I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Jiang Weiguo couldn't help sighing again: "A military strategist is a military strategist! Analyzing the problem hits the nail on the head and hits the nail on the head!"

"Therefore..." Bai Chongxi said, "On the battlefield in North China, the national army will fight with heavy troops, and in the battlefield in East China, the national army will fight with elite troops.

In fact, sending the national army's German weapon divisions and the elite of the Central Army to the North China battlefield can further deceive the Japanese, making the Japanese mistakenly think that we are going to launch a strategic decisive battle with them in North China. When the troops were transferred to the North China battlefield, they would misjudge that East China's defenses were empty, thus luring the Japanese to 'take advantage of the gap'.

Chairman, I have a suggestion of 'clearly build plank roads, and keep dark places'.

That is, every unit that went north to participate in the war quietly left some elite troops, such as a German weapon division. The main battalion, the officers and soldiers of the battalion were replaced by the reserve army or reserve army officers and soldiers, and the main battalion was secretly and scattered in East China.

In this way, the Japanese will see that the national army has more and more unit numbers on the North China battlefield, such as thirty divisions. The Japanese will think that these thirty divisions are full, but in fact there are 120 main battalions Stay in East China and be ready to join the East China battlefield at any time. On the one hand, the Japanese overestimated our strength on the North China battlefield, and on the other hand underestimated our strength on the East China battlefield. The East China battlefield will not really fall into the predicament of overstretched troops!"

"Good!" Chiang Kai-shek nodded again and again, "Good way!"

Jiang Weiguo also felt that this method was really good.

Bai Chongxi added: "Personally, I do not support the national army's strategic decisive battle with the Japanese army. This approach itself has violated our war strategy of 'protracted war of attrition'.

Our side should implement flexible tactics such as 'accumulating small victories for big victories, exchanging space for time', 'developing guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, and cooperating with regular warfare in front of enemy lines'.

To eliminate the vital force of the Japanese army, we should not be too eager for success, because we have time to spend slowly with the Japanese!"

"Our country is not afraid of swallowing whales, but is afraid of encroachment!" Jiang Baili added earnestly.

"By the way! Father, all the officers!" Jiang Weiguo remembered one thing, "There is another very important thing, which is the order of the Shanghai National Army when it launches a retreat.

Hundreds of thousands of troops can continue to stand on the front line. Once ordered to retreat, the troops will scramble to escape in all likelihood, then lose command and order, and eventually turn into a real defeat and chaos.

In my opinion, when the time comes to withdraw the troops, it is necessary to have a clear division of labor and alternate batches, so as to ensure order, and to set up a "contact node" and a "local command organization" on the way of the troops' retreat to coordinate the operation of this major event! "In the original history, at the end of the Battle of Songhu, the units of the Shanghai National Army immediately swarmed back after receiving the retreat order, and the order was in chaos. The first line of defense collapsed at the first touch before the flood of chaos and was useless.

"Well, it makes sense!" Chiang Kai-shek nodded repeatedly.

"Second Young Master's proposal is very prescient!" Liu Fei looked at Jiang Weiguo and praised, "I heard that Second Young Master was responsible for Nanjing's city defense. Chairman, Second Young Master's vision is really far-sighted!"

Jiang Weiguo smiled: "General Liu has won the prize!"

Jiang Baili concluded: "The core essence of the Shanghai campaign is "enough is enough" as Wei Zhang said. The detailed division can include three points. The first is to strike first, the second is to accept when it is good, and the third is to retreat completely!"

Several strategists and military strategists became more and more excited as they talked (Chiang Kai-shek is essentially a politician, and he can barely be considered a strategist and military strategist; Jiang Weiguo is not a military strategist or a statesman at all, but he is a "genius strategist") , This dinner lasted for three hours.

In fact, the significance of this dinner was extraordinary in all aspects. Although the conversation during the meal was just "chat", it was to determine China's strategic national policy in the ensuing war of resistance against Japan.

As a participant of the "dinner meeting", Jiang Weiguo actively made suggestions and revealed a lot of "prophetic secrets" hidden in his stomach. On the one hand, Bai Chongxi, Jiang Baili, and Liu Fei were very surprised and amazed. His face is bright (because these three military masters and Yang Jie all more or less opposed him, and even ridiculed him as "only playing tricks, and he is an amateur in strategy and military affairs", Jiang Weiguo said again and again Astonishing, won the surprise and admiration of Bai Chongxi and the three, and naturally brought glory to Chiang Kai-shek), most importantly, Jiang Weiguo continued to make up for the mistakes or shortcomings that the national army had committed in the original history:

"The Battle of Shanghai will be a joint battle between the army, navy and air force, and the level of cooperation between the different branches of the national army needs to be improved!"

"In addition to the cooperation between the arms, the cooperation between the arms is also very important, such as infantry, artillery, armored forces, etc.!"

"Luodian, Baoshan, Yuepu, and Yunzaobang are likely to become important land strongholds after the war begins!"

"The follow-up troops of the Japanese reinforcements to Shanghai should land at Wusongkou, Shizilin, and Chuanshakou!"

"It is very likely that the Japanese army will launch a large-scale landing in the Jinshanwei area of ​​​​Hangzhou Bay in the later stages of the war, so as to outflank the general rear of the Shanghai National Army and block all the Shanghai National Army on the beach!"

"There is no need to defend the Jiangyin fortress, but the navy must lay mines on a large scale in the Yangtze River!"

During the three hours of this dinner, Bai Chongxi, Jiang Baili, and Liu Fei each expressed their opinions in the first hour. Chiang Kai-shek asked questions from time to time, but Jiang Weiguo basically did not speak, and listened honestly. , the protagonist of the dinner completely became Jiang Weiguo, Jiang Weiguo talked eloquently, and Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi only had to ask questions, interject, nod, and wonder and marvel at Jiang Weiguo in their hearts.

"I thought that the deeds of the little second Jiang and the achievements on the front line in Pingjin were all boasted by Lao Jiang. Only after meeting him that night did I realize that this little second Jiang is really not simple! Unexpectedly, Lao Jiang actually Can give birth to such a talented son!" This is what Bai Chongxi said when he met Li Zongren again later, it is not an easy thing for him who is quite arrogant and conceited to say the words "extraordinary talent" , and, because of Bai Chongxi's words, Jiang Weiguo got the special title of "Little Second Chiang" in the military and political circles of the state government. Xiaoer Jiang).

Chapter 149 Total War (1)

Fight!All-out war!In the summer of [-], the unbearable China uttered a thunderous roar.

On the railways, highways, and dirt roads from East China and Central China to North China, the Chinese troops marching northward to join the war converged into a long winding dragon with endless streams and dust. Some officers and soldiers can only rely on their legs and their enthusiasm for serving the country, wearing stars and moons, eating and sleeping in the open to the front line.

Every time the army passed through a town or village, the citizens and villagers came out to hear the news, handing over cigarettes, wine, cakes, fruits, and local specialties to the army with enthusiasm and kindness, and beating gongs and drums to encourage the soldiers to march bravely. The soldiers fought bravely on the front line and beat the Japanese pirates hard.

The railway stations of Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuhan, Luoyang, Zhengzhou and other transportation hub cities were all surrounded by people who helped the old and the young, who rushed over to see the army off. Like thunder and voices, the huge din suppressed the roar of the train's machinery, and all kinds of consolation items for the soldiers rained down on the heads of the expedition troops or in the train carriages. The enthusiastic students and young people Waving flowers and national flags, chanting various patriotic slogans.

Officers and soldiers who boarded the train and prepared to go to the front waved their military caps to bid farewell to their fathers and villagers. There were grizzled parents seeing off their sons everywhere, young women hugging their children and seeing off their husbands. There are many broken grounds one after another, but there are more righteous scenes where relatives encourage officers and soldiers to "kill the enemy bravely and return safely".

A soldier sighed: "After more than ten years of fighting, I have never seen the common people send off like this!"

The soldier next to him said: "Of course! In the past, the Chinese fought against the Chinese, and my own family fought in the nest. Now it is against the Japanese devils. The situation is different!"

The mobilization of millions of troops made China's still backward transportation network unprecedentedly busy, even overwhelmed, and the transportation capacity was extremely tight, but the people spontaneously and bravely put the "military first".

At Xuzhou Railway Station, a civilian train had already started, and a certain unit of the national army assembled by the railway station was in a hurry because there was no train. soldiers.

"Let the army get on the bus first!" "Fighting devils is more important than anything else!" said the passengers.

There is a folk saying in Hebei Province called "the ruffians in Dingzhou, the legs in Baoding", which means that Dingzhou's public security is very poor and there are many ruffians, and because Baoding is the capital of Hebei Province at this time, it has been infiltrated by the Japanese for a long time, so the traitors of the second devil a lot of.

When a certain unit of the national army passed through Baoding, the traitors followed the troops to sabotage and opened fire to create chaos. The Handan peasants recruited in the army were frightened and fled. Just as the national army was anxious for a large amount of food, equipment, and supplies, no one helped them. During the transportation, the farmers who had escaped came back one after another to continue to help carry supplies for the troops.

Most of these peasants were illiterate, but they knew very honestly that their army was going to the front to fight against the Japanese devils.

The Chinese Air Force field airports in Beiping, Baoding, Taiyuan, Linfen, Luoyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, Changsha, Nanchang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jianqiao and other places were activated one after another, and waves of BF-109 fighter jets with blue sky and white sun military emblems sprayed on their wings screamed Fly across the sky and fly to the frontline battlefield.

In the cockpit, the young Chinese Air Force pilots are all full of ambition and high morale.

In the southern part of the Yellow Sea and the northern part of the East China Sea, warships of the Chinese navy are mobilizing in an orderly manner. Some warships sail into the Yangtze River, ready to go, and they are ready to go. Some warships sail into Hangzhou Bay, ready to go.

Under the surface of the dense sea, submarines appear and disappear like ghosts and ghosts; on the surface of the surging sea, groups of torpedo boats cut through the waves like arrows leaving the string.

Inside and outside the ancient Shanhaiguan Pass, convoys of cars loaded with Japanese troops and ordnance supplies rolled out like giant pythons and dragons to the front lines of Pingjin, and the ostentatious "Kwantung Army Song" resounded throughout the loess land of China.

On the border between China and North Korea, Japanese troops crossing the Yalu River in batches from the territory of the Korean Peninsula to China.

In the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, Japanese fleets braved the wind and waves recklessly, cruising swaggeringly in China's territorial waters, with large-caliber naval guns aimed at the Chinese land, and transport ships unloaded at Qinhuangdao, Changli, Tangshan and other Chinese ports controlled by the Japanese army. A large amount of supplies and a large number of soldiers were dispatched.

All countries in the world eagerly set their sights on East Asia, where the flames of war began to burn. Special envoys from the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy and other major powers and representatives of the League of Nations traveled between Nanjing and Tokyo one after another, "calling for peace, mediate the war".

At the negotiating table, Chinese and Japanese diplomats fought with each other and argued with reason.

The Tokyo side aggressively accused the Nanjing government of "deliberately provoking and provoking war" and demanded that the Chinese side return to the wrong path in time.

The Nanjing side sternly refuted the Tokyo government's "distorting black and white, and talking about the sword", and asked the Japanese side to rein in the precipice in time.

While launching political, diplomatic, and propaganda wars, the two sides are intensively deploying troops and generals, preparing for a bloody war.

On the Pingjin battlefield, the ground forces of both sides were accumulating strength before the war, and the air forces of the two sides had already launched a long-air confrontation (the naval forces of both sides followed the Chinese navy’s retreat without a fight and let the Japanese navy win without a fight).

In the sky in the north, waves of Japanese planes with the military emblem of the Rising Sun on their fuselages came murderously like a pack of wolves; in the sky in the south, waves of Chinese Air Force planes with the military emblem of the blue sky and white sun on their fuselages were as brave as eagles against.

In the eyes of hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides and millions of people in Pingjin and Hebei (East Hebei), the aircraft fleets of the two sides clashed fiercely. The dazzling stream of bullet fire like wild flowers, the dense fire light like stars makes the clouds look red like burning.

The fighter planes of both sides flying at high speed, maintaining maneuverability and firing with all their strength caused the whole sky to become agitated. The tongues of flames criss-crossed like electric welding arcs. In the thunder and lightning, the downed planes dragged billowing smoke and fell from the sky like meteorites. The plane that was hit by the fuel tank exploded in the air like a huge salute, turning into dazzling fireballs in the sky and countless fragments flying like fairies.

The parachute pilots of both sides bloomed white umbrella flowers one after another in the boiling sky and earth, forming a magnificent scene of war together.

At this time, the Japanese army and navy have a total of about 3000 aircraft, which is much more than the Chinese Air Force. However, the Japanese Air Force has a complete range of aircraft, including fighter jets, bombers, transport aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft. According to the "fighter first, fighter only" route, four out of five aircraft are fighter jets.

This development strategy is "very biased", but it is very correct and very effective. Although the Chinese Air Force does not have the ability to attack the Japanese army in the air, it has the air combat capability to compete with the Japanese army for air supremacy. It is very useful (because of the lack of bombers), but it can prevent the Japanese bombers from bombing the Chinese army's ground forces recklessly.

To put it bluntly, the Chinese Air Force could not bomb the Japanese army, but at the same time it could prevent Japanese aircraft from bombing its own army.

The sky on the Pingjin front line has become a glorious stage for the fighter pilots of the Chinese Air Force to flex their muscles.

Only in the 20 days in the middle and late July after the July 100th Incident, the Chinese Air Force shot down more than 11 Japanese aircraft on the Pingjin front, half of which were fighter jets and half of which were bombers.

The Fourth Aviation Brigade of the Chinese Air Force is the main force in the air battle in Pingjin. The whole brigade has become an air hero praised by the whole country. The commander of the brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Gao Zhihang, is even more "invincible". In July, he shot down 25 Japanese planes in total and gained a great reputation He was well-known overseas and was commended by Chiang Kai-shek himself. He was promoted to Colonel of the Air Force and awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal.

Gao Zhihang's bf-109 fighter jet had the three Chinese characters "September [-]" written in black paint. It was originally used by him to motivate himself to work hard, but it soon became a unique symbol.

The Japanese pilots were terrified of Gao Zhihang, "After seeing the bf-109 with the three characters 'September 7' written on the fuselage, they knew that Gao Zhihang, China's number one ace pilot, was sitting in the plane, so they turned around and fled. In the battle of the Japanese army, some Japanese pilots even said when they swore, "If I lie, I will meet Gao Zhihang next time I go to the sky." Japan lamented that "Gao Zhihang single-handedly defeated the Imperial Army Aviation Corps mentally." The pilots also nicknamed Gao Zhihang "Flying Yasha". Since Gao Zhihang shot down eight Japanese planes in a row on July 20, Soong Meiling proposed to designate July 8 as the Chinese Air Force Day (originally August 7, because of the results of the August 20 air battle).

In an interview with reporters, when Gao Zhihang was asked "Who are you most grateful for?" he said very emotionally: "I thank General Zhang Xueliang first. Without his support, I would not embark on the path of serving the country through aviation. My second thanks to General Zhou Zhirou, without his cultivation, I would not have the opportunity to serve the country by aviation, and my third and most grateful is the second son (Jiang Weiguo), without his dedication, I would not have the opportunity to serve the country by aviation Ability.

The second son provided me with the best aircraft, enough funds, and enough fuel so that I could practice flying skills and air combat skills hard.

Now I understand the original intention and good intentions of the Second Young Master who tried everything possible to get us bf-109, and I also deeply appreciate his sincere love for me and our Air Force pilots!"

With the best pilots who have been tempered for thousands of years, coupled with the world's best fighter jets, the fighter force of the Chinese Air Force is naturally invincible in the sky against foreign humiliation.

After learning of the good news from the Air Force from the North China front, Jiang Weiguo was greatly relieved, and his air force development strategy was proved to be correct by actual combat.

Although we could not see the scene of our own bombers bombing the Japanese positions, seeing our own fighter planes continuously smashing the Japanese aircraft into fireballs that exploded in the air and meteorites that fell to the ground with thick smoke, the officers and soldiers of the national army and the people on the front line of Pingjin were all excited There were thunderous cheers.

On the Japanese side, Lieutenant General Tokugawa Hotoshi, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army's Temporary Air Corps, was reprimanded bloody by General Terauchi, the commander-in-chief of the Dispatch Army. As a result, one's own side could not have air superiority in the next war, and it also greatly dampened the morale and vigor of the ground troops before participating in the war.

On July 7, the General Headquarters of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army was officially established in Tangshan, and more than 25 Japanese troops gathered in Tangshan.

On July 7, the Battle of Pingjin, where the mountains and rivers changed color, officially broke out.

The Battle of Pingjin that broke out on July [-] and [-] is also known as the "First Battle of Pingjin" or "Pingjin War of Resistance", and the Battle of Pingjin that broke out in late July is also known as the "Second Battle of Pingjin" or "Battle of Pingjin", the former is indeed just a battle, while the latter is completely a battle.

In terms of scale, the two sides in the Battle of Pingjin had only 9 or 1.4 troops (the Japanese army had about 70 troops, and the national army had 20 or 50 troops), and the two sides in the Pingjin Battle had as many as [-] troops (the Japanese army had about [-] troops participating in the battle, and the national army had about [-] troops participating in the battle. About [-] troops participated in the war), which is no longer the same.

Japanese commanders: Daiichi Terauchi, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, Lieutenant General Nishio Kozo, Major General Kawabe Shozo, etc.;

Chinese commanders: Admiral Xu Yongchang, Admiral Song Zheyuan, Lieutenant General Xue Yue, Lieutenant General Feng Zhian, Lieutenant General Tang Enbo, etc.;

Before the ground forces of the two armies began a violent confrontation, the air forces of the two sides confronted again, and a large-scale air battle broke out.

At 180:100 in the morning, more than [-] Japanese aircraft formed a mighty air formation and invaded the sky over Pingjin. Two-thirds were fighter jets and one third were bombers. It was a fighter jet, and the two sides launched an air battle with a total of more than [-] aircraft.

In the sky full of thunder and lightning, the Chinese Air Force shot down 19 Japanese aircraft at the cost of self-damaged 123 aircraft, achieving an overwhelming victory.

After the complete victory, the Chinese Air Force fleet flew over Pingjin majestically. Wherever the wings went, there were cheers below.

Among the army, navy and air force, the air force is the most likely to "show off the limelight". The logic is simple: when the army of the country fights the army of the enemy country, and the navy of the country fights the enemy navy, it is difficult for ordinary people to see it with their own eyes. Even if they see it, it is difficult to see the whole situation clearly. The air force is different. When the air force fleet of our country is engaged in an air battle with the enemy fleet, it is in the sky above the common people. The common people look up from the ground and can see clearly, and they can see the entire air battle situation in their eyes.

The process of the Air Force's war is most likely to become a "performance".

Famous war reporter Fan Changjiang was on the front line in Pingjin at that time. He described in his news report: "...when the air defense sirens sounded heart-piercingly, the national army troops in the city hurriedly led the citizens to hide in air-raid shelters or trenches, but most of them Instead of hiding underground, citizens swarmed to the rooftops of high-rise buildings. The rooftops and balconies of every building in Beiping and Tianjin were crowded with citizens, shouting, clapping their hands and feet, and waving the national flag. What are they doing? Look. Our Chinese Air Force kills the enemy and cheers for our own air warriors.

In the sky, there are flashes of lightning, bursts of thunder, and thunderbolts. Hundreds of planes of the enemy and ourselves are entangled, chased, and fought, which makes us dizzy and dazzled.

Everyone was so excited that the whole city was boiling with cheers, cheers, cheers, and sighs rolling up and down like waves. The citizens were extremely excited and excited. This kind of excitement and excitement seemed to be watching a movie. In the ball game, we are the spectators on the side of the court, cheering for ourselves, cheering heartily, and cheering for our players.

When they saw the Japanese aircraft being hit by our aircraft and exploded in the air or fell to the ground with thick smoke, the whole city erupted in earth-shattering cheers in an instant. Or waving hats and applauding desperately, as happy as Chinese New Year; when seeing our military aircraft being destroyed or shot down, the whole city suddenly burst into sighs and regrets, and some women even shed tears of sadness.