The army's fierce artillery fire almost turned over the suburbs of Nanjing, and the only thing that temporarily wavered was the headquarters of the 154th Division and the 156th Division that were holding positions along the Qinhuai River, such as Hewan, Datang, Hongcun, and Jinsheng Village.

In the face of the resolute and fierce counterattack of the Chinese defenders, all the offensive units of the Chinese army felt very uncomfortable, especially the fierce artillery fire of the squadron, which was not only inferior to the imperial army in terms of the density and range of artillery fire, but even far exceeded the field heavy howitzers of the imperial army in active service in terms of heavy howitzers.

It is because the German 32 times and 30 times the Krupp 150mm heavy howitzers equipped by the Chinese [***] team can exceed the surname of the book too much, so the heavy howitzers of the Chinese army can only provide artillery support with extremely low accuracy and a large scale with great proximity.

The early morning of May 25, 1937 has become the largest bloody battle in Nanjing's modern history, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Chinese and Chinese armies fought in different languages and with different purposes around the capital of the old Chinese empire.

Defending Nanjing is not a simple slogan of Zhang Xuewu, in fact, the slogan is very easy to shout, but it is very difficult to really fulfill it.

However, Zhang Xuewu knows very well that at this moment, the Chinese [***] people have almost been forced into a desperate situation by the army, Nanjing is a symbol of China in this era, and the loss of Nanjing's determination to persist in the war of resistance to the end is a huge blow.

Looking at the artillery fire on three sides of Nanjing City, Zhang Xuewu felt great pressure, the telephone in the headquarters kept ringing, and the operational staff officers who came and went in a hurry did not have the wind and clouds of the previous great victory.

Although on the surface, the [***] divisions guarding Nanjing were the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions, the 74th Army, the 66th Army, the Teaching Corps, and the Military Police Corps.

However, Zhang Xuewu knew very well that except for the proportion of new veterans of the teaching corps and the three military police regiments after the expansion reached two-fifths, the rest of the units were the remnants of the Songhu battlefield that had been retired, and Zhang Xuewu's generously funded artillery and weapons could not replace the experienced veterans and grassroots officers.

[***] The ministries are much stronger than the ministries that defended Nanjing with the remnants in history, and it is a pity that the uncontrollable surname of the butterfly effect, said that I am not a pig's head, and I don't remember to eat or fight, Zhang Xuewu remembered that he gave the Kwantung Army a resounding slap in the face in the defense of Chengde, which made me lose face, and almost made me resign and the cabinet collapsed.

Zhang Xuewu also thought about the specific reason, the reason is also very simple, that is, while you are developing rapidly, your enemy is also desperately developing, and the biggest effect of these two simultaneous developments is to cancel each other out of their development momentum, and in the end, the side with strong comprehensive strength in industry, finance and the country will still occupy the overall advantage.

While Zhang Xuewu wantonly used the funds provided by Zhou Ying and the proceeds from planting and selling tobacco to buy a large number of imported weapons in Baotou, he was not idle, and was also vigorously developing the army's armaments for large-scale expansion, saying that in his history in 1937, there were only two fully equipped heavy artillery brigades in China, but now there are nine heavy artillery brigades.

From the mass production and installation of new mountain artillery to new combat vehicles, ironclad vehicles, fighters, bombers, large-caliber artillery, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, and so on, the army was expanded on a large scale in a very short period of time, and before it was launched into the country's wartime financial system, the army only relied on plundering the three northeastern provinces, Korea, and Taiwan, and saving resources from its own population to support these armies and reached the limit of its national strength, so it could not wait to take the lead in provoking the war.

Zhang Xuewu now misses very much the Kwantung Army headquarters that he beat up in Chengde, and at that time he was able to beat the Kwantung Army headquarters to the point of losing his armor and urine, in fact, one is that its deployment is very proper, the troops are relatively sufficient, the firepower of light weapons is fierce, the ammunition reserves are sufficient, and it also has a very outstanding and excellent artillery unit.

However, all of this is not actually the most important, the most important thing is the strategic and tactical mistakes of the Yue army, coupled with the defeat of the Northeast Army in the early stage of the Battle of Rehe, which made the Yue army arrogant, and compared with the Yue himself, who received a large number of materials, precious metals, weapons and ammunition from the three northeastern provinces in history, Zhang Xuewu's desperate resistance in the Beida camp made him empty-handed. Historically, it is said that several artillery production lines of the arsenals of the three eastern provinces, which were greatly used by him, had been the latest heavy artillery production lines purchased at that time, and all of them were brought to Baotou by Zhang Xuewu.

The army that was fought in Rehe was a department that lacked the basic preparations for attacking fortifications, and even did not prepare complete clothing to protect against the cold, and the army made several major mistakes in strategy and tactics in a row, and the special paratroop assault team attacked the Chaoyang logistics supply base of the army and the airport in the western suburbs of Jinzhou, and there were signs of reinforcements across the pass of the Great Wall, so Zhang Xuewu was able to trap the lonely city and win, and fought a great victory in the defensive war.

In history, in 1937, most of the chariot units of the Yue Army belonged to the division and regiment level at the brigade level, and the squadron level was mixed with brigades.

The Eighth Division of the Rehe Army was severely damaged by Zhang Xuewu's tank group in a short sortie, and its field artillery wing was completely destroyed, and this case was repeatedly studied by the General Staff Headquarters of the Army after the war, and the tactical staff officers of the Army were surprised to find that if they controlled the railway line, they would use the chariot troops to concentrate on breaking through the enemy's defense line in the plains or hilly areas, and then quickly assault the enemy's flank and rear, which could quickly break up the enemy's resistance and divide the enemy's various units, which was conducive to dividing and annihilating the enemy's living forces.

Moreover, the staff officers of the army also found that the large-scale centralized use of chariots can play a crucial role in determining the surname in battles of the scale above the campaign.

And this point in history is said that it was not until after the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939, in the face of the Soviet army's tanks and fierce artillery fire and ground-air coordinated strikes, that he suddenly realized the importance of the original concentrated use of tanks and artillery.

However, my tank is still a little worse after all, speed, defense, and firepower are the three most important elements of the tank, and the most outstanding tank in my history is the most outstanding one, except for the so-called end-of-the-world truce model, it will belong to the Type 95 light tank, and the most outstanding point of the Type 95 light tank is just a little speed, compared to the Jackal light tank equipped by the Rehe Army, the Type 95 light tank equipped by the Army is not the opponent of the Jackal at all.

The great changes in history and the accumulation of the butterfly effect made Zhang Xuewu feel very helpless, that is, your strength is increasing, and the enemy's strength is also constantly increasing, and history has largely deviated from the original track, which also makes Zhang Xuewu lose his most important reliance.

In fact, in the face of the menacing Zhang Xuewu is not afraid and worried, Zhang Xuewu is most worried about the direction of Xuzhou, according to recent intelligence that the Chinese dispatch army has been set up, under the North China and Central China two front armies, its main force is to send elite divisions to the Longhai line, the Yellow River is not much of an obstacle for the army.

Zhang Xuewu is worried that Han Fuyu of Shandong really abandoned the city and became a long-legged general as in history, so that once Jinan, the capital of Shandong, is lost, the Chinese [***] team can only stick to Xuzhou with all their might, because Xuzhou has always been the gateway to the Central Plains, once Xuzhou falls into the hands of the Yuekou, then it will be meaningless to stick to Nanjing.

In order to prevent the army from rapidly attacking Wuhan and giving the Chinese [***] team time to rest and replenish, the only remaining way can only be to dig up the Yellow River and cause a large area of the Yellow River to replace the army.

In fact, there are many rumors about the embankment digging at the mouth of the garden in later generations, but Zhang Xuewu remembers that according to the relevant documents of later generations, it was General Falken Haosen, the head of the German [***] Affairs Advisory Group, who proposed this strategy in a military intelligence address to the Supreme Military Council of the National People's Axe, predicting the total deployment of the army's invasion of China, strategic and tactical guidelines, as well as the corresponding countermeasures in [***], etc., in this message, General Falkenhausen suggested that once the army captured Xuzhou, The Nationalist Government dug the embankment of the Yellow River, delayed the attack of the Yue army with the flood water, and took advantage of the flood to find fighters to annihilate the advancing Yue army.

If Xuzhou is lost as it is in history, then digging up the Yellow River and using water as a soldier can only become the only best choice for the national government, and the war is actually launched by the ruling group in order to seek greater fame and fortune, and there is nothing just or unjust about the war itself.

Two thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Chinese had clearly expressed the true meaning of war with an idiom and four characters, that is, "the victor is the prince, the loser is the thief!" "So it is destined that history will be written by the victors.

(To be continued)