"Commander Tan, the wolf teeth are so beautiful! They actually annihilated an entire heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese! General Zhang Zhizhong, chief of staff of the East China Theater, said excitedly with the front-line battle report that the communications office had just received.

"In other words, the pressure on Nanjing's urban defense will be greatly relieved." Tan Xiaolin raised her head from the sand table and said.

"That's right, as long as the Jiangyin fortress is not lost, Little Japan does not have enough firepower to pose a big threat to Nanjing's fortifications, and if they want to enter Nanjing, they must use their own corpses to pave the way." Sun Liren, the deputy commander on the side, pointed to a point on the sand table and said, "Therefore, the most important thing now is the Jiangyin fortress, the four 150 long-range fortress guns on the fortress are a sharp weapon to block the Japanese Navy's light cruisers and destroyers from approaching, as long as the fortress is not lost, the Japanese Navy's naval artillery firepower will not threaten Nanjing, on the other hand, once the Jiangyin fortress has a problem, the entire battlefield situation will be very passive." ”

Tan Xiaolin and Zhang Zhizhong both nodded. The Huangshan Fort on the Jiangyin Fortress has 4 K18 150mm long-range fortress guns produced by Krupp in Germany, with a range of 24.5km, while the warships of the Japanese Navy, no matter how large the caliber of the main guns, are limited by the terrain, it is impossible to shell the Jiangyin Fortress Battery 20km away, if you enter the range of these 4 fortress guns, the stability and accuracy of the naval guns are affected by the swing of the hull, which is worse than the fixed-installed fortress guns, and the firepower of many warships in the fleet cannot be deployed in the Yangtze River at all. There is no advantage at all. In addition, 16 Krupp SFH-18 howitzers, 8 Pak37 37mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 Flak18 88mm anti-aircraft guns and 14 Flak30 20mm anti-aircraft guns were deployed on the Dongshan Battery, Xishan Battery, Goose Mountain Fort and Xiaoshan Battery. The alternating cover of fire of various calibers on the Jiangyin fortress, coupled with the abundance of ammunition, made it difficult for all enemies who tried to approach and occupy the fortress to advance a single step.

Due to the destruction of the heavy artillery brigade, the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army, Matsui Ishine, was furious, but there was no other way except to send a telegram to reprimand Yanagawa Heisuke, although Tan Xiaolin asked Xiao Shanling to lead people to build the city defense fortifications, although they were not as strong as the Maginot Line, but they were not the 105 field artillery belonging to the field division that could be gnawed. For Yanagawa Heisuke, after the successful attack of several commandos of the wolf fang, they scattered and fled into the mountains and forests, and there was no trace of him, except for being able to kill a few traitors of the Huzhou Maintenance Association to vent his anger, he was also helpless.

The Type 96 heavy cannon had to be replenished and transported from the mainland, not to mention that he could not explain to the military department such a big loss, even if the senior officials of the military department agreed to transfer the heavy artillery again, it would take several months to assemble, transport and appoint personnel in the middle, and he boasted in the military department that he wanted to "destroy China in three months", and it had been four months since he had not touched the city wall of Nanjing, and His Majesty the Emperor did not have the patience to wait for him for a few more months. Thinking about it, Matsui Ishine has no other way, Matsui Ishine can only pull down the "noble" face of the army, and ask for help from the commander of the naval dispatch fleet Tsuda Shizue, the navy has 2 ball mill class light cruisers stationed in Shanghai, each light cruiser is equipped with 7 140mm main guns, this is the only firepower of the Chinese dispatch army that can effectively destroy the city defense fortifications of Nanjing, otherwise Matsui Shigen really wants to take the corpses of Japanese soldiers to pave the way into Nanjing, and the casualties of the Japanese army will be higher than those of the Chinese army, I'm afraid that the military department will not let him go first.

However, Vice Admiral Shizue Tsuda could not have agreed to Matsui Ishine stupidly like this, the 4 German-made K18 fortress guns on the Jiangyin fortress completely cut off the passage to send the fleet up the river, so Tsuda said to Matsui Shigen: "Your Excellency Matsui, the Jiangyin waterway is too narrow, and there is the enemy's long-range fortress artillery defense, I can't take the lives of the imperial navy warriors to send them to death, even if I can break through the Jiangyin waterway in a desperate battle, I'm afraid there won't be much firepower left in my fleet to support Nanjing." ”

So Matsui Ishine had no choice but to order Okamura Ningji's 11th Army to capture or destroy the Jiangyin fortress, the most important thing is to destroy the four K18 fortress guns on the Huangshan Battery, as long as these four guns can be destroyed, the navy's light cruisers can use their own main guns to suppress other firepower on the fortress, and seize the fortress, and then go up the river directly to Nanjing.

For this reason, Okamura Ningji's 11th Army gathered the strength of 5 divisions and regiments to force the 78th Army and the 71st Army to retreat, Jiangyin was less than 10 kilometers ahead, but the vanguard was suppressed by the SFH18 howitzer on the Xiaoshan Battery, the entire 11th Army did not have a caliber of more than 105mm artillery, the 78th Army in front of it did not retreat with its excellent battlefield power and the fire support of the fortress guns behind it, and the 5 divisions of the 11th Army were stuck in the Jiangyin line and could not move an inch. The K18 fortress artillery on the Huangshan battery is more deadly, in the establishment of the Southwest Army, each battalion has an 11-person sniper reconnaissance squad, the regiment-level unit has a 34-person reconnaissance platoon, and the divisional brigade-level troops have a reconnaissance company directly under them, these reconnaissance units often infiltrate from the battlefield gaps where the two armies are fighting, and guide the fortress guns with a range of 24 kilometers to shell the headquarters at all levels below the 11th Army, which lasted for 3 days During the confrontation and repeated battles, the K18 artillery fired a total of 22 times, firing a total of 148 shells, Two brigade headquarters and six wing headquarters were attacked by fortress fire, and the most serious loss of the Japanese army was Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatsu, commander of the 13th Division, who personally visited the headquarters of the 58th Wing in order to boost morale.

The powerful long-range firepower of the K18 fortress artillery forced Okamura Ninji to order the headquarters above the brigade and regiment level not to be within 20 kilometers of the front line, and at the same time pay attention to the concealment and camouflage of the headquarters at all levels, strengthen the search and clearance forces around the headquarters, and strictly prevent the infiltration of Chinese scouts.

Okamura Ninji knew that these measures were palliative, not the root cause, and the most fundamental solution was to take the Jiangyin fortress, but all the staff officers in the 11th Army headquarters were helpless against it, and it was the 78th Army of China guarding Jiangyin, and it would not work whether it was a detour from the front or the side. After thinking about it, Okamura sent a top-secret telegram to Kenji Tohihara in North China......

Three days later, in Shanghai, at the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Major General Kagesa, the newly appointed head of the Shanghai Special High Division, met with Commander Matsui Ishine, and he heard that Commander Matsui had recently been quite angry about the fighting on the Jiangyin front and was already preparing to use "special cigarettes" against the Jiangyin Guard troops.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Kagesa walked into Matsui Ishone's office.

Matsui Ishine looked up: "Section Chief Kagesa, is there something wrong?" ”

"I heard that the dispatch army command is already formulating plans and preparations for the use of special cigarettes against the Jiangyin fortress?"

Matsui stood up and said, "Yes, what?" Is there anything wrong? ”

"Your Excellency, with all due respect, the use of special cigarettes not only carries great political risks, but is also more likely to incur retaliation from the Chinese army. Nowadays, the Western European and American countries have complained about our expansion of the scale of the war against China, because we have harmed their interests, especially after the public concession incident, the anti-Japanese wave in the West has become more and more serious, and the US Embassy in China in Nanjing has not yet had time to move to Wuhan, and once the evidence of our destruction of the "Hague Convention" is in the hands of Westerners, the United States will inevitably threaten the empire with steel and oil in order to protect its own face. What's more, the people of China also have special cigarettes, they attacked Nagasaki with special cigarettes 3 years ago, and the technicians also said that the special cigarettes (VX) of the people of China are much more toxic than our Yellow No. 1 special cigarettes (mustard gas), and we still don't know what their special cigarettes are. ”

Matsui Shigen had a gloomy face, a major general who was engaged in espionage also dared to talk to him like this, which made him very uncomfortable, but he was afraid of the power of the secret agency, he didn't dare to reprimand Ying Zuo Zhenzhao openly, so he could only suppress his anger and said: "Ying Zuojun, you don't know the urgency of the front-line war, on the Songhu battlefield, the casualty ratio of our Imperial Japanese Army and the Chinese government army is more than 1:10 (obviously the Japanese army's battle report is mixed with a lot of water), and the casualty ratio of the Southwest Army of China can also be maintained at about 1:3, With more than 200,000 troops, the Shanghai Dispatch Army defeated more than 600,000 elite government troops in China, and now only 100,000 troops are left in Nanjing, and I sent 300,000 troops to besiege it. As for the current Westerners, they are purely foreign powers, the Chinese can seize Burma and the Andaman Islands from the British with 200,000 men, our warriors sacked the Shanghai Public Concession, and the British and Americans finally did nothing but verbal protests, they did not have the courage to declare war on the rising Japanese Empire, they were a bunch of cowards. I also know that the people of China have special cigarettes, but the entire eastern coastal area of China is under the control of the imperial army, can they still attack the mainland like they did three years ago? The bomber unit of the China Air Force that was able to fly to the Japanese mainland is now in Guangzhou, covering the activities of their weak navy in the South China Sea, do we dare to use special cigarettes on the territory of the China people, do they dare to use special cigarettes on their own territory? Therefore, Ying Zuo-kun, there is no need to worry about the retaliation of the special smoke of the Zhina people. ”

"However, Your Excellency, I must explain to you that the special smoke is different from the bacteriological bombs, especially the White No. 2 (VX poison) of the Chinese people, according to the intelligence of our special high division, both the duration and the spread of the poison can be effectively controlled, although we do not know anything about the composition and process of this poison, but the security forces recently transferred from Manchuria and the garrison attached to the dispatch army carried out the massacre and forced relocation of villages on our main logistics and transportation lines in order to eliminate the Red Party guerrillas. The formation of a large number of no-man's lands around the main roads of our occupation zone, and the special smoke of the Echina people, it will not be difficult to block these supply lines without harming civilians, and then the pressure on our already tight baggage forces will be unprecedented. Kage Zuo said unhurriedly.

Matsui Ishine was speechless for a while, and Kagezo immediately said, "Your Excellency, Commander, I have a better plan to take Jiangyin." ”

"Oh? What do you suggest? Matsui asked.

"The people of China can send small units and guerrillas to attack our heavy artillery brigade, of course, we can also send the same elite small detachment to attack the Jiangyin fortress, as long as the 4 long-range fortress guns on the Huangshan Fort are taken, Okamura-kun's troops can capture the entire Jiangyin under the cover of the naval guns, and once Jiangyin is broken, the whole chess game will be solved."

Matsui Shigen laughed: "Ying Zuojun, your suggestion is very good, I also know that the Jiangyin fortress is what the cowardly navy fears is the 4 long-range artillery, but the Huangshan Fort is at the core of the heavy defense of the Zhina Army, and the defense of their 78th Army revolves around these 4 fortress guns." If this kind of opportunistic behavior can make a breakthrough, then why do you want China to send hundreds of thousands of regular troops? It's not that I look down on your special high class, I'm afraid that no one in the hundreds of thousands of imperial warriors sent to the army is willing to accompany you on such an adventure. ”

Kagezo Zhenzhao said: "Chief Matsui, there is a ready-made 673 special attack team under my Shanghai Special High School, which was carefully formed by General Tu Feiyuan three years ago, and was originally intended to deal with the wolf's tooth special brigade of the Zhina people, but now that the Jiangyin line is blocked, it can just come in handy." Sir, please do not refuse the enthusiasm of our Special High School to be loyal to the Holy War of the Empire, this is our battle plan. ”

As he spoke, Kagesa handed over a folder: "Of course, only the special attack team members can't take the Huangshan Fort, and they still need the cooperation of General Okamura's 11th Army and General Tsuda's fleet firepower, but please rest assured that Your Excellency Matsui, I, Kagesa Zhenzhao, promise in the name of His Majesty the Emperor that if I don't succeed, I will be able to thank the ......Emperor by myself."

Matsui Ishine finally agreed to Kage Zuo Zhenzhao's battle plan, no matter how you look at it, let the people of the special high school sneak attack Jiangyin, it is much safer than really using special cigarettes, he has to admit that Kage Zuo persuaded him, since the Nagasaki incident, His Majesty the Emperor's attitude towards special cigarettes is also quite cautious, if the use of special cigarettes in the end can not capture Nanjing for a long time, then it is he Matsui Ishine who should apologize for his own crimes, now since the special high class wants to stand up to this thunder, why is he happy not to do it?

At Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, more than 150 people of the 673 Special Attack Team who arrived three days ago were stationed here, and Kagesa Zhenzhao came here to convey the order of the Dispatch Army Headquarters to the leader of the special attack team, Hattori Yoshitomi Nakasa: "Hattori-kun, the headquarters has approved your action plan, and at that time, Vice Admiral Tsuda Shizue will order the naval fleet to cooperate with your actions, and you don't have to worry about the army, the commander of the 11th Army, General Okamura, sent a secret telegram asking General Dohihara to transfer you, and he will definitely not dismantle the special high school." It's up to you next, but I'll promise Commander Matsui with the head of the head. If there are any other requirements, the Shanghai Special High School will give full support to the intelligence department, and the others will have the permission of Commander Matsui, and hundreds of thousands of troops will also cooperate. ”

Hattori Yoshitomi took the order and nodded at the same time: "Thank you General Kagesa, I swear by the honor of the Hattori family and the 'Oni Hanzo' that I will definitely take the Jiangyin Fortress." ”

Hattori Yoshitomi, the rank of Nakasa, graduated from the 40th class of Tokyo Lushi, although his family is not a famous family in history, but it is definitely famous, and Hattori Hanzo of the year has almost become synonymous with the later Iga-ryu ninjas. Ninjas are all inherited by family, and the Hattori family has been valued by the shogunate from the "Onihanzo" until the Meiji Restoration, the shogunate collapsed, the samurai class was overthrown, and the "imperial army" replaced the samurai, and the ninja family declined.

Because of the inheritance of the ninja family, although Hattori Yoshinori graduated from the Tokyo Army, he did not have the rigidity of those traditional army officers, and he was very interested in the special operations and special forces that conservative generals disdained, and he thought that this was a great opportunity to revitalize the Hattori family and even the Iga and Koga ninja schools.

After Okamura Ninji saw the special forces led by Dongfang Yunming attack on Nakama City in 33, this army general who was an intelligence officer made up his mind to create such a small detachment in the Japanese army, and Nikko's avant-garde commando was an unsuccessful attempt by him. He was alone, so he found his former colleague, Kenji Dohihara of the secret service agency to plan together, Dohihara through the intelligence network of the special high class, analysis that the ordinary Japanese army is not suitable to become a special attack team member in terms of ideology and habits, the most suitable is still the ninja family, they have been doing this since ancient times, so Dohihara found Hattori Yoshitomi, for hundreds of years, the family predecessor Hattori Hanzo has been more and more gods, Hattori Yoshitomi worships him the most, so he gladly accepted the olive branch of Hattori Hihara.

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