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Chapter 202 Strategic Intent 1

Gui Yongqing's meal can be called the most cost-effective meal in the history of the Republic of China. Zhang Xuewu also had 12 German three-type tanks in the Nanjing warehouse, which were also divided equally between the teaching team and the 74th Army, and also took a total of 40 105mm imitation German howitzers from Zhang Xuewu, and Thirty 75mm imitation Knump Mountain wild cannons.

Zhang Xuewu had stored a large number of shells, mines and other materials in Nanjing before. Now it seems that these materials will play a great role, and Zhang Xuewu does not want to use too many troops to defend the periphery of Nanjing as in history, and repeatedly compete with the Japanese army for consumption.

Zhang Xuewu's strategic intention is to give up the outer line, build a large-scale fortification system in Qixia Mountain, build a large-scale fortification system in Zhongshan Mausoleum and Zijin Mountain, hold along the Qinhuai River, blow up all bridges, and control all the more than 50 ships of AVIC in the downstream. The two heavy artillery brigades are all placed in Hu Zongnan on the north bank. Hu Zongnan is also grateful to Zhang Xuewu for giving him two heavy artillery brigades!

Hu Zongnan is the direct line of Chiang Kai-shek's decent school, just like Tang Enbo, but Hu Zongnan is not as good as Tang Enbo. Zhang Xuewu's trust in him makes Hu Zongnan feel a little flattered. Zhang Xuewu still holds Shang Fang's sword in his hand, so Hu Zongnan must keep this for Zhang Xuewu from any perspective. If the two heavy artillery brigades are lost, Hu Zongnan also knows that Chairman Jiang can't forgive him.

Zhang Xuewu's move can be said to imitate that in the defense of Stalingrad, the Soviet army placed heavy artillery troops on the side of the canal, so that the German army was always under the fire of the Soviet army.

Zhang Xuewu's strategic arrangement is to take the Nanjing city wall as the final defense line, using the commanding heights of Zijin Mountain and Yuhuatai and other places to cooperate with the air force. As long as the Japanese army cannot control the absolute air sizing power, the teaching headquarters on Zijinshan and Yuhuatai and the artillery of the 74th Army will let the Japanese army know what shelling is.

Zhang Xuewu has hoarded 300,000 75mm shells, 220,000 105mm shells, and 150,000 150mm high-explosive grenades in Nanjing. It can be said that these shells are enough to blow me back to my grandma's house.

However, Zhang Xuewu is most concerned about the fortifications in Zijin Mountain, Zhongshan Mausoleum, Qixia Mountain and other places. The later PLA can be regarded as the essence of civil fortifications. The civil fortifications built by the volunteer army in the Korean battlefield can withstand the direct hit of 152mm heavy howitzers, which can be called military history. It's a miracle.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu made use of everything that could be used in Nanjing. 30,000 tons of cement and 2,000 tons of steel bars of Nanjing Cement Factory and Steel Factory were all used. Every day the Japanese army delayed attacking Nanjing, Nanjing's permanent fortifications were better prepared.

Zhang Xuewu intercepted at least 50,000 people in the scattered soldiers and small established troops retreating through Nanjing. These people were sent to Jiangbei for training, and issued helmets and new military uniforms and weapons. More than 30,000 of them were all added to the divisions guarding Nanjing. At this moment, Zhang Xuewu holds 220,000 troops, compared with There are more than 150,000 people in history, more than 70,000 people, and the German troops retreating to Nanjing in history have long had no virtue replenishment. One soldier is only 20 bullets, and most of the new recruits have fired big knives or two grenades. Nowadays, the strength and firepower of each division has been unprecedentedly improved, not only the weight of Jiangbei. Artillery and reserve support, as well as artillery support from artillery directly under each division.

About 200,000 imported and simple mines produced in Baotou were buried all over the fields by the engineers of the two regiments, not even Bretu. After the war, this was a great trouble, but Zhang Xuewu believed that it would take two weeks for the Japanese army outside Nanjing to clear mines. These mines were laid to win the last time for Zhang Xuewu.

The Oolong Mountain Fortress on the flank of Qixia Mountain is a place to be built in the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty. Later, it was built by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Especially from 35 to 36 years, it was carried out on a large-scale construction and improvement as a model fortification of the Wufu Line. The permanent fortifications were equipped with a closed fortress group of Yongbei trenches. At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek inspected this place. The Wu Fu line was also imaginaryly built according to the general mountain fortress of Qixia Mountain and Wulong Mountain, but what Chiang Kai-shek did not expect was that the officials below put their hands down and repaired Wu Fu line on the map.

Zhang Xuewu made a great determination before he completely gave up competing for the outer positions in Nanjing, so Zhang Xuewu began to arrange a general retreat of Zhenjiang and Jiangyin fortresses. The two fortresses of Zhenjiang and Jiangyin have a total of 27 forts, 16 German 88mm semi-automatic high-level dual-purpose guns, and 150mm German-millimeter grenades. Twenty-two guns, eight German-made Kerrupp's 240mm fortress guns, and a total of 152 guns removed from old ships.

These large-caliber Krump fortress cannons can be said to be the treasures of the grandfather' generation. Many cannons can't even call out the specific model Zhang Xuewu. At the end of 1919, Beiyang Zheng Axe bought the old German cannons from Britain and France, and their power was quite shocking.

While arranging the forced evacuation of the people in Nanjing City, Zhang Xuewu rushed to Yanziji with all the officers above the division. A heavy artillery regiment of the National Political Axe was stationed here. Historically, the National Political Axe was only equipped with a heavy artillery regiment, which was the famous artillery regiment. Peng Mengji, the colonel's commander, Mingxi, was from Wuchang, Hubei Province. He graduated from the Department of Literature of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and then entered the fifth phase of the Artillery Department of Huangpu Military Academy. In the same year, he graduated and entered the Japanese Field Artillery School for further study.

However, due to the influence of Zhang Xuewu, the National Political Axe has now compiled three heavy artillery regiments, the 11th Artillery Regiment and the 12th Artillery Regiment. However, these two regiments have moved to Wuhan. Chiang Kai-shek is best equipped with 36 German-made 350-meter heavy howitzers with 32 times caliber and 30 times caliber. The Tenth Artillery Regiment stayed in Nanjing.

And Zhang Xuewu also arranged it in Yanziji. One is to block the Yangtze River with two heavy artillery brigades on the north coast to prevent the defenders from being attacked by the enemy. The second is that it can provide firepower support to the whole battlefield of Wulongshan Fortress and Qixia Mountain Fortress. The 18-millimeter high-level dual-purpose guns of 16 German guns withdrawn from Zhenjiang and Jiangyin are also Deployed in Yanziji, Peng Mengji was appointed as the commander of Yanziji by Zhang Xuewu. The army used the 41st Division of Yanziji to guard and build fortifications.

Zhang Xuewu held a very formal deployment on-site office meeting on the way to Yanziji. It was planned to use the 48th Division to guard the Wulong Mountain Fortress, the second brigade of Wu Jianxiong of the 598th Division, one to guard Baguazhou and the other to guard Jiangxinzhou, and to teach the 103rd Division of Gui Yongqing to guard Qixia Mountain. In response to the fortress, Ye Zhao's headquarters of the 60th Division took the 51st Division and the 57th Division of the 74th Army to guard the front line of Gujiaying, Yangjiazhuang, Dashishan and Liuzhuang, relying on the geographical advantages of the Qinhuai River branch to build fortifications, and to build a second-line position in Guanghuamen with the 58th Division.

With the headquarters of the 454th Division and the 1-6th Division, they defended the Hewan, Datang, Hongcun, Jinsheng Village and other Qinhuai River, and blasted all the bridges. According to the river, the 87th Division is located in **tai to build fortifications, and the 88th Division is located in Yuhuatai to build fortifications, 30th The Sixth Division was stationed along the Zhongshan Mausoleum and Zijin Mountain.

The temporary mechanized first division is stationed along the Weixingcun Railway Station, teaching the 1st and 2nd divisions, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments of the gendarmerie. After the reorganization, the temporary one-in-one, one-two, one-two, one-third, one-four and five brigades are the general reserve teams.

Zhang Xuewu's deployment of troops convinced everyone. The most difficult gap to keep was resisted by the direct line of the Rehe Legion. What else do you have to say? Besides, Zhang Xuewu added soldiers and weapons and equipment to everyone. In Ye Zhao's words, he didn't say that he was good, but he was scolded.

Zhang Xuewu concentrated all the ferries that had been destroyed and sunk by Tang Shengzhi in history in the area of Pukou Wharf for concealment, and placed the only 49 BF-109F of the fighter fleet and 52 Hawks of the sixth and seventh destroyer fleets of the Air Force in the Dingshan Field Airport in Jiangbei, giving up the peripheral array. Zhang Xuewu is handy in Chengde, but the urban area of Chengde is relatively small, and the depth of Nanjing Chengyuan is relatively large. Compared with Zhang Xuewu, he has more room to play.

In the positions built along Zijin Mountain, Yuhuatai, Wulong Mountain and Qinhuai River, Zhang Xuewu launched 200,000 young and strong laborers in Nanjing to build a sudden construction. First, the elderly, women and children were evacuated in batches. On the way to evacuation, the south of Hu Zong was responsible for organizing and providing necessary food and security guards. For Passing through Nanjing, Zhang Xuewu, a soldier who was not dressed neatly and had a scattered military discipline, issued a death order, and all of them were intercepted and collected. They were placed in the Confucius Temple for dressing up and training. If there is any disobeying, they will be on the law on the spot.

After hundreds of soldiers were executed in concentration, the military discipline of all parts of the Shanghai combat troops passing through Nanjing suddenly improved greatly. Some troops even concentrated on washing their faces. No matter how broken military uniforms were, they had to be dressed neatly. Without buttons, they were tied to death with threads. Whether they were troops or not, they must retreat in a neat line, because they entered the south. In the Beijing area, only Chinese Air Force fighters with blue and white emblems can be seen on the wings. The Japanese army has launched several challenges to Nanjing's so-called absolute air defense circle, and without exception, they were beaten to smoke everywhere. When I realized that the actions of the army aviation force and the naval aviation force were useless, so I gave it to China. The defenders boosted their morale, so the Japanese army also stopped air strikes on Nanjing.

Killing without blinking an eye has become the most typical impression given by Zhang Xuewu to each department. No matter who you are, what Zhang Xuewu stipulates is the prescribed boundary. If you cross the boundary, you will be killed without discussion. If you can't think about it, you will be reincarnated to learn smarter in the next life.

Historically, the scattered and looting of the dispersing of troops has basically not happened. It takes less time for such troops to retreat and retrain, and the damage to morale is also low.

(to be continued)