Chapter 199          The bloody battle in Songhu

Zhang Xuewu knew very well that the *** people could not hold on because of the military force. Although *** carried out pre-war mobilization and formed 65 active divisions and more than 35 reserve divisions, the *** national economic system has not yet been included in the overall strategic mobilization.

In fact, this is a very abnormal economic system, because war is the most important link in the country's overall strategic link. The practice of the people is actually to conceal the fragility of their economy. In order to avoid the early collapse of the economic system, the people can only increase the plunder of North Korea, Taiwan and the three northeastern provinces. Otherwise, with the national strength of the country, it will not be able to support the consumption of more than 100 divisions without transferring to the wartime economic system.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese authorities began to warn civil aviation passenger planes of various countries not to fly to all war areas between China and Japan, otherwise they would be shot down. However, the *** people also made special cases, such as the few Eurasian flights controlled by the United States and the United Kingdom. In short, the *** people were responsible for the dishes. However, facing the absolute advantage of the *** navy, they informed all countries with their status as belligerent countries, prohibiting all military supplies and military supplies from being imported into China. The scope is very wide, and the Chinese government is in disguised, and there is no countermeasure. At this time, the power of the powerful naval power of the *** Empire was finally reflected.

Sure enough, the thing that Zhang Xuewu was most worried about finally happened. On April 6, 1937, after the Battle of Shanghai and Shanghai between China and Japan, the Battle of Shanghai, the largest-scale Battle of Shanghai broke out.

Unlike history, the Shanghai Expeditionary Army was not directly under the military headquarters, but was obeyed by the General Staff Head Office. General Staff Chief Jun Tada directly commanded the Shanghai Expeditionary Army Commander Matsui Ishione. This is a unique command method in Japanese operations, that is, the ultimate embodiment of the staff system. When the division commander was not in the combat command position, the senior staff of the division acted as the commander, rather than the commander of a subordinate brigade who was usually considered.

When the Shanghai Expeditionary Army was first established, Tada Jun pointed his battle target directly at the city of Nanjing, so he sent Deputy Chief of Staff Kanir Ishihara to guide the operation. The Shanghai Expedition Army directly under the jurisdiction of the Third, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Sixth, Eighteenth, One, One-Fourth Division, Shitou Detachment, Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, Communication Team, and Directly Under the Army Station. Instead of the historical sequential draw of troops, it was done in one go, which caused great trouble to the Zhongzhao team, which was increasing its troops and intending to use its troops one after another.

In Zhang Xuewu's view, the policy of the United States should be strived to maintain a friendly relationship with the United States, because the people of the United States are very clear that although Manchuria has abundant coal and iron resources, it lacks the most important strategic resources, oil and rubber. These important strategic resources are controlled by the Americans and British in Southeast Asia, so they must not turn against the US government unless they have to. As long as they do not turn against the United Kingdom and the United States, the United States, which pursues a loneliness policy and the United Kingdom, which pursues an appeasement policy, will abide by the existence of Manchuria, because there is a Manchuria controlled by the United Kingdom and the United States, which just eliminates the worries of communism going south for Britain and the United States.

In fact, in the early 1930s, there was a plan for the navy and army to jointly capture Wuhan. However, given that the strength of the central government in Nanjing in China has been strengthened, the plan was forced to give up the plan to capture Wuhan once war started, because that was not allowed by the national strength.

However, the combat power of the *** team in the north and south is not echoed by the north and south. It has heavily blocked the Rehe Lehe Legion, made it useless, cut off the north and south of the Pacific Han, Jingpu and Zhengtai Road, and the overall strategy of force under the city of Nanjing is still allowed for the national strength of the *** Empire. It takes a certain time to occupy and eliminate unstable factors and stabilize the international situation. People who are still clear in the country have already realized that it is impossible to completely destroy China within six months to one year, and *** may be dragged into the quagmire of a protracted war and cannot extricate themselves.

Twenty nautical miles outside the entrance of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, more than a dozen destroyers are strictly protecting the flagship Izumo battleship, the flagship of China's fleet, and from time to time, there are also three-air formations of Type 95 naval fighters cruised by. Obviously, today seems to be a big day for the *** people.

In the conference that the Izumo *** people themselves think is luxurious and luxurious, the base camp special envoy Lieutenant General Asakamiya Hirahiko, commander of the Shanghai Expedition Army General Matsui Ishione, deputy commander of the General Staff Headquarters, Kanir Ishihara, commander of the 10th Army Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 3rd Division Lieutenant General Fujita, chief of staff Colonel Tasuo Tasuo, commander of the 6th Division Lieutenant General Seosuo, chief of staff Colonel Shinono, chief of staff Colonel Shinono, commander of the 11th Division Yama, commander of the 11th Division

Lieutenant General Muromoto, Chief of Staff Colonel Kamamura, Lieutenant General Sadao Nakajima, Chief of the 18th Division, Colonel Kotomi, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Masaki ***, Chief of the 101st Division, Chief of Staff Colonel Nishiyama Fukutaro, Chief of the 114th Division Lieutenant General Shimaji Mitsumatsu, Chief of Staff Sanro Isoda, Major General Chiaki Shigefumi, Chief of the Shibu Fukui Detachment, Major General Shibuki Chiaki, Commander of the Third Flight Division of the Army Air Force, and others gathered together.

The entire conference room was filled with flattery words, and almost all the Japanese generals were congratulating King Hikarihiko Asakamiya and Ishione Matsui. Although the war ahead was extremely unsuccessful, they were planning to draw troops from the 10th Army to hit the weak point from the landing side of Hangzhou Bay, the atmosphere at this moment seemed to be celebrating victory.

Among all, only Ishihara Kanir was very calm. Ishihara Kanir looked at the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division next to him and smiled slightly, "Ishihara Kanir is always good? I'm so shaking my body?"

Iron Mandarin hurriedly saluted and said with gratitude: "Thank you, the Deputy Minister for your care. Everything is fine, but I am not very comfortable with the weather in the south. I miss Manchuria!"

The commander of the 11th Division, Yamamoto Sobu, was a little dissatisfied with Ishihara Kanir, so he said to his chief of staff, Tamura Shiba, "Ishihara is becoming more and more arrogant. I say a few words to him. It makes people angry when he looks like he is willing to give it to others. Who is the colonel over there? They seem to be very familiar with it?"

Katamura Siba glanced at Tomiya Tetano and smiled slightly and said, "Your commander of the division, don't you know? That guy is the famous Tomiya Tetano! He secretly went to the detonator of Emperor Fengtian Gutun, Manchuria to kill Zhang Zuolin. He is a famous radical faction! But after the 22-6 incident, they became much more honest. If it weren't for Tojo Hideki, these people would have been cleaned up together."

Ishihara Kanir looked at the ambitious generals and sighed to Tokumiya Tetsuo: "In fact, the most difficult thing is not how to start a war. The excuse is not important. The real thing is to know how to end a war. In the old saying of the *** people, it is to stop when it is better. The Imperial General Staff strategically despise *** to boost morale and boost people's hearts. After all, *** is too big for the empire, but our generals are so stupid that they also despise *** people tactical! The same is true for the *** Geuno!"

Iron Mansion Hesitated for a moment and said, "Second Commander, this time our great *** Imperial Army is determined to use a total of nine divisions, four infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, and the Shanghai Special Marine Corps, a total of more than 280,000 people, more than 120 warships, more than 500 aircraft, and equipped with the latest 95 Type chariots. Isn't it easy to deal with the *** Army?"

Ishihara smiled slightly and said, "Tonggongjun! What would you do if your unit approached the city of Nanjing?"

Iron Man from the East Palace was slightly stunned and said, "Of course it was an attack! The capital that captured *** was a glory that my great *** Empire had not seen in 2,000 years. Even if we disobeyed our orders and died alone under the city, we would have no regrets even if we died! Glorious and powerful!"

Ishihara Kaner said coldly: "Now the Shanghai Expeditionary Army has invested five divisions and is preparing to hit the weak spots of the *** on the landing side of Hangzhou Bay. However, it will take at least twenty days to wait until the troops are loaded. This protracted war is probably about to come to an end. In Shanghai, there is also a Chinese national defense line between Shanghai and Hangzhou. However, this line of defense is not worth mentioning. It can be said that once the Imperial Army defeated the main force of Shanghai's *** Army, Nanjing, the capital of ***, will be completely exposed to us. At present, our army needs time to complete the transportation and material allocation of the entire dispatched army. However, the main purpose is to use the Battle of Shanghai to consume a large amount of elite troops of the Nanjing Central Government, and to destroy the *** people's determination to resist is to destroy their elite troops, such as Zhang Xuewu of Rehe and the German division of the Nanjing government."

Tetsuo Tokumiya nodded in surprise and said, "It is said that the *** army is very brave and fearless in Shanghai. Even if it is already tenaciously defended within the range of our warships, our army can only occupy the position when the enemy is completely destroyed. In such a narrow combat area in Songhu, so many troops are invested in large corps battles, which is probably a very strong move in the history of world wars!"

Ishihara nodded and said, "However, although the ground troops on the North Branch are progressing rapidly, they are intercepted by the Air Force of Zhang Xuewu's Rehe. A few days ago, the seventeen Type 97 heavy explosions were the fighter jets of Zhang Xuewu's army. The threat these fighters brought us was too great, so I asked to send additional flying troops to lure the enemy into battle and use their combat intervals to destroy these fighters on the ground."

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek, who was rushing to the front line of Songhu, was very satisfied with Jiang Xing Shishu's subordinates, especially Hao Wenbin and Ye Yunfei, who were sitting at the end. However, what satisfied Chiang Kai-shek even more was his fellow villager Huang Tianming. Huang Tianming was the captain of the 105th Fighter Brigade under the Rehe Legion. Four months ago, the 105th Fighter Brigade moved to Nanjing to do the so-called exchange training. At that time, Huang Tianming was still unwilling to do so, fearing that he would lose the opportunity to fight the small *** after leaving Rehe. He never expected that four months later, Songhu would have endless small ***.

Although the performance of the bf-109 fighter is of great use, it still cannot withstand the wolf pack tactics of the *** people. Moreover, the Japanese army has openly shot the pilots of our army's parachuting, aiming to hit the morale of our pilots. Huang Tianming is now the ace crash king who has maintained the highest record among the nine brigades of Rehe combat. The number of shot downs of twenty-two is beyond the reach of Rehe colleagues. In order to compare, the Navy Air Force aircraft is indeed better than the land and sea fighter jets of the Rehe Kwantung Army Flight Division.

From the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek nominated and praised the outstanding performance of the fighter brigade commanded by Huang Tianming for the air battle on April 10. The 37-3 record made the *** fighter plane dare not stalk in the battlefield of Shanghai, and decided to set April 10 of each year as Air Force Day!

After the General Staff announced the sequence of troops to reinforce the battlefield in Songhu, Xiong Shihui once again stood up and emphasized three points of anti-Japanese war propositions, and repeatedly defeated them, and fought again and again! Immigration cleared things, strengthened the walls and cleared the fields! Avoid the real and attacked the virtual, hiding the day and moving at night.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the 7th Artillery Regiment to Baoding to be commanded by Sun Lianzhong. This regiment was equipped with Czech field artillery and belonged to the direct line of the Central Army. He asked Shang Zhen's 32nd Army to draw four main regiments into a division to station in Shijiazhuang, and prepare subsequent combat supplies first, and at the same time appease Han Fuju and stabilize the situation in Shandong. What Chiang Kai-shek was most worried about was that the Japanese army landed in Qingdao and Haizhou, cut off the Jinpu Road, and cut off the central government's ties with the north, so he decided to give priority to the supplement of Han Fuju's troops, and the communications troops also advanced northward to effectively grasp the situation in the north.

After many trivial matters, Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin said expressionlessly: "This report is mainly to review the ammunition, food and fodder reserves and the distribution of new weapons! Our army reserves 700 million machine gun bullets, 400 million found to be inventory, and 300 million were distributed to the troops. Ninety million of the inventory is south of the Yellow River, 40 million of Wuchang north of the Yangtze River, and 100 million of Nanjing. Four hundred thousand mountain shells, nine hundred thousand infantry artillery shells, nine hundred thousand mortar shells, and 50 thousand war defense shells. These ammunition is enough for thirty German divisions to fight for three months. There are 600,000 grain and fodder reserves, and 100,000 horses in one month, and are purchasing and preparing two months of reserves. The above reserves are not at all north of the Yellow River.

The first task is to push a part of the above grain and ammunition reserves to the north of the Yellow River. Han Fuju's divisions plan to add 2,000 new rifles for each division. One battalion of the Communications Corps was transferred to Xinxiang and the other battalion was on standby in Zhengzhou, and you can go north at any time. Four of the above reserves of ammunition were built and provided by Rehe. Now, the Japanese army can complete the strategic encirclement of Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, and they cannot get one shot and one ammunition from Rehe, and at the same time they cannot support Rehe Zhang Xuewu's army. The urgent delay is to expand production and find ways to import. Otherwise, within five months, our army will be in a dilemma of guns and cannons without bullets. If the Battle of Songhu persists for two months, our army's ammunition will be completely exhausted."

Chiang Kai-shek used to only know that Zhang Xuewu was constantly providing ammunition to Nanjing, and he seemed to have made a large amount of reserves in several warehouses under the Ministry of Military Affairs. He didn't feel anything at all. Now he fought hard and realized the importance of Rehe. It was a great country with only two months of ammunition reserves. In this case, he fought a life-and-death battle with the people of the *** people. It seemed too risky, but now it was already at the point where he could not fight. If the Germans helped him establish a military-industrial system for three years, most of his sixty reorganizers would be trained, then it would definitely be a different situation.

There are now twelve reorganizers trained, most of whom are reorganizers. Due to interference in the *** side, most of the German contracts with China were not realized or delayed in the end.

Due to the special terrain and terrain relationship between the Songhu area, the Chinese team was unable to exert its advantages in its military strength. Moreover, facing the Japanese army's three-dimensional combat mode of land, sea and air, there was no balance line between quantity and quality. Local small victories could not recover the negative effects caused by the overall sequential increase in troops.

The National Revolutionary Army's combat sequence in the entire Songhu War Zone was divided into three corpses: left, middle and right, Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the left wing corps, Liu Jianxu, commander-in-chief of the Central Army, and Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the right wing corps. The fierce Battle of Songhu has already made the rebellious and self-supporting elite Central Army lose its temper.

Before, I was still laughing at the Central Army as if the surface of the donkey dung egg was light, and the nine elite brigades of the Guangxi elite launched a big counterattack in Pudong, which collided head-on with the Japanese offensive. They wore grass green uniforms and British flat helmets, and carried Czech-made Guangxi elites with their flesh and blood to fight with Japanese naval guns, ground cannons, tanks, and aviation firepower for a whole morning. The Chinese and Westerners finally lost to the modern three-dimensional attack of the Japanese army.

In just one morning, the elite 9th Brigade of the Guangxi Brigade was killed, and the more than 40,000 officers and soldiers who attacked were less than 10,000. Even so, the 9th Brigade of the Guangxi Brigade still rectified the remaining troops and snatched the lost attack starting position. According to their words, the position given to me by the brothers in front cannot be thrown away by my hands, otherwise I would be sorry for the brothers who left first!

When Li Zongren learned that the newly compiled elite 9th Brigade of the Guangxi clique had been defeated, he staggered and fell on the sofa, tears flowing uncontrollably along his cheeks. You must know that the elite 9th Brigades were the team he had trained for many years. They were originally used to expand the third brigade that was used to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. Unexpectedly, five years of hard work were lost in one day? These are 40,000 Guangxi children! I believe that after this battle, Guangxi will be covered with white banners.

The news reached Bai Chongxi, the deputy chief of staff of the State Government. Bai Chongxi sighed expressionlessly. The failure of this attack was originally expected by Bai Chongxi, but he didn't expect it to be defeated so tragically! Duke Chiang! Bai Chongxi was full of bitter words at this moment and didn't know where to start? The Central Army had already started fighting for blood in Songhu, and the three regiments of the teaching corps were all half-dead. Now, with Duke Chiang's order, whether it was the Sichuan Army or the Guangxi clique, Yan Xishan from Shanxi was also fighting for his old job. Who dared not listen to the order? Otherwise, a big hat that destroys the War of Resistance and helps the enemy can ruin your reputation.
Chapter completed!