Chapter 244: The Battle of Nanjing Takes a Sharp Turn (4)
How should the Battle of Nanjing, which lost air supremacy, be carried out? Zhang Xuewu was also up and down in his heart, although he had long expected this result, but he did not expect that the attack on the aircraft carrier of the Yue Army would become the biggest defeat during the Nanjing Campaign under his command.
Zhang Xuewu knew that it was entirely his estimate of the change of history and the role of butterflies that there were serious shortcomings, in fact, since 1933, after he lost his troops under the city of Chengde, everything has quietly undergone many subtle changes, such as the fiasco under the city of Chengde made the emperor [***] department in the distribution of resources of the army and navy changed, because of the defeat of the army under the city of Chengde, so that the side of the city of the city of Chengde realized that its extremely proud combined fleet has no opponent in Asia?
The Pacific Fleet of the United States is not at all an opponent of the Combined Fleet of the Great Imperial Fleet, the Far East Fleet of the British and the French Fleet of Indochina are even more vulnerable, and although the Soviets have great land strength, their navy is no match for the powerful Combined Fleet, and dominating the Pacific Ocean is not a problem at all for the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Navy. It was decided to reallocate and readjust the strategic resources of the empire, and a three-year development plan for the empire was formulated.
This mysterious imperial three-year development plan is actually equivalent to the so-called development plan of the Great Leap Forward of China in later generations, which ignores reality and people's livelihood, and the implementation of this plan is actually a disguised destruction of the national economy and the illegal plundering of national assets.
However, in the case of a book where even one's own life belongs to His Majesty the Emperor, what is the property? The fanaticism of a nation is boiling, burning! However, this nation has obviously lost its mind, and for a nation that has lost its mind, all that awaits it is destruction after it burns and boils.
He stopped the construction of the battleships Yamato and Musashi in the Yamato plan, built three more heavy aircraft carriers that had only started construction in early 1944 in history, and absorbed the tactics of the concentrated use of tanks by the [***] squadron in the Battle of Rehe, and used the combat vehicles as a whole at the level of wings and brigades, and increased and extended the training period of the reserve troops, and also greatly increased the number of heavy artillery brigades and regiments, and equipped the army aviation and naval aviation with more and more advanced attack planes and bombers.
Although the stubborn defense of Rehe has made China achieve a better situation than in history, and the cooperation with the Germans and the training of German mechanics are much faster than in history, but the progress of his own development is much faster than that of China, depending on the gap in comprehensive national strength between the two, but the gap between the two countries is even bigger than in the original history?
This is something that Zhang Xuewu never expected before, saying that he was able to adjust his strategic development tendency? However, since he was able to rise in just a few decades after the Meiji Restoration, and built a huge fleet that spanned the entire Pacific Ocean without rivals, he added big characters in front of the name of the country and became an empire recognized by the European powers!
He is not a pig's head, but he is stiffened by his inherent inferior root and expansion culture, and the single surname of his nation also determines that he can maintain an unprecedentedly consistent national will and national form of the entire nation when necessary, and this is a point that is difficult for China to do as a multi-ethnic country, and China has a vast territory, 30 miles of different winds, 100 miles of different rain, and the people's anger and folk customs are different, and the local complex that has always been Chinese is far greater than their patriotism. After a hundred years of weakness and warlord warfare, the insensitive Chinese have long forgotten what the concept of home and state is.
The Chinese are a plate of scattered sand, colliding with the unprecedented rise of ironclad nationalism, and it is naturally the Chinese who suffer losses in the early stage, but China is a country with a broad and profound civilization and cultural heritage, although such a country has been invaded in history, but it has never been conquered, and the Chinese nation has a very special, terrifying assimilation surname for the invaders, and countless foreign invaders in history have disappeared in the long river of history.
And he ignored the real national strength and the depth of China's grand strategy, so the army fell into the Chinese battlefield is also in the plan, Zhang Xuewu is also annoyed by his mistakes, to put it bluntly, he is greedy for the enemy, and the Chinese side lacks accurate information on the Chinese side, such as the specific number of new divisions formed in the capital? How many heavy guns did it produce? How many tanks? The number of fighters and so on, these important strategic basic information can be described as a blind eye for Zhang Xuewu, and the unilateral intelligence transparency on the battlefield is in an absolutely advantageous position for the sake of the party.
The 6th Division of the Army joined the attack on the Qinhuai River defense line, and its 101st Division also joined the battle sequence of attacking Qixia Mountain, and the three mixed brigades attached to it also joined the battle sequence of attacking Jiangjun Mountain and Purple Mountain Fortress.
The main reason for Emperor Hirohito's anger came from the disdain of the front-line generals for the command of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, and Emperor Hirohito, who was far away from the frontier, stood in front of the elites of the army of the General Staff Headquarters and listened to their so-called strategic decision-making analysis based on the comprehensive strength of the two armies of the enemy and the two countries, so Emperor Hirohito believed that this was someone deliberately embarrassing the imperial family, and the greatest significance of Hatohiko Asakanomiya as the acting commander of the Central Branch Army to capture Nanjing was to reflect the great contribution made by the members of the imperial family in this holy war. It is embodied in the majesty of the imperial power of the imperial family of the Great Empire.
In the eyes of Emperor Hirohito, it was not that the army was too powerful, but the result of the immortal battle of all the generals of the imperial army, so Emperor Hirohito issued an unprecedented imperial decree.
The meaning of the Imperial Decree Discipline in the army is equivalent to the uncrowned king holding the sword of Shang Fang, and its significance is to supervise the officials at all levels who are unfavorable in battle, and if they fail to achieve the goal within the time limit, the trainee should wash away their dereliction of duty and sins by disembowelment.
Many generals of the army can despise His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, but they do not dare to have the slightest neglect and blasphemy against Emperor Hirohito, so for a time, the army and division of the army that attacked Nanjing completely fell into madness, and launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the defense line of Jiangjun Mountain, Qixia Mountain, Purple Mountain, and Qinhuai River, especially in the battle of attacking the Jiangjun Mountain fortress, the 16th Division and the 11th Division of the army organized more than a dozen waves of brigade-level death squads to climb the south cliff of the Jiangjun Mountain fortress from the flank. In the frontal position, the 16th and 11th Divisions attacked the south and north sides of the General Hill Fortress respectively.
In order to prevent the Chinese defenders of the Niushou Mountain tunnel from supporting with firepower, the Yue army directly used a large number of smoke bombs to cover all the sight of the [***] tunnel on the Niushou Mountain side, and organized the 38-type 150 mm cannon to directly fire at the [***] tunnel on the cliff wall to destroy the mouth of the tunnel.
The artillery group of the Chinese defenders on the top of Niushou Mountain, regardless of the heavy artillery suppression and air attack of the Yue army, counterattacked the cannon position of the Yue army with the most fierce firepower, because the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress and the Niushou Mountain pit belt are mutually dependent and coexistent, if the effective cover of the Niushou Mountain Fortress tunnel is lost, the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress will inevitably fall into a situation of being attacked on both sides.
The power of the 38-type 150-millimeter cannon equipped by the army can be called huge, and in history, its two artillery pieces and three artillery pieces collapsed the Nanjing city wall that could exercise automobiles, so once the tunnel mouth was hit by the 38-type 150-millimeter cannon of the army, it completely lost the possibility of recovery.
Therefore, Ye Yunfei made a very tragic decision, that is, he did not hesitate to expose the threat of the artillery group of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress, and also destroyed all the cannons of the Yue Army that were constantly bombarding the tunnels of the Niushou Mountain Fortress.
Sun Guiming, who was originally organizing the troops in the pit that was hit, to pay attention to concealment, and arranged several main tunnels to prepare Fortes 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft guns, and was also shocked by the rumbling artillery sound in the direction of the Jiangjun Mountain fortress?
Although the army's cannon position was caught in a sea of fire, Sun Guiming knew very well that Ye Yunfei was engaged in a big fight, and when the 1005-mm howitzer group covered the army's cannon group, the army's 3815-mm heavy howitzer group would also lock on the position of the Jiangjunshan fortress artillery group.
Although Ye Yunfei was determined to work hard, but after shelling the cannons of the Yue army, Ye Yunfei immediately ordered all the artillery to abandon the artillery and withdraw into the anti-artillery bunker.
Soon, the heavy howitzer group of the army roared the shells as scheduled, and the column of smoke rising dozens of meters high showed the caliber of the army's artillery, and the Chinese artillery looked at the beloved artillery that accompanied them to kill the soldiers on their backs turned into piles of scrap metal in the violent explosion, and almost all the officers and soldiers shed unbearable tears, they are artillerymen, if there is no artillery, what kind of artillery are they?
The artillery bombardment of the Chinese army almost turned the vegetation on Jiangjun Mountain upside down, and the subsequent Syrian fighters carried a batch of incendiary bombs, and in the scorching explosion, the Japanese fighters continued to dive and strafe.
Sun Guiming looked at the violent explosion on the side of General Mountain, and suddenly sighed helplessly: "It's over!" It's all over! I'm afraid that the one hundred and five-millimeter artillery group at General Hill has been completely scrapped! ”
As Sun Guiming was talking, a violent martyrdom burst into a black pillar of smoke, rising straight into the sky! Immediately after that, the warheads that flew rampantly induced bursts of explosions, which was obviously the death of the 105-millimeter ammunition.
(To be continued)