Chapter 243 The rapid turn of the defense of Nanjing 3

The departure of the two BF-109Fs led by Gao Zhihang is like a lonely knight facing a strong enemy. After a bloody battle, he still can't win, leaving the battlefield with grief and indignation.

It can be said that in the last air battle that broke out over Nanjing, the Japanese military fighters did not even shoot at the Flying Tigers pilots who were shot down, because in the Battle of Shanghai and the battle for air tying power in Nanjing, the pilots of the two countries who killed red eyes even shot at the pilots who jumped from each other, in order to avoid being hit by the other side. Therefore, most pilots would rather take the risk of waiting until low altitude before opening an umbrella, reducing the downtime.

The last battle of the Flying Tigers brought to the Japanese army as many shock as the Flying Tigers first appeared in the Shanghai battlefield. The Flying Tigers of the Rehe Army of the Chinese Air Force really kicked off the most tragic battle in the defense of Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu knows very well that once the Japanese army completely controls the air sipulation over Nanjing, it will be difficult for him to play a role in the two heavy artillery brigades deployed in Jiangbei and the artillery groups guarded by various fortresses. Without artillery support, the defense of the defenders will be fully passive. Perhaps this moment is the flow of Nanjing's defense war. The beginning of the time of blood.

Due to the failure of the continuous attack on Nanjing, the base camp's staff headquarters has been proposed to replace the replacement of the deputy commander, Prince Hatohiko, at the imperial meeting, to remove his command, but Emperor Hirohito arbitrarily decided to let Hatohiko carry out a general attack.

So Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace also arrived at the front line of Nanjing. In the temporary former enemy headquarters in Niuzhuang, Chaoxiang Palace Hatohiko summoned Shoufu Tani, the commander of the 6th Division, Fujita Jin, the commander of the 3rd Division, Yamamuro Zongwu, the commander of the 11th Division, Yoshika Ryofu, the commander of the 9th Division, and the commander of the 13th Division. Soldier, Nakajima Shogo, the commander of the 16th Division, Ito Masaki, the commander of the 101st Division, Nakajima Sadao, the commander of the 18th Division, Moji Momatsu, the commander of the 11th Division, Chiaki Shigeto, the leader of the Shigeto Detachment, as well as the 5th Brigade, the 7th Brigade and the 11th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, the 17th and the 14th Brigade. The commanders of the 38th and 39th brigades, the 3rd and 4th flight divisions and other units gathered together.

Hatohiko Chaoxiang Gong looked around at the many generals present with a cold face, and slowly took off his white gloves and said, "Your previous attacks on Nanjing City have had an effect, greatly weakening the strength of [***] in Nanjing's garrison, and a large number of killing and injuring the living forces of [***]. I will remind you that [***] The generals who stick to Nanjing are the old enemies of our empire. Zhang Xuewu, who once brought great shame to the empire. The shame of Chengde of Rehe is the shame of the empire and the imperial army. Today, we are destined to completely turn these humiliations into history, let Zhang Xuewu and his army and the capital of China, Nanjing. The city has become history together. There are no fortresses and cities that can't be broken in front of the imperial army, and there are no enemies that can't be eliminated.

Asakamiya Hatohiko quickly walked to the huge military map and said, "Gentlemen! Today, I am very happy to tell you that the main force of the Chinese Air Force has been completely defeated in a series of strikes launched by our army. It was also defeated by the Soviet Union's volunteer aid to China. What is especially worth celebrating is that we have completely annihirate the Flying Tigers of the Rehe Air Force. Now the whole sky in Nanjing is our army and navy. From now on, the army and navy aviation force decided to send all the fighters to search and completely destroy the heavy artillery units in [***] to support the troops to carry out the attack.

Asakamiya Hatohiko paused slightly and continued: "His Majesty the Emperor's imperial order limited our army to occupy Nanjing, the capital of China, within ten days!" Moreover, the base camp and the staff headquarters made major adjustments to the previous strategy, and decided to use the main force of the Kwantung Army to fully attack Zhang Xuewu's headquarters in Rehe, Suiyuan and Chahar, and completely cut off the worries of the empire.

Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace can be said to be shocking. The head of the multiple divisions present and his chiefs of staff one after another. On the one hand, they attacked Nanjing, the capital of China. On the one hand, they attacked Xuzhou with the main force of the North China Front Army to respond to the attack strategy of the troops landing in Qingdao, while Rehe, Suiyuan and Chahar had to attack Zhang Xuewu's Rehe. The corps? Is the empire equivalent to opening up three major battlefields in China at the same time?

Many Japanese generals actually have a skeptical attitude about the sudden attack on Rehe at this time, because the Japanese commanders who have fought with the troops of the Rehe Army in Nanjing will be shocked by the strong and high fighting will of this army.

Attacking Rehe is undoubtedly equivalent to poke a huge hornet's nest. You should know that Zhang Xuewu has operated Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan like an iron plate. The four fortress cities of Chengde, Chaoyang, Zhangjiakou and Chifeng, 150,000 regular troops, up to 200,000 reserve troops, and a large number of heavy artillery. The rapid increase of chariot troops and fighters since the war, especially after the secret assistance of the Soviet Union, Rehe has made a qualitative leap in both industrial development and military aspects.

I'm afraid this is the main reason why the base camp and the staff headquarters are most worried. I'm afraid that only His Royal Highness Hatohiko, the self-respecting prince, doesn't care about this.

According to the instructions of Jun Tada, the commander-in-chief of the General Staff Headquarters, and the decision of the latest meeting of the imperial meeting, the deployment of the Xuzhou campaign troops was adjusted again, with Ningji Okamura as the commander of the fifth army, and the 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 36th Division and the 37th Division under his subordinates. The regiment and the 40th division are assigned to the 6th chariot brigade and the 7th heavy artillery brigade. As the main force of the Central China Front, they quickly advance along the southern line of Jingpu Road. The 2nd Division, the 10th Division and the 20th Division of Itagaki Zhengs attacked from Qingdao to Jinan, cutting off the northern line of Jingpu Road, and the north and south lines will attack Xuzhou.

In North China, the Kwantung Army transferred six main divisions to gather in Jinzhou. The Kwantung Army Flying Division, the Kuda Special Flying Force, the 19 brigades of armored trains, and the two regiments of chariots were also fully deployed and assembled in Jinzhou.

With the 50th Division, the 51st Division, the 55th Division, the 56th Division and the 57th Division, assigned to the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade as the Eighth Army, Meijin Meijiro was the commander and made a fierce attack on the Chaoyang garrison of Zhang Xuewu's army. After the breakthrough, he quickly rushed to Baotou and destroyed Zhang Xuewu's carefully managed Baotou industry. Base.

Take the 60th Division, the 62nd Division, the 63rd Division and the 65th Division as the Chifeng cluster to contain Chifeng, with the 68th Division, the 69th Division, the 70th Division and the 72nd Division as the 9th Army. Tufei Yuanxian was the second commander, and made a comprehensive advance to Chengde towards Zhang Xuewu's army. After attacking Chengde, he attacked in the direction of Suiyuan, and attacked Zhangjiakou with the 80th Division and the 85th Division.

said that I was in the intensive completion of the overall deployment of Rehe, Suiyuan and Chahar. Zhanyang, Wang Chuang and others had already held relevant military meetings, believing that this Japanese army was likely to be bound to win, and its main attack direction might also be the direction of Baotou, so they hurriedly The collected information was submitted to Zhang Xuewu, who was under the command of Nanjing.

Zhang Xuewu, who received the report from Rehe, was also shocked. Zhang Xuewu's first feeling was that he was crazy? Unexpectedly, it was ready to open up three major battlefields at the same time, especially the army invested at least 15 divisions in the deployment of Rehe.

It can be said that I finally can't sit still, because after Zhang Xuewu announced the military embargo and embargo on China through Zhou Ying's secret channels in Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries, he was still able to buy a large number of Mercedes aviation engines, high-power diesel engines, gasoline engines, special alloy steel, and refined oil. , machine tool industrial equipment, rubber, etc., especially the Soviets, while providing a large number of loans in China's political axes, they also secretly provided a low-interest loan of $170 million and a large number of weapons and equipment to Rehe.

And I said that through its secret intelligence channels, I learned that the Soviets had manufactured a kind of 26 to 29 tons for Rehe, equipped with 75 mm artillery and excellent tanks. The German "jade" light tanks equipped by the Rehe Legion have frightened the Japanese army's chariot troops, and then Adding this kind of surname can be more superior and medium tanks with larger tonnage, then the empire's chariot troops will not be their opponents.

Rehe imported a large number of aircraft engines from Germany and used the wind tunnel built by Baotou to continuously improve the BF-109F multi-purpose fighter. In addition to the fact that the aircraft engine cannot be produced by itself, Rehe has been able to assemble the BF-109F multi-purpose fighter that fully meets the German process standards.

The strength of Rehe makes the Japanese side extremely worried. What's more important is that the Japanese side is to destroy the industrial base in Baotou. You can't sit idly by [***] Zhang Xuewu's position. On the other hand, it is to cut off the route of materials to aid China from Suiyuan Dingyuan Camp of the Soviet Union, so that the Soviets can know that the empire is big. The determination to fight against China is.

At the same time, I also want to take advantage of Zhang Xuewu's absence from the Rehe Dragons to launch a comprehensive attack in one fell swoop to completely solve the sword of the Rehe Legion hanging behind it.

However, there are also things they don't know, that is, Xu Guohui of the 1st Division of the Rehe Army, Wang Chuang of the 2nd Division, Zhao Xinyu of the 3rd Division, Hu Zhenglong of the 4th Division, Zhanyang of the 5th Division, plus Tang Zhiqiang's mechanized assault division, as well as Zhang Tianpeng's artillery group and special forces. All of them are under the unified and coordinated command of the staff. Li Xinkai, the chief of staff of the Rehe Legion, and Li Songtao, the senior staff of the Legion, are the think tanks of the Rehe Legion.

Once again, the Germans had made every effort to help Zhang Xuewu improve the staff system of the Rehe Legion. It can be said that the whole system is a miniature version of the German staff system.

Therefore, even if Zhang Xuewu is not in the command position, the Rehe Army has more than a dozen sets of response plans to deal with the attack of the Japanese army. Many of these plans are attack-based and defensive plans that move ahead of the enemy. The purpose is to reduce the pressure in the direction of Nanjing's main battlefield and attract more troops of the Japanese army. As a result, the Japanese army did not dare to easily reinforce the battlefields of North China and Central China.

It can be said that the Rehe Legion has completed comprehensive preparations to meet the enemy at this moment. If Rehe can fight a beautiful annihilation war, it will also be a great excitement for the Nanjing garrison in the bitter battle.

(to be continued)