Chapter 199 The Bloody Battle of Shanghai

Zhang Xuewu is very clear that he said that he could not hold on because of the lack of soldiers, because although he had carried out pre-war mobilization and formed 65 active-duty divisions and more than 35 reserve divisions, the national economic system of Japan has not been included in the overall strategic mobilization.

In fact, this is a very abnormal economic system, because war is the most important link in the overall strategic link of the country. My practice is actually to cover up the fragile surname of its economy. In order to avoid the early collapse of the economic system, I can only increase the plunder of North Korea, Taiwan and the three eastern provinces. Otherwise, the national strength of Japan cannot support the consumption of more than 100 divisions without turning into the wartime economic system.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese authorities began to warn all countries that civil aviation passenger planes should not fly to all the war areas between China and the two countries, otherwise they would be shot down, but I also made a special case, such as a few Eurasian flights controlled by the United States and the United Kingdom. In a word, I watched the dishes. However, in the face of the absolute advantage of the Japanese navy, it informed all countries with the status of a belligerent country and banned all military supplies and military materials from being imported into China. Its scope is very wide, and there is no countermeasures outside the face of China's political axe. At this time, the power of the powerful naval power of the Japanese empire is finally reflected.

Sure enough, the thing that Zhang Xuewu was most worried about finally happened. On April 6, 1937, China said that the two sides were in one. After the 28th War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai, another war of Shanghai broke out on the largest scale.

Different from history, the Shanghai dispatched army is not directly under the jurisdiction of the military department, but is transferred to the staff headquarters. The chief of the general staff, Tada Jun, directly commands Matsui Shigen, the commander of the Shanghai dispatched army. This is a unique command mode in the Japanese army, that is, the ultimate embodiment of the staff system. When the head of the division is not in the combat command position, the division The senior staff of the regiment acts as its command, rather than the head of a subordinate brigade.

At the beginning of the formation of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Tada Jun guided his campaign goals directly to the capital, so he sent Ishihara Guaner, the Deputy Chief of Staff, to guide the operation. The Shanghai Dispatch Army was directly under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 101st, 11th Divisions, Shigeto Deteng Detachment, and Field Heavy The Fifth Artillery Brigade, the communication team, and the troops directly under the station are not the successive transfer of troops in history, but in one go, which has caused great trouble to the [***] team that is increasing its troops and intends to use its troops one by one.

In Zhang Xuewu's view, Japan's policy towards the United States at this time should still strive to maintain a goodwill relationship with the United States, because I am very clear that although Manchuria has rich coal and iron resources, it lacks the most important strategic resources, oil and rubber. These important strategic resources are controlled by Americans and British in Southeast Asia, so you must not turn against the United States unless you have to. As long as you don't turn against the United Kingdom and the United States, the United States, which pursues the policy of loneliness, and the United Kingdom, which pursues the policy of appeasement, will acquiesce to the existence of Manchukuo, because one of them is controlled by himself. Manchuria just eliminated the worries of going south for the United Kingdom and the United States.

In fact, there was a plan for the navy and army to jointly capture Wuhan in the early 1930s. However, in view of the strengthening of the political axe strength of the central government in Nanjing, China, this plan has been forced to give up the plan to capture Wuhan once there is a war, because it is not allowed by the strength of the country.

However, the combat strength of the [***] team in the north-south division makes it unable to echo its north and south. Heavy troops block the Rehe Legion, make it useless, cut off the north-south advance plan of Pinghan, Jingpu and Zhengtai Road, and force the overall strategy of Nanjing to the national strength of the Japanese empire. It is still allowed. It takes a certain amount of time for occupation to eliminate unstable factors and stabilize the international situation. People who are still clear in their minds in China have long realized that it is impossible to completely destroy China within six months to a year, and it is likely to be dragged into the quagmire of a protracted war. Self-indraw.

Twenty nautical miles away from the mouth of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, more than a dozen destroyers are closely protecting the flagship battleship Izumo of the Chinese fleet. From time to time, there are three formations of Type 95 naval fighters in the air. Obviously, today seems to be a big day for me.

In the meeting that I thought was luxurious, the base camp was sent by Lieutenant General Hatomiya, General Matsui Ishine, the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Ishihara Guaner, the deputy director of the General of the General Staff Headquarters, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke Yanagawa, the commander of the 10th Army, and Lieutenant General Fujita Jin, the commander of the Third Division, and Chief of the Staff. Colonel, Lieutenant General Toshio Tani, Commander of the Sixth Division, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Shimono Ichiho, Commander of the 11th Division, Lieutenant General Yamamuro Somu, Chief of Staff, Colonel Katamura, Lieutenant General Sadao Nakajima, Commander of the 18th Division, Colonel Megumi Koto, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Ito Masaki, Chief of the Division Division, Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro Sa, Lieutenant General Moji Momatsu, the commander of the 1st and 14th Division, and Colonel Saburo Isoda, the chief of staff, Major General Chiaki Shigeto, the leader of the Shigeto Detachment, and Major General He Zhongji, the commander of the 3rd Flying Division of the Army Air Force, gathered together.

The whole conference room is full of flattery. Almost all the Japanese generals are congratulating King Hatohiko and Matsui Ishigen. Although the war ahead is extremely unsmooth, it is planned to transfer troops from the Tenth Army from the landing side of Hangzhou Bay to hit the [***] soft ribs, but the atmosphere at this moment seems to be in It's like celebrating victory.

Among all the people, only Ishihara Guaner was very calm. Ishihara looked at the East Palace Tienan of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 36th Brigade of the Sixth Division beside him and smiled and said, "Is Tienan always good? What's the matter with you?"

Donggong Tienan hurriedly saluted and said with gratitude, "Thank you for your concern. Everything is fine, but I just don't adapt to the weather in the south of China. I miss Manchuria!"

Yamamura Zongwu, the head of the 11th Division beside him, was a little dissatisfied with Ishihara Guaner, so he said to his chief of staff, "Ishihara is getting more and more arrogant. I said a few words to him. Looking at his hard-paying appearance, it makes people annoyed. Who is the colonel over there? They seem to be very familiar?"

Katamura Shiha took a look at Donggong Tienan and said with a smile, "Your Excellency, the head of the division, don't you know? That guy is the famous East Palace Iron Man! In those years, it was he who secretly killed Zhang Zuolin with the detonator of Emperor Feng in Manchuria. He was a famous radical! But two, two. After the six incidents, they were also much more honest. If it hadn't been for Hideki Tojo, these people would have been purged together.

Ishihara looked at the ambitious generals one by one and sighed at Donggong Tienan: "In fact, the most difficult thing is not how to start a war. The excuse is actually not important. The real thing is to know how to end a war. In the old saying of China, it is to meet well. That's it. The imperial staff headquarters strategically despised China in order to boost morale and boost the hearts of the people. After all, China is too big for the empire, but our generals are stupid enough to tactically despise China! The same is true of Rehe Chengde's fiasco!"

Donggong Tienan hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Excellency, this time, our imperial army is determined to use a total of nine divisions, four infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, and a total of more than 280,000 people in the Shanghai Special Marine Corps, more than 120 warships, more than 500 aircraft, and equipped with more than 300 of the latest Type 95 vehicles. Isn't it easy to deal with the Chinese army?

Ishihara smiled and said, "Mr. Donggong! What would you do if your team arrived near Nanjing?

Donggong Tienan was slightly stunned and said, "Of course it's an attack! The capture of the capital of China is the glory that my empire has not had in the next two thousand years. Even if the order is fought alone to attack the city and die under the city, there will be no regret! Glorious and magnificent!"

Ishihara Guan'er said coldly, "Now the Shanghai dispatched army has invested in five divisions, and it is still ready to put in three divisions to hit the soft spot of *** on the landing side of Hangzhou Bay. However, it will take at least 20 days for the troops to complete the shipment. This protracted war is estimated to come to an end, in Shanghai and Shanghai. There is also a Chinese national defense line between Hangzhou, the Wufu line, but this defense line is not worth mentioning. It can be said that once the Imperial Army defeats the main force of the Chinese army in Shanghai, Nanjing, the capital of China, will be completely exposed to us. At present, our army needs time to complete the transportation and material deployment of the entire dispatched army, but The main purpose is to use a large number of elite direct troops of the Nanjing Central Government Axe in the Battle of Shanghai to destroy the determination of the Chinese people to destroy their elite direct line, such as Zhang Xuewu of Rehe and the German Mechantist of Nanjing Political Axe.

Donggong Tienan nodded in surprise and said, "It is said that the China Army is very brave and fearless in Shanghai. Even if it has been tenaciously defended within the range of our warships, our army can only occupy the position in the case of the total destruction of the enemy. In such a narrow combat area of Shanghai, so many troops are invested in the large regiment. I'm afraid the battle is also a very strong stroke in the history of world war!"

Ishihara Guaner nodded and said, "However, although the ground troops in the northern branch made rapid progress, they were intercepted by the air force of the Rehe Zhang Xuewu Department. A few days ago, it was Zhang Xuewu's military fighters that shot down my 17 Type 97 heavy explosion. These fighters brought us too much threat, so I asked for more troops. The flying troops lured the enemy to go to war and used the interval of their battle to destroy the fighters on the ground.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek, who rushed to the Shanghai front line to inspect, looked at the flashing subordinates and felt very satisfied, especially Hao Wenbin and Ye Yunfei sitting at the end. However, what made Chiang Kai-shek more satisfied was his fellow villager Huang Tianming, who was the commander of the 105th Fighter Brigade under the Rehe Army, four A month ago, the 105th Fighter Brigade moved to Nanjing to do the so-called exchange training. At that time, Huang Tianming was still reluctant. He was afraid that he would leave Rehe and lose the opportunity to play Xiaojiben. Unexpectedly, four months later, there would be endless Xiaojiben in Shanghai.

Although the surname of the BF-109 fighter can be used for many purposes, it still can't stand my own wolf tactics, and the Japanese army has openly shot our parachuting pilots, aiming to hit the morale of my pilots. Huang Tianming is now the most of the nine brigades in the Rehe battle. The high-record trump card crash king, the number of 22 shooting downs made Rehe's colleagues out of reach. In comparison, it is true that the aircraft of this naval aviation is easier to fight than the land and sea fighters of the Rehe Kwantung Army Flying Division.

Chiang Kai-shek nominated and praised the outstanding record of the fighter brigade commanded by Huang Tianming on April 10th. The record of 37 to 3 made the Japanese fighter plane dare not run rampant on the Shanghai battlefield, and decided to designate April 10 every year as the Air Force Festival!

After the General Staff continuously announced the order of troops to reinforce the Shanghai battlefield, Xiong Shihui once again stood up and emphasized the three-point anti-Japanese war propositions, repeatedly defeated and defeated repeatedly! Immigrants are clear, and the walls are clear! Avoid the real attack, and move day and night.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the seventh artillery regiment to go to Baoding under the command of Sun Lianzhong, which was equipped with Czech-style wild artillery and belonged to the direct line of the Central Army. The 32nd Army of the Ministry of Commerce and Earthquake was required to transfer four main regiments to form a division to station in Shijiazhuang, and prepare follow-up combat materials first. At the same time, he appeased Han Fuyu and stabilized the situation in Shandong. Chiang Kai-shek was most worried about the Japanese army landing in Qingdao and Haizhou, cutting off Jinpu Road, and cutting off the contact between the central government and the north, so he decided to be excellent. First of all, the troops of Han Fuyu were supplemented, and the communication troops also advanced to the north to effectively grasp the situation in the north.

After many trivial matters, He Yingqin, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, said with no expression on his face: "This report is mainly to review the reserve of ammunition and grain and new weapons! Our army reserves 700 million rounds of rifle shells, 400 million were found to be in stock, and 300 million rounds were distributed to the army. There are 90 million in stock south of the Yellow River, 40 million in Wuchang north of the Yangtze River, and 100 million in Nanjing. 400,000 rounds of mountain shells, 900,000 rounds of infantry and mortar shells, and 50,000 rounds of combat artillery shells. These ammunitions are enough for 30 German mechanicists to fight for three months. There are 600,000 grain reserves, 100,000 horses in a month, and they are being purchased for two months. There is no above reserve north of the Yellow River at all. The first task is to push one of the above grain bomb reserves to the north of the Yellow River. Each division of Han Fuyu plans to add 2,000 new Han rifles to each division. One battalion of the Communication Corps was transferred to Xinxiang, and one battalion was transferred to Zhengzhou for standby. It can go north at any time. Four of the above reserves of ammunition were provided by Rehe. Now the Japanese army has completed the strategic encirclement of Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan, and it is also unable to get a shot from Rehe. At the same time, it can't support the Rehe Zhang Xuewu Army. The urgent thing to delay is to expand production and find import channels. Otherwise, in less than five months, our army will fall into the dilemma of no guns and bullets. If the Battle of Shanghai persists for two months, our army's ammunition will be completely exhausted.

In the past, Chiang Kai-shek only knew that Zhang Xuewu was constantly providing ammunition to Nanjing, and it seemed that he had also made a large amount of reserves in several warehouses under the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. Originally, he didn't feel anything. Now he realized the important surname of Rehe. It is a magnificent country, and the national government axe only has two months of ammunition storage. In this case, will you have a life-and-death battle with me? It seems to be too risky, but now it has reached the point of not fighting. If giving himself three years, the Germans will help them build a military system, and more than half of their 60 editors will be trained, then it will definitely be another scene.

There are twelve trainers now, and most of them are adjusters. Due to Japanese interference, most of Germany's contracts with China have not been realized or delayed in the end.

Due to the special topographical relationship of the warring region of Shanghai, the middle [***] team is unable to give full play to its strength, and in the face of the Japanese army's land, sea and air three-dimensional combat mode, there is no balance line between quantity and quality, and the local small victory cannot save the huge injury caused by the overall increase of troops. The negative effect caused by death.

In the combat sequence of the National Revolutionary Army in the whole Songhu War Zone, its troops are divided into left, middle and right armies. Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the left-wing army, Liu Jianxu, the commander-in-chief of the central army, and Zhang Fakui, the commander-in-chief of the right-wing army, have tossed the unruly and elite Central Army.

Before, he was still joking that the Central Army was a light on the surface of the donkey dung eggs, and a big counterattack launched by the nine well-equipped Gui elite brigades in Pudong just collided head-on with the Japanese army's attack, wearing grass-green military uniforms and British flat-top helmets, carrying the Czech-made Gui elites with their flesh and blood and Japanese warships. The fire network composed of ground artillery, tanks and aviation firepower fought all morning, and the predecessors of the [***] people finally lost to the modern three-dimensional attack of the Japanese army.

In just one morning, three brigade commanders were killed in battle, and more than 40,000 officers and soldiers who attacked were only less than 10,000. Even so, the nine brigade of Guangxi still rectified the remnants and grabbed the lost attack departure position. According to their words, the front brothers gave me the position, and I couldn't lose it in my hands. Otherwise, I'm sorry for the brothers who left first!

When Li Zongren learned the news of the defeat of the new elite Ninth Brigade of the Guangxi Department, he staggered on the sofa, and tears flowed uncontrollably along his cheeks. You know, the elite of the Ninth Brigade was the team he had trained for many years. It was originally used for the expansion of the anti-Jiang Third Brigade, but he didn't expect that five years of hard work was lost? This is 40,000 Guangxi children! I believe that after this battle, Guangxi will be full of white flags.

The news reached Bai Chongxi, the deputy chief of staff of the government. Bai Chongxi looked up to the sky with no expression on his face and sighed. The failure of this attack was originally Bai Chongxi's expectation, but he didn't expect that he would lose so tragically! Mr. Jiang! Bai Chongxi's mouth is full of bitter words at this moment. I don't know where to start? The Central Army has begun to fight for bone and blood in Shanghai, and the three regiments of the teaching corps have become semi-damaged. Now under the order of Jiang Gong, whether it is the Sichuan army or the Guangxi army, Yan Xishan in Shanxi is also fighting for the old book. Who dares not to listen to the dispatch? Otherwise, a big hat that destroys the anti-Japanese war and helps the enemy can ruin your reputation.

However, Zhang Xuewu is more uncomfortable than Bai Chongxi, because Zhang Xuewu has been completely reduced to a watcher who is in a hurry.

(to be continued)