From to 1935 2020

That's right, the Red Army on the opposite side was also very cunning, and they also knew that the Japanese army would hide during shelling.Sometimes the false assault horn was blown to lure the Japanese troops who had avoided the shelling back to the front of the position, and then the second wave of shelling came immediately.

There is a difference in the rhythm of the trumpet sound between the false charge and the real charge. Kobayashi heard it on May [-]th, but this time it is the real charge.

Amidst the sound of the cannon, Xiao Lin Wusi touched his pocket and took out seven silver dollars from his pocket. This was the "capture" he had robbed local civilians after the war began. He buried the silver dollars and his own military pay by his side. Buried in a mound of soft soil, he didn't want to leave the money to the Chinese.

"The cherry blossoms in Tokyo have already finished blooming. I probably won't be able to see the cherry blossoms next year..."

We sinners are abandoned sons deliberately abandoned by the upper-level national thieves,

Tokyo, it should be impossible to go back...

After burying the stolen silver dollars in the soil, Kobayashi Wusi suddenly recalled the "evil book" he read before 68, and then recalled the time he was in China. The contents of another "Meiji Restoration [-] Festival".

"Are the emperor and the Chinese people the source of Japan's pain? What we did in China was just to divert our own pain by robbing the Chinese. And most of the things we rob will still be eaten by those national thieves." do..."

The shelling stopped, and Kobayashi May 400 rushed out immediately.Then he saw that [-] meters away from the base position, more enemy troops were scattered like ant colonies, rushing towards his position defense line.This is the arrival of the second wave of offensive support.

And the two opponents who were hiding in the crater in front of him and shooting at him also jumped out of the crater at this time, taking cover alternately, and shooting at him who had just emerged.

Kobayashi looked around on May [-]th, and found that the active figures in his position were a little sparser, and the frequency of machine gun firing also dropped significantly.

Another person died in the shelling.

"Can't you keep it? We are really a group of crazy beasts!"

He suddenly understood something, but he still raised his gun and shot at the opposite Chinese without hesitation.

"You are right, we are a group of beasts, a beast army!"

"Eat people, or be eaten! As a Japanese, as an abandoned citizen, I have no choice!"

He aimed and shot crazily, and the recoil generated when the bullet flew out of the barrel hit his right shoulder, as if a wild beast was biting its prey. He was like a crazy wild beast.

"This is a world where people eat people!"

"We came to China, isn't it just to eat people?"

"Oh!"

His eyes darkened, his left shoulder hurt, and Xiao Lin Wusi flew out obliquely, blood splattering.

Finally got shot!Wild beasts want to eat people, and they deserve to be beaten to death.

"If I surrender, will they be as advertised..."

This was his last thought.

It wasn't the veteran who was shooting at him that smashed him, but the 60 cannons on the T20 tank whose track was broken on the opposite side, smashing half of his body in one shot.

Half an hour later, Wang Xinnian and Lao Lizi stood next to Xiaolin May Fourth's dismembered body, and this position, which the Red Army had paid a great price for, was finally captured.

"It's this little devil who killed at least five of our brothers by himself."

Wang Nian hated his authenticity, and he and his comrades who had rolled in the dirt for a long time looked like mud monkeys.His leader, Lao Lizi, was quietly picking off Xiaolin Wusi's military boots.

The company Wang Niannian belongs to has a total of 100 combat teams and more than 36 people. During the attack on this front, it was supported by a tank, but in the end it took two hours and half of the casualties were paid. After taking this short position, when they checked the battlefield after the war, they only found the bodies of [-] Japanese soldiers.Judging from the abandoned weapons on the battlefield, when they captured the position, they did not completely wipe out the opponent, and some of the opponent still escaped at the last moment.Half of the Japanese soldiers who died were killed by shelling. In terms of the quality of individual soldiers, the Japanese devils in this period were still far above the Red Army.

The next line of defense of the Japanese army is more than 500 meters away...

That night, Wang Xinnian and Lao Lizi were separated. Wang Xinnian, who had become a "veteran", was assigned three young recruits, and now it was his turn to bring in new recruits.

However, he and his recruits were not immediately put into the next battle, but were transferred to the rear for repairs.The tough battle against the Japanese army in Tanggu was more difficult than imagined.

Restricted by the terrain here, it was difficult for the Red Army's tanks to charge up.The tank assault turned into a tank that became a mobile bunker, serving the infantry.When blocked by a shallow river, when there is no bridge and it is difficult to build a bridge, they can only stare blankly—just like this attack on Tanggu, a small river ditch and the Japanese defense line behind the ditch allowed the Red Army tank troops There is nothing that can be done inside - the final solution is to build a dam in the upper reaches of the ditch to block the water, cut off the flow, and then forcefully cross the river.

The well-established defensive positions of the Japanese army also greatly suppressed the artillery advantage of the offensive side.Most of the fighting involved light infantry on both sides firing at each other at a distance of two to 300 meters.

The Red Army attacked the besieged Japanese army, and the daily advance distance was only a few hundred meters at the shortest time.

That night, the two veterans, who had retired to rest for reorganization, held a meeting in the battalion at the rear with newly recruited recruits: a combat review meeting.Sitting beside them were several tank soldiers.Thanks to the reckless "stacking" of the T[-] tanks, although the two T[-] tanks parked on the front line received a bunch of shells at the front and back, and all the running gear was damaged, the tank soldiers on the vehicles only suffered some "golden armor". Bell Concussion Damage".

Their injured tanks are currently being repaired, and they are currently staying here to discuss the topic of infantry and tank combat with the coordinated infantry.Although Huang Ke and the Soviet instructors took out a lot of textbooks to teach related skills, there are some things that can only be truly mastered after personal experience.

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-------------------- Chapter 222 Politics Influences the Military --------------------

After April, the Red Army and the Northeast Army signed an agreement that the large area on both sides of the Huaihe River and north of the Yangtze River belonged to Jiangsu's territory, which was "gifted" by the Red Army to Zhang Xueliang for management.

Since September [-]th, Zhang Xueliang, who has been suffering from "no land to stand on", sent troops to take over the land of Lianghuai immediately with great gratitude.

Staying in Yangzhou City, the most affluent city in Jiangbei, Zhang Xueliang still felt like a dream. It took him a full seven days to confirm that he really "picked up" the land of Lianghuai.

After the Battle of Shanxi, although the Northeast Army captured several Hebei cities such as Baoding and Shijiazhuang, the front, back, left, and right were either the territory of the Red Army or the 29th Army. There was no room for expansion at all, just like what Huang Ke said to Zhang Xueliang. From the past, his situation has just evolved from "a place without a cone" to a "place with a cone", which is a little better.

After obtaining a large area of ​​land in Lianghuai, the Northeast Army really had a shelter.Soon, Zhang Xueliang moved most of his Northeast Army from Hebei to Lianghuai.When the war started in early April, in the entire Hebei region, he left only Wang Yizhe's 67th Army, and a new reserve army of 3 people in Baoding and Shijiazhuang that he had recruited. Zhang Xuesi, his younger brother, controlled the other troops, and he basically brought them to the Lianghuai area.

After the Battle of Huainan, a large number of Chang Kaishen's air force defected. Huang Ketuo and Zhang Xueliang came forward to use his network to borrow air force personnel from the Northeast under Chang Kaishen's command to do ideological work.Most of these uprising pilots voted for the Red Army, and a small number were taken over by Zhang Xueliang. Overnight, Zhang Xueliang also had more than 20 aircraft in his hands. The number is not too many, but it is much better than before when only the "air" army was left. up.

After Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army occupied the two Huaihe Rivers in April, it received more than a dozen T2 tanks from the Red Army. The shelf of the armored soldiers.

Recalling that after September [-], he was humiliated and played by Chang Kaishen like a grandson in front of Chang Kaishen. Compared with Li Runshi's "magnificence", he stayed in Yancheng Airport and watched the PO[-] trainer planes flying by. He said gratefully to the people around him again and again: "The Communist Party is really loyal!"

When the Red Army and the Japanese fought in Pingjin, many warlords in the north, except Song Zheyuan, who had succumbed, and Fu Zuoyi, who was "close to each other" with the Red Army, Zhang Xueliang was the most active in supporting the Red Army.He took the initiative to send a telegram to Li Runshi, repeatedly stating that as long as the country needs it, his Northeast Army can go north to support at any time.Not only that, but he also offered to transfer the air force in his hands to the Red Army.After experiencing so many things, Zhang Xueliang has completely surrendered to the Communist Party in spirit.In fact, this second-generation ancestor never had the pride and ambition to be the boss. He lacked assertiveness. After Huang Ke built an information cocoon beside him, all his actions were actually pushed by the general trend around him and led by the people around him.

While expressing his gratitude for this, Li Runshi persuaded him to stay put for the time being, and at the same time strengthen the combat readiness in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas to prevent the Japanese army from directly launching an aggressive offensive in the Yangtze River area through the sea route.

After the war broke out in the Pingjin area, Wu Hao, a representative of the Red Army stationed in the Northeast, who was about to go south to Nanjing, told Zhang Xueliang face to face when passing by Yangzhou:

"Actually, before April [-]th, we obtained information from the Japanese military department through our relationship. The Japanese originally planned to invade China from the Songhu area, take the south of the Yangtze River first, and eat away at China. The chairman chose this time to raid the troops stationed in Pingjin. , it was launched to disrupt their strategic layout. The current situation shows that the Japanese attention is temporarily attracted to the north, but you must remember not to be negligent! The defense in the Songhu area is too weak now, and no one can I know if the Japanese troops stationed in Songhu will suddenly go away alone, and then expand the battle in the south of the Yangtze River."

different from history.At the beginning of the outbreak of the Songhu Battle in history, the Japanese troops in this area were quite weak.On August 3000th, at the beginning of the Shanghai area, there were only more than 8 Japanese troops stationed in China plus armed expatriates. On August 22, the Japanese army decided to increase its troops to Shanghai, and then transported them by sea. By the [-]nd, the first batch of reinforcements arrived, and tens of thousands of troops were added in a short period of time. (It only takes two days to ship by sea)

As for this plane, since the Japanese had already formulated the "southward" policy before the war, they originally planned to find Chang Kaishen or Chen Jitang when the war started in early April.They have prepared in advance, and have been secretly increasing their troops on the pretext of China's unstable situation and opposition to the threat of the Communist Party.

During the more than ten days when the Chang Kaishen government collapsed in April, its troops stationed in Shanghai increased to 7000 people, and under the pretext of "protecting the overseas Chinese," they occupied a large area in the suburbs of Shanghai for the garrison.At that time, the Chinese garrison in Shanghai was limited by the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" in 1932. There was no regular army, and there were only some security forces in this area. (In fact, they are all regular troops under the banner of the security regiment)

However, these security forces were all transferred to the regular army before the Huainan Battle, and ended with the disastrous defeat of the Huainan Battle. The security regiments that remained in Shanghai were basically empty shells and ostentatious appearances.The Japanese were easily located along the coast of the Songhu area, staking their land everywhere, and controlled a large area suitable for landing operations by seaborne troops.

At this time, the British were also afraid of the Communist forces entering Shanghai and expressed acquiescence to the actions of the Japanese army.The Americans, on the other hand, pretend to be stupid and remain neutral with ulterior motives.As for Chang Kaishen's regime, things were going downhill at the time, and the collective thought of running away or taking on a new thigh.Without restraint, the Japanese army stationed more and more troops around Shanghai day by day.

As for Chen Jitang, who just came to power and took charge of Nanjing, although he knew the tricks and tricks that the Japanese were playing, but when he just took charge of Nanjing, his energy was all entangled in the settlement of the surrounding hills, and he had no spare energy to provoke the Japanese. ?

After the big fight in the Pingjin area, Chen Jitang's mood was even more complicated, full of surprise, joy, and fear.

Needless to say, I am surprised, but I am happy to think that the Chinese (Communist Party) and the Soviet Union are fighting with the Japanese army in Northeast China. The attention of the Japanese must be attracted to the north, and he is safe in the south.But the fear is the fear that the Japanese will go to war in the south regardless of everything, and open up another battlefield.

On April [-]th, when the battle was in full swing in the north, Zhang Xueliang, who was only across a river from Nanjing, was invited by Chen Jitang to go to Nanjing to discuss matters.After taking over Nanjing, Chen Jitang also realized the danger in the Songhu area.Wei Lihuang's and Tang Enbo's troops who surrendered to him, not only kept them, but also placed them in the area between Hangzhou and Shanghai as a defensive shield.Not only that, but Chen Jitang also moved to Nanjing in large numbers, the Air Force, his lifeblood.Calling Zhang Xueliang to the south to discuss matters is to discuss with him the topic of defense (anti-Japanese) in the Liangjiang area in private.

During this period, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there were only four forces with the right to speak: Gong, Feng, Gui, and Yue. On the 21st, Zhang Xueliang and Wu Hao crossed the river together and entered Nanjing City, where they discussed matters behind closed doors with Chen Jitang and Li Zongren.The content is still the same: divide their respective defense zones, eliminate conflicts with each other, and at the same time discuss the cooperation between the two sides and the responsibilities they should bear in case the Japanese army invades south.

During this period, the four families cooperated with each other in a friendly and tacit understanding over the past year, and completed the great cause of "dividing the Chang family among the four families".Except for some "contradictions" between Chen Jitang and Li Zongren, the current situation among the other companies is fairly harmonious.In addition, the Communist Party knows the old background of these warlords very well, and knows how to make some superficial "concessions", so the meeting went smoothly.

On April 24, after the four families finished discussing some future cooperation agreements, Wu Hao and Zhang Xueliang crossed the Yangtze River together on the Zhongshan ship and returned to the Northeast Army garrison.

At this time, there was no Japanese warship on the Yangtze River.After the war broke out, all Japanese warships on the Yangtze River escaped without missing a single ship.If Chen Jitang had been tougher then, there would have been a great chance of keeping these ships.When Wu Hao and Zhang Xueliang crossed the river together, the sky above their heads was escorted by several planes, which were fighter jets sent by Chen Jitang.After the war in the north, Chen Jitang actually felt the danger in the Songhu area.

On the afternoon of the 25th, the two drove to Yancheng Airport together. Their purpose was to see off the pilots who were about to take off here to bomb Japan.

At this time, at Yancheng Airport, four DB-3 bombers were parked in a row.

When Zhang Xueliang and Wu Hao arrived at the airport, it was already late at night, and they were going to see off the pilots who bombed Japan.

Historically, on May 1938, 5, the Kuomintang Air Force dispatched two B20 Martin bombers to take off in Ningbo to refuel and take off on an expedition to Japan, dropping more than 10 million leaflets.

But this time, although the Red Army has a total of 12 B10 Martin bombers "aided" by Chang Kaishen, when this plane bombed Japan, it used the DB-3 bombers aided by the Soviet Union. The performance of this aircraft is better, the cruising speed is 30 kilometers faster, and the maximum speed is as high as 439 kilometers per hour-even surpassing the Japanese fighter jets of this period.

Two of the DB-3 bombers were piloted by Soviet pilots, and two were Red Army pilots trained in the Soviet Air Force. The four planes had a total of twelve crew members.In order to reduce weight, except for the rear-firing machine gun on the back of the aircraft, all other weapons of the four aircraft, even the external bomb racks, were removed.

At one o'clock in the afternoon that day, Zhang Xueliang and Wu Hao shook hands with the pilots one by one at the airport, took a group photo, and then watched the plane take off and leave.Among the four planes, two of the crew members were from Northeast China (machine gunners).

On the evening of the 25th, the lights here in Nagasaki, Japan are still brightly lit

Although Japan has fought with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party in the Northeast and North China in this era, and the Kwantung Army was severely damaged by the Soviet Red Army in seven days. Three divisions, but because the two sides have not yet declared war, Japan, which has a weak domestic "war crisis" People, still did not turn off the curfew.

Because of their geographical location, both Nagasaki and Kagoshima counties were important ports when the Japanese army invaded China.After the battle in North China and Northeast China on April [-], these southern ports became even more lively.A large number of cargo ships were loaded with devil soldiers and military supplies, which were continuously transported to China by sea.

On the evening of the 25th, Toshishiro Obata happened to be drinking and chatting with an old friend in a tavern near Nagasaki Port.

The sake and seafood on the table were delicious, but whether it was Toshishiro Obata or the drinker opposite, both of them were only in the mood of drinking alcohol, but had no appetite for seafood.

"Kiichi-kun, the great quagmire of China, the empire has finally jumped into it!"

"This is no longer a quagmire, this is an out-and-out pit of fire! The Soviet Union has taken action, and they have been actively involved from the beginning. This will be a more difficult war than the Russo-Japanese War. Regardless of victory or defeat, the empire You won't get any benefit from it."

"You're right, even if we barely win, all we can get is a terrible war debt, just like 30 years ago!"

It was Kita Ikki who had just been released who was sitting and drinking with Toshishiro Obata.

Historically, Kita Ikki was executed less than a month after the July [-]th Incident by Emperor Seinin.And in this plane, although he has been in prison, he has always received preferential treatment in prison.Unlike Showa, Emperor Yongren had known Kita Ikki's name for a long time, and he had read several books written by him, so he had no ill feeling towards him.

After the February [-]th Incident, a bunch of Chuuji from the Kodo faction were arrested, but the leader Ando Teruzo and others did not confess to Kita Ikki's participation in the matter, and took all the responsibility for themselves in one go.Because of Huang Ke, Bei Yihui was also interrogated when the Japanese government tracked down Huang Ke's contacts in Japan afterwards.Yongren also read the content of his conversation with Huang Ke later.

Fortunately than Yuan Shishi, when it came to dealing with Bei Yihui, a big shot gave him a hand at a critical moment.

"Bei Yihui had contact with Huang Ke, a senior spy of the Communist Party. The empire needed a special middleman as our liaison with the Communist Party. That Huang Ke had contact with Bei Yihui during his trip to Japan, and he was very good candidates."

The person who said the above words to Emperor Yongren was naturally Saiyuanji Gongwang, and the time of speaking was exactly when the Chinese and Soviet armies were fighting against Japan in Northeast China and North China at the same time.In the past few days, the Japanese army suffered major defeats on both battlefields and suffered heavy losses.The restless Emperor Yongren was worse than his elder brother in this matter. After a little encouragement from Xiyuanji Gongwang, he nodded and agreed to the suggestion of "retaining a channel for contacting the CCP for secret negotiations", and then Bei Yihui was arrested. Amnesty released.

When Bei Yihui was released, in addition to his family members, his "friend" Toshishiro Obata met him in prison.Toshishiro Obata, who was in charge of the training of the Japanese reserve forces, was also extremely pessimistic about the prospect of the war between China, the Soviet Union and Japan. Thinking of the future, the "imperial army" he had trained so hard went out "straight" from his hands and was transported to the China, and then put it in a box and carried it back to Japan "horizontally", Toshishiro Obata felt extremely uncomfortable.

In fact, at this time, there were quite a few senior Japanese officers in the Japanese army who were not optimistic about the prospects of this war, but Toshishiro Obata was the only one who directly described the Chinese battlefield as a fire pit instead of a mud pit.

Toshishiro Obata cursed in front of Kita Ikki:

"It's about this time, the national thieves and rats in the base camp are still fighting for power, still dreaming, and pushing three obstacles and four obstacles! The south strike and the north strike are all stupid dreams! If there is a difference, the south strike China is even more stupid than attacking China from the north! Doing so will only make the imperial army lose faster in China!"

Bei Yihui said: "There is one thing that I don't understand. With Li Runshi's shrewdness, he should be able to see that it is actually more in the interests of the Communist Party for the empire to attack China in the south, but they actually declared war on the empire first in the Pingjin area. It’s really beyond my expectations.”

"I don't understand this matter either. In fact, the empire was willing to maintain a state of peace with the CCP's troops in Jiangbei when the Nanjin plan was implemented! But in this matter, Li Runshi was so aggressive and proactive, we never thought of it."

Bei Yihui also expressed "perplexity".When considering a problem, I always like to fantasize from the "best solution" instead of actively thinking about the "worst" situation. This is the "national habit" of the Japanese in this period, even the two are no exception.

The two discussed current events at the dinner table for a while, and both of them were extremely pessimistic about the prospect of war.After drinking for three rounds, the two left the wine house and staggered down the street.

It is only 09:30 now, and the streets of Nagasaki are still lively. From time to time, you can see army horse dung who are about to go to the Chinese battlefield, drunk and lying on the side of the road.

Suddenly, the ears of the two people heard a humming sound coming from a distance, and the sound became louder and louder. They looked up, using the moonlight and the navigation lights on the plane, they both saw four planes jumping over Sky.

The sound of the propellers was getting closer and louder.Not only the two of them, but even nearby businesses or passers-by looked up at the sky.

The plane flew closer and closer, and the altitude was rapidly decreasing. Soon they passed over the heads of a group of warships in Nagasaki Port. The belly of the plane opened, and some pieces of paper fell down there like snowflakes.

After these planes flew over Changsha, they flew a big "U"-shaped flight path in the air, sprinkled pieces of paper non-stop along the way, and then flew back in the direction they came from.The entire Changsha sky was soon filled with flying and falling white pieces of paper.

"What's going on? Could it be..."

Soon, the paper dropped by the plane in the sky fell to the ground.