Chapter 254 The Last Moment of Nanjing Defense 1

The death of Heiyan Yisheng did not affect the progress of this predestined battle. In Niushou Mountain, the national hero Yue Wumu, once set up a base in the ancient battlefield to break the Golden Army. All the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Army of the National Revolutionary Army were all 5,77 soldiers under the colonel Sun Guiming, the commander of the brigade. Martyrdom, it is said that I took the lives of [***] people, but I can't destroy the resistance will of [***] people.

Sun Guiming's death made Zhang Xuewu feel great grief. Sun Guiming was Zhang Xuewu's most proud brigade commander and the candidate for the sixth reorganization of the Rehe Army. Sun Guiming is different from Zhang Xuewu's Northeast faction. This person's loyalty to Zhang Xuewu far exceeds his loyalty to the party and the country, so Zhang Xuewu He values this person very much. It can be said that the main reason why Zhang Xuewu brought Sun Guiming to Nanjing was that he was gilded in Nanjing. He didn't expect that Sun Guiming would die in Nanjing in the end?

Sun Guiming, the first colonel brigade commander killed in the Rehe Army, immediately chased the major general and brigade commander of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. The living man played a play to the dead. Sun Guiming's family received the highest pension in the history of the Republic of China, and it was also a full 20,000 silver shining ocean. Zhang Xuewu directly gave power to Rehe. The provincial government requires Sun Guiming's orphans to immediately issue a pension of 200,000 yuan, which is ten times that of the central government. It is one of the three principles that Zhang Xuewu adheres to.

The fierce counterattack of the Nanjing garrison only lasted until dawn. The Chinese garrison, which also suffered heavy casualties, retreated to the city wall. According to my understanding, after the sudden and fierce counterattack, will it be ready to surrender or negotiate? After all, Nanjing is the place where China's capital is located. What does the final counterattack of the Chinese defenders seem to make me feel?

After dawn, whether it is the Chinese garrison or the Japanese army, the whole Nanjing city fell into silence. A large area of corpses surrounding the Nanjing wall made both the attacking Japanese army and the Chinese garrison a little tremble. It can be said that such heavy casualties made both the attack and defense die together. Feeling? The ranks of Japanese military officers who were killed in the battle were also promoted from lieutenant colonel and colonel to generals, and four generals died one after another.

In the counterattack of Yuhuatai, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, Zhu Chi, the major general of the 264th Brigade, Gao Zhisong, the commander of the 264th Brigade, and Yi Anhua, the commander of the 29th Brigade, were all martyred. There were dense bodies of the two officers and soldiers along the Yuhuatai.

Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace, who arrived at the front in person, frowned slightly at the bodies of the two armies in the front position. The casualties of the troops were beyond the so-called bearability of Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace.

Moreover, the Japanese army failed to conquer Nanjing within the deadline given to him by Emperor Hirohito. The Japanese army that attacked Nanjing had reached nine divisions and three reading mixed brigades, three heavy artillery brigades and three chariot regiments, three special formations of the navy and the army and navy aviation, a total of 49 squadrons.

With such heavy casualties, they can't capture Nanjing. The generals of the military base camp and the staff headquarters are puzzled. When did the combat effectiveness of [***] improve so much? Or is the combat effectiveness of the imperial army of this empire regressed?

After a fierce battle, Nanjing City suddenly fell into a dead silence. Hao Wenbin, who attacked Zhonghua Gate, got an unexpected surprise, that is, the flag of the 23rd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army. In the fierce and repeated rushes, a commando team was in a building The bodies of many Japanese soldiers were found in the collapsed houses? After a simple clean-up, the complete wing flag was found under the body of a Japanese lieutenant.

It is said that the military flag squadron was directly destroyed by dense rockets. The absolute killing radius of 105mm high-explosive rockets is seven meters. That is to say, within this radius, even if it is not hit by shrapnel, the shock wave generated by the explosion can kill people alive.

He captured a Japanese army wing flag. Hao Wenbin, who was ecstatic, immediately reported to Zhang Xuewu. Zhang Xuewu also immediately sent a relevant telegram to the Wuhan camp. In Zhang Xuewu's view, a large part of it was also caused by luck.

Zhang Xuewu sent a speedboat to send the flag to Wuhan overnight, and a group of officials in the Wuhan camp seized this once-in-a-a-lifetime opportunity to carry out publicity, as if it was not Nanjing, the capital of China, but his own Tokyo.

The Sixth Division, which almost lost the flag of the wing several times, finally failed to escape this disaster. The anger and howling of Hatohiko Chaoxiang Palace did not help. Gu Shoufu did not have to be removed from office because of the Nanjing Massacre as in history, but history also has amazing similarities, that is, Gu Shoufu's history. After the trial of the International Court of the Far East, he was shot and killed by Chinese military police in Nanjing. This time, Gu Shoufu, an extremely arrogant militarist, did not choose the glory of the samurai and the way of cesarean section. Instead, he ended his "glorious" life with a Browning pistol from Hatomiya.

Because Gu Shoufu created a miracle in the miracle of the Imperial Army, that is, all the flags of the four infantry regiments belonging to a division were lost, and even captured by [***]. This shame is the last thing the Japanese army is unwilling to face, and the navy has no such scruples. The loss of the flag of the 23rd Wing made all the infantry regiments of the whole Central Expeditionary Army participate in the attack on Nanjing, hiding their flags like the money jars of the Zhou Bapi family.

All the officers of the 23rd Wing who lost the flag of the wing committed suicide by caesarean section. The remaining soldiers desperately launched a suicide attack on Zhonghuamen. There was no artillery support, no chariot coordination, and no bombing cover. The rows of Japanese soldiers were killed by direct shooting in the streets and by the moat outside Zhonghuamen. .

It can be said that the counterattack and the loss of the flag of the 23rd Wing of the infantry were a great shock to all the Japanese troops attacking Nanjing.

After fighting under Nanjing City for dozens of days, I couldn't stand it. The lie that I could win in the last five minutes was completely shattered under Nanjing City. Looking at the collapsed Nanjing wall, especially the bodies of the two officers and soldiers piled up in the position of the breakthrough, I really couldn't fight, because Almost all Japanese generals clearly realized that breaking through the city wall was just the beginning, and the real tragic street battle had not yet begun.

On June 30, 1937, the base camp announced that Prince Hatohiko of the local staff would be transferred back to the strategic section of the local staff headquarters. General Tada Jun took over as the commander of the dispatched army. The arrival of Tada Jun made the originally decadent Japanese army revive.

Asakamiya Hatohiko, who was responsible for the loss of the wing flag, can be said to have left with shame. Although Asahikamiya Hatohiko was still able to enter the staff headquarters, even his identity as a prince, he was doomed to be at the highest decision-making level of the army for life.

It is an incomparable regret for Zhang Xuewu, because one of the two Japanese generals that Zhang Xuewu wants to reimburse most is Gu Shoufu, and the other is his Chaoxiang Gong Jiuyan. This is the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, which was exempted by virtue of his royal status after the war. However, Zhang Xuewu also knows that the time after the day is still long. Well, if the [***] team lands in Japan one day, it will not be too late to liquidate it completely.

Zhang Xuewu also knew that he was also whimsical. Now the capital of his country is not guaranteed, and he is still thinking about landing in the old nest of the Japanese invaders?

Doda Jun, who took office, immediately adjusted the coordination between the various divisions, and temporarily withdrew the 6th Division and 16th Divisions with heavy casualties to Jiangyin for rest and replenishment. 30,000 veterans from the mainland and the Kwantung Army were added to the army, because in the Battle of Nanjing, the army's grassroots officers and veterans were often It is the main target of the [***] sniper's shooting, and Tada Jun pointed his front straight at Zijin Mountain.

Prince Hatohiko's full-scale attack tactic of Asamiya is regarded as an extremely stupid tactic by Tada Jun, especially when attacking a large city such as Nanjing, which is firmly defended by the elite troops. Tada Jun merged the severely damaged 11th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade with the Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, and gathered all the chariots. After all, the five completed infantry brigades under the 13th Division, the 18th Division, the 101st Division and the 1st and 14th Division formed an attack group. With the cooperation of all the heavy artillery firepower and air bombing, they focused on attacking the front line of Zhonghuamen. Tada Jun's tactics were to gnaw the bones one by one.

My tactical adjustment made Zhang Xuewu feel a huge crisis, because from the overall tactics of the Japanese army, he could feel that he had changed the commander, and said that he had made large-scale reinforcements, and the main force of the North China Front Army now attacked Xuzhou after occupying Jinan. The army of the central branch in Nanjing echoed from afar.

The battle situation in Rehe is relatively stable, which reassures Zhang Xuewu and captures a wing flag of the Japanese army. Originally, it was a happy thing, but the comprehensive tactical adjustment of the Japanese army diluted Zhang Xuewu's joy a lot. He has filled in two brigades in the direction of Zhonghuamen, such a narrow city defense. In the war area, the defenders were bombarded by the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, and it was almost consumed by a regiment for an hour.

Because the Japanese army used the means of heavy artillery and bombing, the chariots covered the repeated assault tactics of the infantry. During the day, Zhang Xuewu's heavy artillery troops deployed in Jiangbei did not dare to fire, and the mobile artillery regiment could not move. The battle situation was very passive. In order to reverse this passive situation, Zhang Xuewu's mobile artillery The regiment's rocket artillery truck is based on bicycles, using jackal light tanks and hound armored vehicles as cover, using the tactic of fighting and running, and fighting guerrillas with him near Zhonghuamen.

In the fierce battle of the second day, the wall near the Chinese Gate has been heavily shelled and collapsed in several places by the Japanese army. The two Rehe army brigades led by Hao Wenbin have been playing the role of fire brigades. At the collapsed wall, the two armies launched an extremely fierce battle.

The Japanese army blew up several breakthroughs, but they were all resisted by Hao Wenbin's command of the death squad. This is the first time that Zhang Xuewu has dispatched the death squad in the Nanjing defense battle. Generally, the departure of the death squad represents a critical situation. Because the Japanese army has remained silent in other aspects, Zhang Xuewu did not dare to easily transfer Zijinshan. The reserve team, not to mention the 88th Division, which was withdrawn from Yuhuatai, and the 87th Division, which was withdrawn from **tai, suffered great losses. The remnants of the 88th Division were less than 1,000 people. Zhang Xuewu reorganized it into a regiment as a reserve team.

A part of the Japanese army once broke through the main position of the Chinese Gate and penetrated into the defensive line. In order to eliminate these infiltrating Japanese soldiers, Zhang Xuewu used three gendarmerie regiments. These infiltrating Japanese soldiers were very tenacious and hid in the dark corner to shoot black guns until they were all killed. The regiment also suffered more than 500 casualties in order to eliminate these small Japanese.

Zhang Xuewu was furious and decided to return his body in his own way. The Rehe Legion was equipped with a large number of submachine guns and anti-tank rifles. Using directional steel bead mines and other weapons, they infiltrated the military defense line as a class, made small ambush, and used piecemeal methods. The lost positions during the day relied on infiltration and anti-attacks at night. After taking it back, all the canine teeth of the enemy and our front were intertwined for a while, and the commanders on the front line did not know the so-called boundaries of their positions.

Duo Tianjun is very surprised that Zhang Xuewu can quickly adapt to his tactics and make tactical adjustments extremely quickly, because it requires a very high so-called military literacy, and it requires well-trained subordinates. For the elite parts of the Rehe Army and the Central Army, Tada Jun also has some food. I can't help it, especially the battle along the Zhonghua Gate. The position has to change hands more than a dozen times a day.

The positions occupied during the day are often lost at night, and the [***] gunfire is extremely accurate, especially the terrible hail rocket launcher. Like jackal light tanks and hound armored vehicles, although they have not been completely captured, the wreckage has been transported to Japan and Beijing for research and imitation. System.

What makes Tada Jun very helpless is that he feels that he seems to be walking the old path of Prince Hatohiko, and his tactical rhythm seems to be mastered by the other party? This shocked Tada Jun, and what surprised him more was that his tactical rhythm was more mobilized by the other party? Is Zhang Xuewu's adaptation surname too strong, or is his own tactical loophole too big?

Tada Jun repeatedly read Zhang Xuewu's information hundreds of times. An unknown little guy rose from the Manchurian Incident? Suddenly appeared in front of the world with the image of trying to turn the tide? Its tactical characteristics are very different from the style of many Chinese generals?

In particular, Zhang Xuewu's foresight in the use of new weapons made Tada Jun extremely uneasy. Zhang Xuewu's foresight in strategy shocked many people in the staff headquarters. The Battle of Chengde has now become a classic example of compulsory in the Imperial Army University. It can be said that Zhang Xuewu is I studied myself in the bones, and every step was in front of the Imperial Army, so that 200,000 troops failed to nibble on the city that was less than 20,000 [***]. The imperial army, which was not well prepared, suffered the biggest defeat since the new formation of the Imperial Army in the cold weather, the Battle of Waterloo of the army. Do you still have to repeat Chengde's mistakes in Nanjing?

The level of China's Huangpu Military Academy in the eyes of Tada Jun is only equivalent to that of Lu Xiao of the Japanese Empire, that is, the preparatory course of the non-commissioned officer school. Tada Jun does not think that the Huangpu Military Academy and even the Central Army University can cultivate tactical geniuses and strategists like Zhang Xuewu.

It is amazing that Zhang Xuewu sent a large number of his deployments to study in Germany and the United States, but he personally did not have any relevant study experience? The result of building a car behind closed doors can only be closed and backward. A little Duotian Jun is very clear. Over the years, no matter what the war, the soldiers have loved to add "Battle of National Games" and other words that make Tada Jun's eyes thrilling. In fact, it is because the Japanese is too small, extremely scarce resources, and they can't afford to lose at all.

From the Meiji Restoration's Sino-Japanese War, the Russian War, and even the Manchurian Incident launched by the adventure, to the full-scale punishment war launched for revenge, it seems that every time the Empire is carrying out a huge gamble. As the former Chief of Staff, Tada Jun was originally going to take over the position of commander of the Chinese dispatched army. However, due to the unexpected mistake of Prince Hatohiko of the Imperial Palace, the imperial army and even the royal family were greatly humiliated.

The work that Tada Jun has to do is to deal with the aftermath for His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Imperial Palace, which is commonly known as wiping his buttocks. He didn't expect that the honor of winning the Chinese capital would fall on his head? This is also what Tada Jun had never dreamed of before. In contrast, the position of the commander of the Chinese dispatched army seems irrelevant. Tada Jun's target is the marshal, but the marshal of the Imperial Army is very strict with his qualifications, even to the point of harshness.

In addition to requiring innocence and making great contributions to the empire, he must have served in the position of three chiefs in his personal resume, or served as the emperor's former military aide-in-camp. What Tada Jun needs now is the great honor of capturing Nanjing, the capital of China.

Tada Jun believes that as long as he can bring enough killing and injury to Zhang Xuewu's garrison, Zhang Xuewu will retreat. Under the conditions of unfavorable conditions, Zhang Xuewu's troops will give up Nanjing Beidu, but a few fierce attacks have also shaken Tada Jun's original plan.

Zhonghuamen has become history in the history of Nanjing. Few of the city walls are complete. The five infantry brigades attacked by the Japanese army constantly attacked each of the previously identified breakthrough points with brigades, while the Chinese defenders braved the fierce artillery of the Japanese army to resist desperately. It was said that the 75 mm artillery of the two armies. They all used the tactics of bayonets, and almost bombarded each other at zero distance.

From time to time, the army's 150mm heavy howitzer will carry out a round of suppression shooting. It is said that my shells will also be transported across the sea. Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace is not a home. He doesn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive. He can seem to be afraid to ask for logistics. It is clear that the real family of the empire is not Without scruples, every shell is very precious.

(to be continued)