If the intelligence is not leaked and the Japanese really land from Jinshanwei, then the most tangled thing for Chen Jiliang is that his cannon is too small. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Haiqi eight-inch main gun is too old, although the caliber is so large, it can't hit far, and the most critical shell - armor-piercing shell is insufficient. As for the fortress guns along the Yangtze River, the new ones are only the 8 150mm guns that were just bought back from Germany last year, not to mention that these guns have been installed in the Jiangyin fortress, and it is impossible to unload them at all, even if they are transported, that is, six inches.

It's not that there are no bigger guns in China, for example, there are 280mm caliber fortress guns in Hulishan in Xiamen, but these guns are not easy to transport and keep secrets, and they are all artillery ordered in the former Qing Dynasty, and no one knows how far they can hit. Therefore, it can be expected that after the Japanese landing fleet breaks anchor, even if they are trapped in a minefield, their six Pinghai three-year 140mm guns and nine Hairong-class 150mm guns will not be able to penetrate the armor of the Japanese cruisers. The only ones that can really sink are destroyers and transport ships.

Not being able to sink a Japanese cruiser was a very uncomfortable thing for him and the whole navy, and several people asked him about it these days, and in order to boost morale, he said that he could penetrate it, and even he came to believe that his cannon could penetrate the armor of the Japanese cruiser - provided that the two were close enough, but how close? Only God knows.

At Jinshanwei, the Chinese navy is like a spider who carefully spreads its carefully woven web, but unfortunately its prey is not a moth but a bird, which is really distressing. However, in the vast East China Sea, Vice Admiral Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the Japanese 10th Army on the cruiser Natori of the 4th Fleet, was also extremely distressed.

As a 12th graduate of the non-commissioned officer school and a member of the saber group in 1912, Yanagawa Heisuke is naturally older than ordinary people, and he was promoted to lieutenant general during the 918 incident, but the 226 incident not only made him unable to be promoted to general, but also was kicked out of active duty because of his involvement - he was an imperial faction and had interceded for the rebellious soldiers. Now it's a good thing, the red deer of the ruling faction can't beat the Chinese people in Shanghai, so they have to ask him to go out of the mountain. Although he had a sense of arrogance, the General Staff Headquarters had many restrictions on him, such as hoping that the 10th Army would only be limited to fighting in the Shanghai area. In today's situation of the Japanese war, this is simply wishful thinking, and if we want to force the Nanjing government to sue for peace, we must occupy Nanjing and even Wuhan.

The control faction is a red deer, and the general staff headquarters is also full of red deer, especially the deputy chief of the General Staff, Tada Jun, who firmly believes in the inability to expand the war against China, is even more red deer! This guy almost has a Shina soul under the appearance of the Japanese, and he thinks about Shina everywhere, like an ostrich with a shrunken head and a pile of sand; And the report from the Navy also proves the incompetence of the General Staff Headquarters - the water of Jinshan Wei is shallow and deep, and if it were not for the high tide, the soldiers would have to wade and walk for twenty minutes to reach the coast after disembarking from the ship, and the soldiers would be a bunch of targets during these twenty minutes, and the guns of the defenders of China would have killed them.

The 10th Army was scheduled to land on November 5, and although this day was the reason for the astronomical surge, another important reason was to force the General Staff Headquarters to agree or acquiesce to the 10th Army's battle plan. In order to ensure that the 10th Army land as soon as possible, the General Staff Headquarters acquiesced in the new operational plan -- the relationship between the 10th Army and the Shanghai Dispatch Army changed from 'coordination' to 'countermeasures'; the 10th Army's offensive direction was originally 'Shanghai South and West,' but now it is 'entering the area north of Suzhou Creek and planning for the Shanghai Dispatch Army to annihilate the enemy's main force.'" At the same time, every effort will be made to carry out water maneuvering in the area of Dianshan Lake.

But that's not enough! What Yanagawa Heisuke really wanted was that after the army entered the vicinity of Songjiang, it would first enter the line of Pingwang Town-Jiaxing while the enemy's preparations were not finished, and then advance to the vicinity of Changzhou by land and water in Taihu Lake and the area west of it, cut off the enemy's far-reaching retreat, and capture and annihilate the enemy's main force in Shanghai in one fell swoop. ’

The plan of the General Staff Headquarters only required the 10th Army to make a flank attack, while Yanagawa Heisuke's plan was to bypass the entire battlefield, occupy Jiaxing, and then occupy Changzhou by land and water through the Suzhou Creek and Taihu Lake. Historically, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters had no plan to occupy Nanjing, and it was precisely because the 10th Army changed its battle plan without authorization, pursued it in parallel, and Matsui Ishine, a 'one-shot theory', led the Shanghai Dispatch Army to follow up that Nanjing was taken more than a month later.

Obviously, the General Staff Headquarters would not have made the same risky plan, and those incompetent red deer kept emphasizing that 'the operational area of the Central China Front Army is roughly the area east of the line between Suzhou and Jiaxing,' as if crossing this line would lead to endless disasters. And even this line was finally agreed to by the deputy chief of staff, Lieutenant General Tada Jun, who was the 'Spiritual Shinato' after repeated consideration.

"Your Excellency, the General Staff Headquarters will not agree to this plan!" Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke Dama Jindao sat in the Natori Chief's room, while Major General Tsukada Tsukada, director of the Third Division of the General Staff Headquarters, bowed down to oppose the latest battle plan of the 10th Army.

"Just by occupying Shanghai, the war will not end!" Yanagawa Heisuke's face was grim, and his hands were on his command knife. "Only by destroying the main force of the China Army and taking advantage of the situation to occupy Nanjing can the Central Front force force the China people to submit!"

It is already outrageous to occupy Changzhou from Jiaxing, and I don't want the commander to 'occupy Nanjing', and Major General Tsukada only wants to wipe his sweat. Although Lieutenant General Matsui Ishone, commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, also had the idea of occupying Nanjing, he always had to say 'when there is spare strength', and now Commander Yanagawa in front of him is indeed 'spare strength' -- the 6th, 18th, and 114th divisions under the 10th Army, as well as the 9th Brigade (the Kunisaki Detachment is subordinate to the 5th Division) and the 6th Field Artillery Brigade, with a total of about 100,000 troops. If His Excellency Liu Chuan really wants to make up his mind, he will definitely be able to hit the city of Nanjing. It's just that neither the General Staff Headquarters nor the Cabinet mentioned the occupation of Nanjing, and the 10th Army's 'going alone' would only make the China incident completely out of control.

"Pavilion... The General Staff Headquarters has no plan to occupy Nanjing for the time being, and the 10th Army should cooperate with the Shanghai Dispatch Army to fight and annihilate the main force ......of the Shina Army." Tsukada had to repeat these nonsense, and he felt that the previous concerns of Lieutenant General Tada Jun were completely correct - the reason why he was sent to the 10th Army was to ask him to find a way to make the 10th Army obedient.

"Tanabe-kun, yesterday was Meiji Day." Yanagawa Heisuke didn't look at Tsukada's attack, and only asked his chief of staff, Tanabe Moritake.

"Yes, Your Excellency," replied Major General Tanabe after a moment's hesitation. Of course he knew what the commander meant.

"So what results did the Shanghai dispatch army achieve yesterday to celebrate Emperor Meiji's birthday?" Yanagawa Heisuke asked calmly.

"Shanghai... The Dispatch Army, Your Excellency, has not received a briefing on the war from the Shanghai Dispatch Army. Moritake Tanabe said truthfully.

"Humph!" Yanagawa Heisuke snorted disdainfully, "The battle in Shanghai lasted for three months, and countless soldiers were shattered. Is it the incompetence of the generals at the front? Is His Excellency Commander Matsui incompetent? No! It's the incompetence of others. Today's China is already a mess that can't be untied, don't untie it, just use the saber of Great Japan to cut off this mess! ”

Of course, Yanagawa Heisuke is more qualified than Tsukada Tsukashi, and participated in the Sunro War as a lieutenant, Tsukada Ken only graduated from the non-commissioned officer school in 1907, and he is not a member of the saber team, so it is extremely normal to be suppressed by Yanagawa Heisuke. Now that the commander insisted on completely changing the battle plan of the 10th Army, Tsukada could only send a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters, but in fact, there was no telegram, and Yanagawa Heisuke could ignore it.

Major General Tsukada bowed and withdrew from the commander's office, leaving only the staff officers of the 10th Army headquarters in the room. Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake pretended not to hear Yanagawa's previous words, and only said: "Your Excellency, the reconnaissance of the 1st Air Force of the Navy has shown that the Shina Army in the landing area has built a lot of fortifications near Jinshanwei, but the number of Shina troops stationed here has not increased. ”

"Hmm." Yanagawa Heisuke whispered unconcernedly.

During these days, all he thought about was how to independently command the 10th Army to occupy Changzhou, and how to attack Nanjing after encircling and annihilating the main force of the Shanghai China Army. As for the defenders of Jinshanwei - according to the information of a month ago, the 62nd Division of China stationed here was a weak force with no steel helmets and no field artillery, and it was a 'miscellaneous division' of China. The 10th Army is not only an army operation, but also the 4th Naval Fleet consists of the 8th, 12th, and 14th Fleets, as well as the 1st and 4th Mine Fleets, as well as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Air Fleets, as well as the 1st and 2nd Combined Air Forces. The defenders of China, without shore artillery and permanent fortifications, would simply collapse under the combined attack of naval guns and aircraft.

The Navy also believes that in order to avoid difficulties in landing, it should anchor before 2 p.m. and start landing at 3 p.m. This will avoid problems such as wading in the water for too long a coast. Tanabe went on to report on the Navy's last reconnaissance yesterday – this time to try to measure the depth of the water as close to the shore as possible in the second half of the night, and the previous reconnaissance was almost exclusively aerial reconnaissance.

"At present, the Zhina Army is only equipped with two divisions east of Haiyan, and there are strong positions on the coast east and west of the Jinshan Acropolis, three trench lines on the coast in the west area, and one trench line in the east area." Masao Terada, chief of staff officer of operations, who also made a report, gave a briefing on the situation of the defenders. "Aerial reconnaissance shows that during this time, the Chinese army had two discontinuous lines of defense behind the coastal defense line, probably the retreat point of the coastal defense line, which belonged to both sides of the Songhu highway.

There was no abnormality in the other Chinese troops near the landing area, and the radio direction also indicated that the corps and division headquarters had not moved. At present, the number of troops that may be reinforced in the landing area is roughly as follows: one and a half divisions in Pudong, two to three divisions near Nanshi in Shanghai, one division in Songjiang, one division in Jiaxing, two divisions in Hangzhou, and one division in Ningbo. However, if these troops are to be reinforced, they will be under the attack of our land and sea aircraft......"

The landing on Yu Jinshanwei was a surprise attack, and since it was a surprise attack, the reconnaissance intelligence was naturally seriously insufficient, but as long as the Zhina army was not alarmed, how many troops could support Jinshanwei was not considered by the 10th Army General Staff, and the resistance of the sea tide and geographical factors to the landing was far greater than that of the defenders of China.

Masao Terada's report was heard by Yanagawa Heisuke, who eventually turned his attention to the landing operation itself. In the planning of the General Staff, the planned landing sites were divided into three areas: A, B, and C.

Area A, east of the Jinshan Acropolis, near Huangque, between the towns of Jinshanzui, was carried by 16 transport ships of the 1st Fleet to carry the main force of the 18th Division to land; Area B, west of the Acropolis of Jinshan, near Haiwol-an, about 2,000 kilometers east of Taipingqiao, the 6th Division was carried by 20 transport ships of the 2nd Fleet, and landed with the Kunisaki detachment; Area C is located on the left side of Area B, about 2 kilometers west of Taiping Bridge, between the unnamed village and Shijia Bridge. The landing of the left detachment (18th Wing of the 114th Division) was carried by six transports of the 2nd flotilla. Twenty transport ships of the Third Flotilla carried troops directly under the army to land in areas B and C.

The landing force was not the full strength of the 10th Army, and the 114th Division was in the follow-up transport fleet. As for the landing arrangement, the Kunisaki detachment had landed at Dagukou in July, and had been trained in this area before, which is why it was incorporated into the 10th Army to take the lead - it would land in Area B, and before the left and right flanks.

The 18th Division participated in the Qingdao Campaign more than 10 years ago, and that time it also landed ashore, although the officers and soldiers had long since been replaced, but the unit training subjects included landing content, so as the second main force of the landing, that is, responsible for the landing on both sides of A and C. Although the 6th Division was stronger in combat effectiveness than the 18th Division, it had never conducted landing training and operations, and although it had also raced against time to carry out boat transfer and landing combat training on the Goto Islands in the past 10 days or so, after all, it was grinding guns on the spot and had to be arranged behind the Kunisaki detachment. In addition, the task of capturing the Acropolis of Kanayama will also be given to the Kunisaki detachment, which will be the first to land ashore.

After reading the landing plan prepared by the General Staff of the Army, Yanagawa Heisuke expressed his satisfaction with it. He was fully confident that in twenty-six hours, the flag of the 10th Army of the Great Japanese Army would be planted on the head of the Acropolis.

The commander was satisfied, but the chief of staff, Masao Terada, reminded him very inappropriately: "Your Excellency, judging from our army's reconnaissance of Pudong, Jinshan, Haiyan, and Songjiang in recent months, the Jinshan area is the most inaccurate. A lot of the intelligence is just speculation, giving a very vague feeling, like... It's like a fog shrouded in it. ”

The reconnaissance that Masatao Terada said was an in-depth reconnaissance sent by the army, not a high-altitude photograph taken by an airplane. Although the Chinese incident was rushed and the General Staff Headquarters did not organize a special task force like the Japanese-dew War, in the past few months, Japanese spies have secretly infiltrated the area north of Hangzhou Bay and obtained a large amount of information through bribery and small favors. However, the collection of the situation in Jinshan County has been very difficult, and some special agents have even been caught, which is very worrying.

"Previously, there was intelligence that the personnel of the Blue Coat Society of China took control of the security team of the Jinshan County Police Department and other county organs three months ago, and Zhang Zhongtang, the chief of the Jinshan County Police Department, also admitted that he was a member of the Blue Coat Society, which is just an isolated phenomenon. This situation in Jinshan County was in August, and it was not at all directed at the entire landing operation. The chief of staff, Tanabe Moritake, saw that Yanagawa Heisuke also seemed worried, and immediately said his thoughts.

"Your Excellency, it is impossible for the Chinese Army to hold the coast because of a member of the Blue Coat Society who hates the Empire, not to mention that this person is only a police chief. In addition, it is reported that yesterday was the festival of Jinshan County to celebrate the harvest and worship the ancestors, and everyone including the defenders was drinking, and it was said that it would take three consecutive days to drink. ”