6.130 Soviet advisers

On the morning of December 29, 36 hours after Wuhan had made the decision to abandon Nanjing, Balakov and Bodinov received a telegram from the Soviet ambassador to China, in which the ambassador was very dissatisfied with the work of Balakov and Bodinov after their arrival in Nanjing. Pen Fun Cabinet www.biquge.info Moscow hoped that Huang Haoran could hold out in Nanjing until the spring of 1938, only by keeping the city of Nanjing, coupled with the temptation of a large number of Soviet aid, the cunning supreme authorities would be willing to gradually transfer his Central Army from the hinterland of China to the East China battlefield to fight the Japanese army, the Soviet Union did not come to China to be the main wrongdoer, they needed to let Japan fall into the quagmire of war against China, so as to achieve the goal of weakening Japan's strength.

In the face of the ambassador's accusations, Balakov and Bodinov felt very wronged, the two of them did work according to the instructions of the Soviet Union, but the commander of the Nanjing garrison always stayed away from them, Balakov and Bodinov, the two Soviet advisers, had had enough of sitting on the cold bench in Nanjing, except for the first day they had just arrived in Nanjing, Huang Haoran never appeared in front of them again in the next few days, The officers sent by the city defense command to receive Balakov and Bodinov were also slowly replaced by Wang Huanzhi, the deputy commander, to some low-level colonel-level staff officers, and in the face of the interlocutors who could not influence the situation in Nanjing, Barakov and Bodinov even extinguished their enthusiasm for peddling their theory of active warfare.

The Chinese only wanted Soviet weapons and equipment, and the War of Resistance did not plan to go according to the Soviet plan at all! Perhaps the senior officials of the Chinese government in front of the ambassador will be "very sincere" and "desperate for help", but in the real army, this is not the case at all!

Wuhan's distrust of the Soviet Union determined the attitude of the Chinese army commanders towards the Soviet advisers, and instead of treating the Soviet advisers as their combat think tanks and partners, they guarded against the Soviet advisers' every move.

Balakov and Bodinov didn't know how to explain their current predicament to Mr. Ambassador, the attitude of the Nanjing garrison towards them can be described as extremely polite, this excessive politeness is actually estrangement, in the face of the Nanjing garrison officers who adopted a "non-violent non-cooperation" method to perfunctory their Nanjing garrison officers, Balakov and Bodinov are at a loss!

However, through these days of contact with the Nanjing garrison, Balakov and Bodinov finally figured out some characteristics of the Chinese army, take these armies in Nanjing as an example, they actually belong to three or four different forces, such a situation is simply unimaginable in the Soviet Union, Huang Haoran actually commanded such an army with different dreams in the same bed to fight against the Japanese, and also achieved good results, which is equivalent to a miracle in the eyes of Balakov and Bodinov.

There is only one person who can command these troops in Nanjing, and that is Huang Haoran, and Balakov and Bodinov must persuade Huang Haoran to accept their ideas in order to complete the tasks given to them by the ambassador and the country.

Balakov and Bodinov knew that it would not be easy, but they had to try! The ambassador had made it clear that he hoped that the battle for Nanking would move into 1938, and that Balakov and Bodinov needed Huang Haoran's cooperation.

If Balakov and Bodinov had returned to Wuhan in such a gloomy manner, they would have been in cold Siberia, when the Soviet Union was in the midst of the "Great Purge", and Stalin continued to destroy the Soviet Union like a madman.

"King! We've got to see Huang right away! Otherwise, we will report to the ambassador that the army in Nanking is hostile to us, knowing that this is a time of cooperation between our two countries, and any move to spoil this atmosphere is out of place! ”

Balakov's "anger" frightened the officers sent by Wang Huanzhi to "perfunctory them", and soon the protest of the Soviet advisers reached Huang Haoran, which blamed Wang Huanzhi for being too contemptuous of the Soviets, under the repeated forbearance of Balakov and Bodinov, Wang Huanzhi thought that he had already eaten these two big noses, and today he actually casually found a captain officer who was doing miscellaneous work in the city defense headquarters to deal with these two Soviet advisers, and the results proved that the military rank is the courage of a soldier, and let a captain face two Soviet advisers who were furiousIt was a very unwise decision.

"What about this Wang Huanzhi! How can I have time to greet these people now? Let Deputy Commander Wang go there in person, if it really doesn't work, find Commander Tang, he is the best at this kind of thing......"

Huang Haoran said a few words angrily, and then continued to concentrate on how to fight with Shen Laoer's researchers, Zhongshan was lost, Taiping Gate was lost, and if the troops in the east of the city did not retreat, they would be in danger of being dumplings by the Japanese army.

The 10th Army of the Second Army on the riverside was the first to retreat, and the 66th Army and the 83rd Army were also fighting and retreating, in order to prevent these retreating troops from being pursued by the Japanese, Shen Laoer's 99th Division and the remnants of the 57th Army carried out a full-scale guerrilla war in the east of the city with two military police regiments, the combat purpose of these troops was no longer to hold their positions or eliminate the Japanese army, and what the Nanjing Garrison needed now was time, time to allow the troops to withdraw from Nanjing safely!

"Commander...... See if you're taking some time......"

Huang Haoran just wanted to have a seizure, but Shen Lao Er next to him became angry first! Originally, Shen Yuanlong didn't like to talk about these retreats, he agreed with what Huang Haoran said, the best thing to say about retreat is to turn in, and the ugly thing to say is to lose the battle! Shen Yuanlong's 99th Division didn't lose the battle in Nanjing, if it weren't for the damn 87th Division, let Japan go to Zhongshan, Nanjing, and still fight! Now that someone is messing with Shen Yuanlong at such a time, I have to say that this kid is not very lucky today.

"What the eldest brother said never said a second time! You're here for the first day!? Do you want me to teach you how to do it? ”

Shen Lao Er began to bare his teeth at the officer standing next to him, and was so troubled by Shen Lao Er, Huang Haoran, who originally wanted to get angry, was not angry anymore, he could only suppress the fire.

"Tell me, what's the matter with those big noses?"

The little staff officer who was frightened by Shen Lao Er glanced at Huang Haoran very gratefully, how did he know that Huang Haoran would have been even more popular than Shen Lao Er.

"Commander... The Soviet advisers said that if they could not see you today, they would report that their envoys were not sincere in cooperating, and that it would affect the supply of aid......"

Huang Haoran waved his hand to interrupt the report of the small staff officer, he was not worried at all that the Soviets would stop aiding China, what the polar bear wanted Huang Haoran knew very well, if China fell, the polar bear would have to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, Germany on the western front had become more and more restless, and the polar bear was unwilling to be attacked from both sides.

"This is bluffing me, I really treat Lao Tzu as a little white!"

Huang Haoran let out a disdainful sneer, how to deal with the relationship with the Soviet advisers is a headache for him, the attitude of the highest authorities towards polar bears Huang Haoran is well aware, polar bears are using China to deal with Japan, why is the highest authority not using Soviet aid to deal with the Japanese? This cooperation, which was full of hypocrisy and deception from the beginning, was destined not to last, and the honeymoon between countries always came and went as quickly as possible.

However, it would be a pity not to communicate with these Soviet advisers for this reason alone, and the cooperation between China and the Soviet Union would continue for a long time, and there would be many benefits to getting closer to the representatives of the polar bears during this period, and compared with the American-style equipment obtained by the Chinese army in the latter part of World War II, the Soviet things were not inferior in any way.

Immediately after the start of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Soviet Union became China's main lender. What is even more rare is that these loans can be used to buy weapons and military supplies, and the loan terms are also favorable, with an annual interest rate of only 3%, unlike loans in the Western world, which require 4%, 5% or even 6.5% interest, respectively. The huge loans that the USSR provided to China were absolutely not based on ordinary motives for economic gain, but in order to allow China to acquire much-needed weapons and military-technical equipment and rapidly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army. If the Soviet Union had not vigorously assisted China, whose military strength was far inferior to Japan's, in this regard, it would not have been possible to truly achieve its strategic goal of aiding China and containing Japan. In this sense, these huge loans have a mutually supportive and positive interaction effect. The weapons supplied by the Soviet Union to China were calculated at a preferential price 20% below the market. Even Sun Ke, who negotiated with the Soviet side in Nanjing, praised the sincerity of the Soviet Union's aid to China to resist Japan. From the beginning of China's all-out war of resistance on July 7, 1937 to the outbreak of the Soviet-German war on June 22, 1941, the Soviet Union supplied a relatively large amount of weapons and military equipment to the Chinese army and air force. In the first year of the entry into force of the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, China received from the Soviet Union the full equipment of 20 divisions. To say that Huang Haoran didn't want to fight this batch of Soviet-style equipment, it was really against his will......

Although Huang Haoran has money and a way to get weapons, but his private financial resources are too small compared to the whole country, and the 99th Army is not Huang Haoran's own private soldiers, since it is also the Central Army, it has the right to obtain supplies from the government, and the equipment of 20 divisions does sound like a lot, but if it is divided by the denominator of China's millions of troops, there will be many troops who can't get a little cheap, and the 99th Army wants to get a piece of the pie. The attitude of the two Soviet advisers, Balakov and Bodinov, will be key.

The 115 howitzer, the 37 anti-tank gun and the T-26 tank are all good things.... Thinking of this, Huang Haoran's saliva was about to flow out.

In the end, Huang Haoran decided to meet these two Soviets on the face of the Soviet aid that was likely to be obtained, anyway, now that the battle situation in Nanjing has become clear, he is not afraid that Barakov and Bodinov will make some kind of demons.

The 99th Division began mobile operations, and it was not suitable for the city defense headquarters to continue to be located in the Baixia District, so Huang Haoran asked the officers who took care of Balakov and Bodinov to take them to Chaotian Palace in the west of the city, and Huang Haoran's headquarters would soon be relocated there.

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Zhonghua Gate.

The more than 200 Japanese soldiers who rushed into the Zhonghua Gate finally saw what an urn city was......

As the name suggests, the urn city is a semi-circular or square gate city built to strengthen the defense of the castle or pass, which is part of the ancient Chinese city wall. The two sides of the urn city are connected with the city wall to be established, and there are defensive facilities such as arrow towers, gate gates, and pheasant moats. Enemy soldiers entering the urn city will be attacked by a combined fire from the arrow tower, the gate gate, and the pheasant moat, and the name of the urn city comes from the word "please enter the urn".

Dense rain of bullets fell from the city walls on all sides, standing in the open square surrounded by the city wall, the Japanese soldiers with bayonets did not even have a place to hide, and the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division who hid behind the arrow towers, gates, and pheasant moats vented their anger well, and the result of this battle was naturally one-sided, only the Japanese troops who finally entered the urn city fled the same way they came, and more than 200 devils only survived in the city gate for less than five minutes.

Okamoto Zhenchen Osa put down his binoculars, and the gunfire on the other side of the city gate has gradually stopped, which means that his squadron of sharp soldiers has suffered an accident, for the urn city, Okamoto Zhenchen Osa just looked at the Chinese painting of Major General Ushijima Man, the brigade commander, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful!

Gotta figure out how to crack it!

"Nishimura, is there any good way? This urn city is a bit interesting! ”

Nishimura Shaosa is the favorite general of Okamoto Zhenchen Dasa, and he is very immoral in fighting, and now that the 23rd Wing has encountered a problem, Okamoto Zhenchen Dazuo immediately thought of Nishimura Shaosa.

"Your Excellency, there are several walls here, if you work hard, I'm afraid that you will be surrounded by Chinese several times, I think it's better to find another place to blow up, and then have a counter-encirclement after attacking it, and slowly deal with these Chinese......"

"Mixi! So do it! Nishimura Shaosa, from now on, you will take over the troops on the front line, do a good job! ”

"Hay!"

Nishimura Shaozo smiled and agreed, although he gave Okamoto Zhenchen Dazuo a way to conquer the Zhonghua Gate, but he didn't really plan to do it, the city gates of Nanjing have been broken by the imperial army four times, the battle in the urban area will become the next protagonist, the Chinese can't hold on for long, the defenders of the Zhonghua Gate will lose their fighting spirit once they find that their retreat is wrong, didn't the 3rd Division pick up a big bargain in the Taiping Gate? Nishimura wanted to repeat that comedy at Zhonghua Gate.

It's a pity that Nishimura Shaozuo's little abacus was wrong, the 58th Division is not the 87th Division, and Feng Shengfa is not Shen Fazao!

After the first city gate took advantage, Feng Shengfa immediately ordered the troops to start rotation, and when the officers and soldiers on the second city wall just hid in the Tibetan Cave, the Japanese shells fell on the city wall with a roar, and the Zhonghua Gate Castle ushered in another half-hour artillery bombardment.

The bricks of the city wall preserved from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China have withstood the test of the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and the Zhonghuamen Castle has not suffered any major damage, only part of the arrow tower and pheasant moat have been destroyed in the shelling, and the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division can still rely on this centuries-old castle to continue fighting.

Chariots, ladders and tides of Japanese troops became the next protagonists, the fierce siege battle unfolded outside the Zhonghua Gate, the devil bean chariot drove full horsepower King City Gate inside, after breaking through the debris blocking the city gate hole, the bean chariot drove to the bottom of the second city gate, the devil hidden in the iron shell kept shooting at the city wall, the mortar men of the 58th Division tried several times but failed to hit the bean chariot wandering around, and the heavy machine gun could not shoot through the steel plate of the Japanese chariot, Looking at the little devil's iron toy, Feng Shengfa was angry!

"Kill these Iron Kings for Lao Tzu! Anti-tank guys, on! ”

Explosives packs and Molotov cocktails are the most important weapons of the Nanjing Garrison's anti-tank, and it is by relying on these rudimentary weapons that the Nanjing Garrison has turned dozens of Japanese combat vehicles into iron coffins, and these heroic anti-tank men have made the number of combat vehicles owned by the Japanese combat units now drop to the lowest point since the start of the war.

Seeing that the Japanese tank, which had been invincible just now, was now retreating at full speed and fleeing for its life, the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division on the city wall laughed.

When the Japanese infantry pounced on a large number, Feng Shengfa ordered 800 officers and soldiers equipped with Lee-Enfield rifles to rush to the city wall from the hiding hole behind the city wall, the high rate of fire of the Lee-Enfield rifle was perfectly reflected at this time, and the rapid salvo of 800 rifles hit the ground below the city wall like rain, and many Japanese soldiers who had not had time to retreat were "nailed" to the spot by the rain of bullets, and the area where the Lee-Enfield rifle fired did not leave a living hole.

The rapidly rising casualty figure made Nishimura Shaoza unbearable, and in less than an hour, the 23rd Wing had lost more than 500 people, and in exchange for such a price, even the first wall of Zhonghua Gate was not broken, so the gap made Nishimura Shaoza a little sad.

The co-captain's trust in himself was not something to be squandered, and Nishimura knew that if he still didn't achieve anything in the next two attacks, Okamoto Yamamoto would attack Zhonghua Gate with another person.

Such a shame is absolutely unacceptable to Nishimura Shaosa!

"Order the artillery to use gas bombs! The sappers immediately began to blow up the wall! Get on the bayonet! All on the bayonet! We will fight to the death with the Chinese! ”

Nishimura Shozo is crazy! He wants to prove that the co-captain is not wrong about his trust!

The 58th Division was equipped with a small number of gas masks, and the method of covering the mouth and nose with wet towels had almost no effect in the face of the new poison gas bombs of the Japanese, and the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division on the city wall fell down one by one, and the poisonous gas of the devils made Feng Shengfa's troops pay a heavy price!

The 23rd Wing took advantage of the time when the 58th Division on the Zhonghua Gate Castle was in chaos because of the poisonous gas, and the main force of the 23rd Wing swarmed in from this gap, Feng Shengfa saw that the situation was critical, and personally rushed up with his guard battalion to plug the gap, and by the side of the collapsed city wall, the officers and soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese sides fought in a scuffle, and the officers and soldiers of the 58th Division, who were not as skilled as the Japanese, drove the 23rd Wing out of the gap by virtue of their determination to sacrifice and numerical superiority. Just when the 58th Division was about to win this hand-to-hand battle, the Japanese fired more than a dozen poison gas bombs at the gap, and the Japanese troops wearing gas masks launched another frantic attack...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )