From to 1935 2020

In the report sent to Germany by Schulz, the night battle in Nanjing City was evaluated as: the eastern version of the last trench warfare on the western front, which was backward in "technological content" but full of blood.

After dawn, Major Schulz, who continued to watch the battle, did not dare to lie on the roof of the building arrogantly like at night, but stayed honestly in the room on the top floor, opened the window close to the battlefield, drew the curtains, and looked through a Watch the battle closely.

The reason for being so cautious is that Nanjing during the day has turned into a hell where death is rampant.Even if you are watching the battle from the roof, you may be targeted by snipers.

Not only the infantry of the Chinese and Japanese armies are constantly engaged in a war of attrition that treats human beings as firewood, but even the tankers hiding in the "Turtle on top of the turtle" are also likely to be killed by a single shot at any time , and then the risk of being bombarded as meat paste.

The night battle in Nanjing City was regarded as "backward" by Schultz, but the battlefield that took place in the city during the day made him look at it differently.

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In [-], the Three Kingdoms War between China, Japan and the Soviet Union, for the Japanese army, the biggest military benefit was to enhance the Japanese army’s anti-armor awareness.

Improving the lethality of the existing anti-tank units has long been a major issue that the Japanese army has attached great importance to.

When the war reached the last month of [-], on the Nanjing battlefield, the Japanese army finally had a few decent anti-tank weapons.

After the Type 94 37mm anti-tank gun of the Japanese army became a knocker, after learning from the pain, the superiors were finally able to make up their minds and developed a professional cap-piercing bullet.Some of the T26 tanks lost by the Red Army at Gaoqiaomen in the Battle of Nanjing were destroyed by anti-tank guns with replaced shells at close range.

The bigger progress is that they imported a large number of 47mm Bailu anti-tank guns from Italy at a cost of foreign exchange. Not only did they import them, but they also began to try to imitate them—this gun was exactly the same model that Huang Ke bought from Italy.The Japanese army first came into contact with the gun, which was captured from the Anti-Alliance in the Northeast.This gun is currently the largest anti-tank gun with the largest "caliber" in Europe except the Soviet Union.

When the Battle of Nanjing entered the stage of street fighting, Kenji Doihara obtained 32 guns from the military headquarters. Not only that, after facing the strong threat of Soviet tanks, the Japanese army also generally required that the field guns and mountain guns in the artillery of the entire army must have a certain quality. anti-tank capabilities.

During the war, the Japanese army also summed up a lot of experience at this time in order to deal with the "domineering uncle in the kindergarten" and "the turtle on the turtle".

The most disgusting thing about urban street fighting is that this is a world of cold guns and cold wars. The density of enemy troops is high, and there are natural battlefields for ambushes everywhere.

People will be shot coldly, and tanks with bigger targets will be shot coldly.

In fact, during the Battle of Gaoqiaomen, the Japanese army had experience in this regard: before the attack, some 37 battle anti-aircraft guns and even 75 field guns with a longer range and more powerful power were secretly arranged at the front of the position, hidden, and the infantry attacked to break through the Red Army. The line of defense, when the Red Army drove out the tanks to counter-attack, these artillery fired directly to destroy them.The T26 tank lost at Gaoqiaomen was destroyed in this way.

However, in the street fighting in Nanjing, the distance between the warring parties is shorter, and the surrounding environment is more suitable for concealment.Contrary to the infantry who fought more and more smoothly in Nanjing, the tank troops gradually began to restrain themselves.

-------------------- Chapter 258 The Battle of Duzi -------------------

"This is the T26 urban street fighting tank developed by the Communist Army?"

Lying on the roof of the Siemens building near the Xiaguan Wharf, Major Schulz observed the T26 tank coming out of the temporary tank repair yard nearby with a telescope.

This tank was transported by boat from the north bank of the Yangtze River to the south bank on the evening of December 12th. At that time, five T20 tanks were sent over, and they were sent to the maintenance station for temporary modification that night.Xiaguan Wharf has several ten-ton cranes, and it is one of the few wharves that can directly lift tanks and heavy equipment. , the arc flashes in the maintenance station kept flashing non-stop. In the evening of the next day, Schultz saw the first T[-] that had completed the modification of "urban special warfare" and slowly drove out of the maintenance station at the speed of a turtle. stand.

The total combat weight of the T26 tank is 10.5 tons. After modification, the weight soared to as much as 14 tons.He originally had a maximum speed of only 30 kilometers per hour, but now his maximum speed has dropped to 20 kilometers.The tank that Schultz saw from the binoculars was plastered, welded, screwed, or directly tied with iron chains and welded indiscriminately. Armor plates, track shoes and even wrecked tank wheels for added protection.

"The surface of this tank is like the bottom of a ship that has traveled thousands of miles in the sea. It is covered with all kinds of steel attachments - they don't expect this tank to be pulled back at all. They are going to put it on the front line to fight it. Are you dead?"

Schultz could tell at a glance that this tank was definitely "overloaded and overweight". If it couldn't drive forty kilometers, the chassis suspension would be damaged due to overload.But now in the city of Nanjing, there is no tank that can walk forty kilometers in battle and still be safe and sound.

When the tank drove out of the refitting factory, Schultz noticed a detail, a set of white number "217" was newly painted on the rear of the turret.The reason why it is painted on the rear of the turret is because two ugly tank wheels are also welded on the side of the turret as additional armor-there is a lack of ready-made armor plates. The Red Army logistics personnel now use scraps recovered from the battlefield All kinds of debris removed from the tank were used as protection.These temporary additional armors will basically fall off if they are hit by a shell at random, but for the crew members, it is always good to have an extra shot.

The tank numbered 217 was once the star tank in the Nanjing Defense War in the early stage, but it was destroyed a month ago, but the Chinese Communist Army still retained the number of this type of tank and used it on new vehicles.

"The crew members should be veterans who have experienced many battles. I really want to share with him the experience of using tanks."

Sighing, Schultz watched the tank dressed up like a "beggar's car" "climb" for several kilometers at the speed of a tortoise, and then entered the battlefield ahead.

On the 217 tank, before closing the hatch, the commander Wu Mingjie glanced at the photo in his hand, and then carefully put it in his arms and put it away.

The photo is a group photo of 24 tank soldiers, but now only half of the people in the photo are still alive, and half of the living people are in the hospital. Most of them were lost in the defense of Nanjing.

In the melting pot city of Nanjing, there is no invincible and immortal weapon. The good days of "the domineering uncle in the kindergarten", with the improvement of the Japanese anti-armor weapons and tactics, the life in Nanjing in the past month is actually not easy.

Street fighting is absolutely inseparable from the support of tanks, but tanks must be at a disadvantage in street fighting, whether it is defense or offense.

The crew members of the real No. 217 tank have all died long ago. Wu Mingjie’s original tank number was No. 216, which was his friend’s car. However, his tank was also damaged and abandoned during the Nanjing Defense War. Four crew members died and two were injured. Only he was very lucky, and only suffered a slight vibration injury when the hull was broken. After only three days of rest on the north bank of the Yangtze River, he returned to the battlefield after receiving new tanks and members.

The 217 tank is now one of the symbols of defending Nanjing. Wu Mingjie, with the new crew, did not "take a good rest" in Jiangbei, and all his energy was used to familiarize himself with the new tank.

It is also a T26, but this T26 is slightly different from the previous T26. Its gun is not a 45mm anti-tank gun produced by the Soviet Union, but a specially developed one by Taiyuan Arsenal according to the turret structure of the T26 tank under the guidance of Soviet experts. The short-barreled 75mm light howitzer - the prototype of the artillery refers to the 75mm mountain gun and the Type [-] light infantry gun, and the number of shells on board has also been drastically reduced to [-] rounds.

Compared with the 45mm anti-tank gun, the anti-tank capability of the vehicle has dropped a lot, but the anti-infantry capability has been greatly enhanced. It is the standard urban combat special warfare type.During this period of time, the Red Army transformed [-] similar tanks, and all of them were put into the Nanjing battlefield.

Taking advantage of the time difference before dark, Wu Mingjie commanded the tank to drive into the front line of the city. This new tank uses an original 91-horsepower gasoline engine made in the Soviet Union, which is not as powerful as his last one, No. 216, which was modified with a Swiss diesel engine. chariot.Compared with diesel engines, gasoline engines are not safe enough, but their advantages are that they start quickly, and more importantly, they are much quieter.This is important when sneaking into an ambush position at night.

After Hikenji Tuhara took over the offensive and defensive battle of Nanjing, the Japanese army besieged Nanjing City, including Yuhuatai, Zijin Mountain and other peripheral positions outside the city. The total number of divisions has reached ten.Kenji Doihara divided these ten divisions into batches and continued to attack.

In the direction of the outer city of Nanjing, the situation in Yuhuatai is the most critical. With the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese army in the west has broken through the defense line of Tiexin Town-Niu Shoushan-Banqiao Town, and directly attacked Yuhuatai from another direction. In addition, the Japanese army attacking from the southeast , and the Japanese army that is attacking from the city to Zhonghuamen, the Yuhuatai-Zhonghuamen defense line, is being continuously besieged by the Japanese army in three directions and three divisions. Fortunately, the position in the north direction is still firmly controlled by the Red Army. The connection with Zhonghuamen has not been cut off by the Japanese army - the current focus of contention between the two armies on the battlefield is not only Yuhuatai itself, but also the military positions connected to Zhonghuamen.

However, Wu Mingjie's mission was not to support the defenders in the direction of Yuhuatai, but to go south to defend the former Nanjing Chairman's Mansion, which is the nominal Nanjing City Defense Command.

On November [-], after the Japanese army broke through the Zhongshan Gate, its forward troops were still [-] kilometers away.

It is now December 21, and the Japanese army is still one and a half kilometers away.

Wu Mingjie commanded the tank and drove into the destination before dark—the former Heavenly King's Mansion, the Chairman's Mansion, and the "ruins" of the Nanjing City Defense Command—here had long since been bombarded by the Japanese army and turned into a ruined area. The buildings were reduced to rubble all over the ground, and the things that could be burned had long been burned up in the flames of war.The original signature marble gate was reduced to rubble on the ground in the flames of war, and only the word "Nanjing" still remains.

After a month of street fighting in the inner city of Nanjing, the elite combat soldiers of the No.14 Division brought by Kenji Doihara were also exhausted in the long war of attrition.The last distance of [-] kilometers was hard to break through.

When Wu Mingjie drove the tank over, the two armies on the front line were still fighting to the death before dusk.As the tank drove past, mortar shells from a distance fell from the surrounding area from time to time.

In the brutal street battles in Nanjing City, tanks were the priority targets for both sides to destroy.Different from the famous Stalingrad in history, the buildings in Nanjing are generally one-story one-story houses with brick and wood structures. The ruins of the buildings are not high enough to cover the tanks.The observation post set up by the Japanese army at a relatively high place can easily see the traces of tanks approaching from a distance.

When Wu Mingjie commanded the tank to drive to about a kilometer behind the defense line of his own position, the trace of his tank was already noticed by the Japanese army.Then several 75mm artillery guns arranged in the rear began to cover and shoot at the No. 217 tank according to the coordinates provided by the observation post on the front line.

In the tragic street fighting in Nanjing, the Japanese army learned a bloody lesson: In street fighting, the tanks in the hands of the Red Army are the most difficult and dangerous enemy. is worth it.If you do not give priority to destroying enemy tanks, it is almost impossible to break through the communist positions where tanks can still be activated.

After more than a month of street fighting in Nanjing, the Red Army permanently lost more than [-] tanks in the city. Except for a very small number of tanks that were blown up by "human bombs", most of the tanks were covered by shells used by the Japanese at all costs. Tactical wreck.destroy

When Wu Mingjie's tank was driving 1000 meters to the final destination, at least three artillery pieces deployed by the Japanese army on the front line were directly aimed at him. In addition, there were many mortars and field artillery deployed in the rear as frontline observers. Under the guidance of the enemy, he fired indirect fire in the direction of his tank.

Originally, the 217 tanks should enter the battlefield after dark to avoid this situation, but because the front line was tight and tank support was urgently needed, they had to take the risk to rush there. The No. 217 tank was bathed in the rain of bullets in the streets full of bullet craters. His appearance attracted a lot of Japanese artillery fire and greatly relieved the pressure on the infantry who were fighting the Japanese army on the front line.

"when!"

That was the loud noise made by the turret of the T[-] tank hit by a shell, but the shell was bounced off by the armor plate that was temporarily reinforced. As a price, the additional external "wheel" that had just been welded on but the joints were very weak , also fell off and collapsed after being shot.

The moment the tank was shot, the four occupants in the car were all sitting in the golden bell cover and were beaten with hammers outside, and all the eardrums were buzzing.

"It's an Italian [-]."

Resisting the feeling of vomiting, Wu Mingjie kicked the driver's left buttock with his left foot, signaling him to turn left.The Italian 1000mm anti-tank gun can penetrate 36mm armor at 300 meters.If it was the original version of T[-], it would have been penetrated by it long ago.However, for this urban combat T[-], the distance between the two sides was more than [-] meters when it was shot-this was an accidental explosion of a character bullet, which only caused slight damage to the [-] vehicle.

The 600 vehicle drove from one crater to another, like attracting monsters, and shells kept falling around it like rain.Fortunately, this dangerous journey was not long. After walking more than 400 meters, the tank stopped about [-] meters from the front line. This is a "tank trench" specially built for tanks.

In the process, the Japanese artillery who had been firing at the No. [-] vehicle, exposing the location of the position, also attracted the Red Army's revenge in a very short period of time. Fire the cannon and smash them directly on the emplacement.

One of the lessons learned by the communist army during the battle with the Japanese army was that the Japanese army also learned the "bayonet on the cannon" style of play during the war.The biggest problem with this tactic of arranging artillery at the front of the offensive position is that it is easy to expose yourself after firing the artillery, and then immediately attract retaliatory artillery fire from the opponent.

In order to destroy the Communist Party's tanks, the Japanese army also used the tactics of hiding artillery on the front line, with bayonets on the cannons, ready to attack the opponent's tanks at any time.

In response, the Red Army also adopted similar tactics. They also hid a large number of small unit artillery groups on the front line, and fired violently as soon as they found the Japanese artillery positions and machine gun positions.In the city of Nanjing, as soon as the tanks came out, they were immediately fired upon by various types of artillery, while the artillery was the second unit to be wiped out after the tanks, and the third was the turn of the machine gun squad.

The infantry is on the front line, but so is the artillery.The result of the two sides bayoneting each other's cannons is often the same as killing each other.The ruins of Nanjing City are too short for shelter, and the density of troops is too high. Whoever is exposed first will be set on fire first.

At this time, the importance of the T26, an urban combat tank that can fire and withstand shells, is extremely prominent.

When the T[-] drove over and stopped in the trench, only half of the turret was exposed. When it was not moving, it was used as a fixed firepower point to shoot at the artillery and machine gun positions exposed by the Japanese army hundreds of meters away.If the Japanese army breaks through the Red Army's position, the tanks will go out as a reserve team for the mobile fortress to cover the counterattack.

The tank defense position was arranged at a distance of 400 meters from the front line, and its initial tactical application began in the Battle of Tongzhou.And it was carried forward even more in the long and bloody Nanjing offensive and defensive battle.

When the No. [-] car parked in the tank trench, Wu Mingjie threw a wired microphone from the car and handed it to the cooperating observer commander outside, and then Wu Mingjie nestled in the tank with "peace of mind", received the instructions from the outside observation post, and turned around. The turret fired at the opposite Japanese position.

In the next half an hour before dark, Wu Mingjie commanded the 500 vehicle, which stopped about [-] to [-] meters away from the front line of the battle, fired a few rounds and left, non-stop at several places near his location. The tanks moved in the trenches, probed, and bombarded the Japanese troops on the front line at any time.

In the car, Wu Mingjie said to the gunner: "The cannons of the little devils are really bad. Their soldiers are not good, and the artillery is not accurate."

Unless necessary, Wu Mingjie's vehicle crew will basically stop at a position of about 500 meters from the defense line of our own side - not too far ahead, because it is easy to enter the secret anti-tank artillery position arranged by the Japanese army at the front of the position. Effective range siege.And once the tank is bombarded by the opponent's artillery and the track is blown off, even if you want to retreat from the battlefield for repairs, it will be impossible before dark: because the Japanese snipers who have been prepared will shoot and kill any opponent who wants to support the tank at this time .As for the crew members of the injured tank, if they don't want to die during this period, it is best to wait in the tank until it gets dark before considering withdrawing.

Ask for a monthly ticket_________-

-------------------- Chapter 259 Planting the Flag --------------------

A rice ball wrapped in seaweed, a piece of dried fish, a small piece of dried meat, and a small bowl of bean and cabbage soup. This was the (last) dinner of the Japanese soldiers who participated in the street fighting in Nanjing on December 21.

For the Japanese troops participating in the Nanjing Campaign, the quality of food supplies available to the frontline troops has been declining slightly.

After the Battle of Songhu broke out, the Japanese army killed, burned, looted and committed all kinds of crimes here.After grabbing a wave, the food supply was pretty good at first.But most of the looted goods were shipped back to China to fill the greedy and hungry appetite of the chaebol.

Then the war stalled.The territory where the Red Army had intervened in front had been fortified and cleared early, leaving it empty.In the rear area, there is nothing to grab because they have already taken a wave.

The front-line Japanese army, which had difficulty collecting food on the spot, had to rely on the rear to transport food.Historically, during the Japanese invasion of China, because the early stage was extremely smooth, countless plunders were robbed, and there was still money to import beef from the United States to make the famous "Yamato boiled" canned food.However, this plane has suffered repeated defeats, and its economy has long been reduced to a difficult state that was close to the situation in 1944. The only advantage is that human resources are still sufficient, and the horse dung that costs twenty-five cents is dead. rise.

On December 21st, the total number of divisions sent by the Japanese army to the Songhu battlefield had reached a breakthrough of [-] divisions, but more than [-]% of the newly added troops were super soldiers who had been training for less than a month. Newbie rookie.

These rookies boarded a ship at Kagoko Port in southern Japan, and were transported to Hangzhou Bay after a few days of rough seas. When they landed, they deliberately did not choose the bustling Shanghai but chose Jinshanwei, a remote port in the south, in order to avoid these recruits. Bad news was obtained in Shanghai—now Shanghai is full of a large number of wounded soldiers withdrawn from the Nanjing front, and the Japanese army is worried about affecting morale.

The port here in Jinshanwei lacks equipment for loading and unloading heavy equipment, but it is not a problem at all for the supplementary divisions shipped from China-because these supplementary divisions are standard "D" divisions, not so much infantry divisions. Rather a rifle division.Moreover, the last No.19 supplementary division that was transported in December did not have all the firearms. It stopped near Jinshanwei for a day, waiting for the firearms repaired by the firearms repair shop built by the Japanese army in Shanghai to fill the gap. , Just put into the Nanjing front line.

Nanjing is a fire pit, Nanjing is a meat grinder,

The war has reached the current level, and the division heads who participated in the Nanjing Battle first all knew it well.Especially the seven withdrawn main divisions, they would rather accompany Fang Su's Red Army in the rear to fight against public security, but they would never go back to that meat grinder. The cannon fodder soldiers such as Division Ding were thrown directly into the meat grinder in Nanjing within less than forty days after joining the army.

The ten divisions that jumped into this pit instead of the seven divisions in the past are all "oiled" at this time, and they have also learned to bully the newcomers.

The "Rifle Division" of the Ding and other divisions does not need any artillery skills, as long as they can charge the board with a gun, the ratio of soldiers is surprisingly high.

Tactical skills?Basically no.

courage?

"New here? Are you going to dance in Nanjing? Come on, boy, uncle has a newly made 'ice' grain pill, take one half an hour before the charge..."

The Japanese army who took over the Nanjing offensive has been relying on a large number of "ice" grain pills to maintain the morale of the attacking troops since November.This substance was synthesized and invented by Japanese chemist A. Xionggata (also known as Ogata Akira) in 1919. In 1936, German medical scientist Mayer published a paper for the first time, pointing out that taking methamphetamine can eliminate fatigue and improve the ability of continuous work .As soon as this news was released, it immediately attracted the attention of countries all over the world, especially the military, and caused the governments of various countries in the midst of World War II to think wrongly.

On this plane, Japan was the first to use it on a large scale. It was for the locusts who had "humanoid anti-tank bullets" to try out in the Northeast when they were fighting against the Soviet Red Army. , began to be widely abused in the army.The notorious kamikaze squads in history are actually kamikaze drug squads.

Here in the South China battlefield, it began to be used extensively after the Nanjing Battle began.

"The red army has blue, the locust army has ice", swallowing a grain of ice food, I realized that my life is not up to me!

The second-class recruit Umeki is from Togawa, Tokyo. He was conscripted to join the army with his fellow countryman Sokichi. After 25 days of training, he was thrown to the Songhu battlefield in a hurry.The teams they belong to are actually all from the same area.It was too late for the Japanese army to train soldiers, and now when soldiers are sent to the battlefield, they are deliberately divided into regions.From the perspective of the superiors, this way they will cooperate more smoothly when fighting.

Umeki and Sokichi ate perhaps the last meal in their lives, finished eating ice, and together with other soldiers from the same village, quietly guarded the frontline attack position.

Before the onset of the effect of ice, both Umeki and Sokichi were filled with tension and fear.

In Japan, the war in China is strictly kept secret. Various false propagandas and layers of information cocoons prevent ordinary soldiers from knowing what happened on the Chinese battlefield.

But Sokichi is an exception. He was born as a fisherman, his family owns a fishing boat, and he married the daughter of a soy sauce shop. His wife's family is a small capitalist, and his family background is not bad. He knows some friends who have special channels. Some bad news.

His family has a beautiful wife, and he was born in a fisherman's family. He was one of the few rare items that could guarantee food and clothing in this period in Japan. He was really in good health when he was conscripted, and he was targeted by people at the conscription office.In Japan during this period, people who know what to order are the most miserable.

Half an hour later, with the onset of the effect of the medicine, Zongji heard that the breathing of the fellow villagers around him became short of breath, and his spirit began to fall into a slight trance and a state of excitement.

Sokichi also felt something strange in his body.

Unlike the fellow villagers who are mostly bachelors, Sokichi who has a beautiful wife thinks of death and love at this moment.

He tightened his grip on the Springfield rifle that had been passed down countless hands. When this old gun was passed on to Zongji, he found that there was still black blood on the stock of the gun. It was "passed down" by a certain Japanese soldier who was killed.