, collectively put pressure on Matsui Iwane to withdraw and replace the defense and reorganization-this happened to the Fourth Division Take the lead.

The heads of the seven divisions each took the casualty data of their own troops for the past three months and cried miserably in front of Matsui Iwane. The seven division heads joined forces, and Matsui Iwane couldn't be suppressed. The troops of Su Yu's Red Army fighting the security war were transferred to the front line of Nanjing, while most of the seven divisions attacking Nanjing in the front, except for leaving behind heavy weapons, withdrew to the rear.

The Nanjing offensive and defensive battle in the last ten days of November was actually not as intense as imagined. The Japanese army was busy changing defenses and adjusting, and their desire to attack was not strong. The Red Army was slowly accumulating counterattack forces and ammunition, and adjusted the army layout. , while waiting for the Japanese army to go deeper in order to close the door and fight dogs.

In this "not fierce" battle, Matsui Iwane adopted a very strange tactic without taking Zijin Mountain: leaving a division to monitor the Red Army in the direction of Zijin Mountain, and the rest attacked from Zhongshan Gate The Japanese army launched an attack in three directions: west, north, and south, using Zhongshan Gate as a breakthrough.

The purpose of the southward attack was to cooperate with the Japanese army in the direction of Yuhuatai to attack back and forth and capture Guanghuamen.

The westward attack is to seize the Zhonghua Gate from the east side of the interior.Attacking north is naturally aimed at reaching the Yangtze River.