Chapter 376: Hainan Independent Regiment
Li Tieshi Shiran walked into the Nanjing front-line headquarters, and did not immediately answer Tang Shengzhi's question, but first informed everyone of the good news, that just last night, the Hainan Independent Regiment killed all the 5,000 men and horses of the Japanese Guoqi detachment that was preparing to smuggle across the river in Cihu Town.
Now they are actively deploying defenses in Cihu Town, and they will ensure that the ferry crossing in Cihu Town will not be occupied by the Japanese army within ten days, and the purpose of Li Tie's coming here today is to tell everyone that Nanjing can no longer be defended for a long time.
Now there are more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, and he hopes that everyone will work out a steady retreat plan, and there will be no more clueless retreat like the Shanghai rout.
Hearing that the Hainan Independent Regiment actually killed 5,000 Japanese troops in Cihu Town, everyone thought it was incredible, how could this be possible, it was impossible for an army to say that it would kill 5,000 Japanese troops and kill 5,000 Japanese troops.
Everyone was shocked by Li Tie's news, and the generals present were not at all interested in the proposal to evacuate Nanjing, they were all very curious about how the so-called independent regiment killed the entire 5,000 Japanese troops.
You must know that from the Battle of Nanjing to the present, the defenders of Nanjing have suffered more than 10,000 casualties in two days, but even if the 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese troops have the ammunition support of the Huaxing Company, they have not wiped out the 5,000 Japanese troops in total.
The casualty ratio of this ratio to three already made the defending generals present feel that they were burning incense. Most of the generals at this time were people who dared to fight, fight and die.
It's just that I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, I'm afraid of pig-like teammates, and the incompetent generals at this time also account for a large part, they are in high positions, and they may have a heart to win with the Japanese army, but they really don't have the ability to win.
In addition, a few rotten fish will occasionally pop out and disrupt the war situation, and the Chinese army will naturally be defeated by the Japanese army every time with more blows and fewer blows. With such an army composition, not to mention Commander Chiang, who is not strong in military ability, even if he is replaced by Mao Weiren, he will not be able to play at the same time.
As for the issue of the Hainan Independent Regiment, Li Tie naturally also had to explain it to the generals present. Although this independent regiment was only a regiment, they had 5,000 men.
Their independent regiment was composed of five regiments, which was more than the strength of a brigade of the National Revolutionary Army and equivalent to the strength of a division. In addition, they have proper tactics, good weapons and equipment, and at the same time they are sneak attacks at night, so they will achieve such great results.
But that was also a remarkable achievement, since the war between China and Japan, they had never defeated the Japanese army with the same forces.
Not to mention the record of its own casualties and the total annihilation of the Japanese army, the generals present believe that the record of this independent regiment is enough to go down in history.
However, I have just received news that more than a dozen planes and two wings are going to Cihu Town to attack the Hainan Independent Regiment, and I don't know if they can withstand the Japanese attack.
Now that the battle of Nanjing City has begun, and most of the hole cards of the Chinese defenders have been touched by the Japanese army, is this new Hainan Independent Regiment really so bad? Where did they train their soldiers? Can this be played?
Li Tie said straight to the point that the independent regiment in Cihu Town was actually composed of the Shanghai Huaxing Escort and some of the scattered Chinese troops. So they're all made up of veterans, not recruits in the true sense of the word.
As for the name of their Hainan Independent Regiment, it was completely to avoid Japan's direct retaliation against Huaxing Company in the future, so they were hung under the name of Hainan Island.
As for why he is under the name of Hainan Island, it is very simple, Wang Yaqiao is his eldest brother, and all his military strength in Hainan is aided by himself.
And Wang Yaqiao's hatred of the Japanese is also known throughout the country, so you don't have to worry that Wang Yaqiao's Hainan Guards are here to stir up trouble, and the Hainan Guards are sincerely here to help everyone resist the Japanese army.
Now the independent regiment in Cihu Town has taken part in the defense of Nanjing, and there are still 10,000 Hainan guards in Nanjing, who have officially taken over the positions at the Xiaguan Wharf and the exit of the Yangtze River in Nanjing this morning.
The 36th Division, which was originally responsible for guarding the Xiaguan wharf, was still fortified there, and the Hainan Guards did not participate in their defense work, and the Hainan Guards were only responsible for protecting the backs of all the Nanjing soldiers and civilians when Nanjing was unpunctual, and they would do their best to resist the Japanese attack and give all the soldiers and civilians enough time to retreat.
As soon as Li Tie's words fell, they aroused the unanimous condemnation of many generals present, who said that Li Tie looked down on people, and who said that Li Tie underestimated the combat strength of their National Revolutionary Army.
Although they have now lost nearly 10,000 horses, they each have the heart of death, they do not believe that they will not be able to stop the attack of the Japanese army with the heart of death.
Looking at these angry generals, Li Tie was very moved from the bottom of his heart, after all, under such inferior equipment, nearly half of the soldiers who had been killed and injured still fought to the death, which was worthy of respect everywhere.
As for the so-called social elites who keep scolding the Chinese army for fighting more and fighting less, returning home with a big defeat, and life is worse than death, how do they know the cruelty of modern warfare?
Now Li Tie has donated all the ammunition in the underground warehouse of Nanjing Huaxing, but it still can't meet the consumption of the entire Nanjing battlefield.
Fortunately, Li Tie still had a back hand, although with his ability, he still did not prevent the fate of Nanjing City from being captured, but he could minimize the losses of the Nanjing army and civilians.
Now that there are 5,000 independent regiments in the west, their plan A is going smoothly, not only defending the Cihu Town ferry, but also completely annihilating the Guoqi detachment.
In Nanjing, there were 10,000 Hainan guards who were actively building fortifications and organizing defenses. With the latest combined fortress of Huaxing Laboratory, Li Tie was sure enough to block the Japanese attack.
As for the troops used to resist the Japanese fleet in the east, he had already made arrangements, looking at the time, this heroic force should have infiltrated near the target, and after the target was evacuated, it would naturally be able to carry out Plan B.
For some soldiers who insisted on co-living and dying with Nanjing, Li Tie couldn't say anything other than respect.
Although the defenders of Nanjing did not care about their own life and death, Commander Chiang, who was far away in Wuhan, was frightened when he heard that the Japanese army had a tactical move to cross the Yangtze River north.
Commander Jiang hurriedly called Tang Shengzhi, who was far away in Nanjing, and told him that if Nanjing could not be defended, he would not hold it, and he would leave it to be useful, and he would reorganize his army for war in the future.
Now that most of Commander Chiang's descendants have suffered casualties, he really feels sorry for the remnants of the five German armor divisions who are still guarding Nanjing, that is where his greatest effort lies, and he is really reluctant to annihilate the whole army.
Fortunately, Tang Shengzhi was determined to fight, because although they suffered heavy casualties, the casualties of the Japanese army were not small, and they wanted to take the opportunity to consume more Japanese troops.
At the same time, it also allows other Chinese troops to learn from it, analyze the Japanese army's tactics well, and at the same time come up with better tactics to deal with the Japanese army, so as to win more hope for victory in the future Sino-Japanese war.
Seeing that the defenders of Nanjing were so strong, Commander Chiang was also very moved, and he could not oppose the kindness of the soldiers.
We can only persuade each other with good words, and we can arrange a plan for withdrawing troops in advance, and once Nanjing really does not hold on, we must bring all the troops out of Nanjing safely.
While Li Tie was still discussing with Tang Shengzhi about how to arrange the future battle, the Hainan Independent Regiment in Cihu Town had already ushered in the arrival of sixteen Japanese planes.
The twenty planes had no idea that they would be attacked by the Chinese troops, and they had just arrived over Nanjing when they suddenly received the latest orders.
They were ordered to immediately abandon their current mission of bombing Nanjing, and instead carry out carpet bombing on the town of Cihu, 60 kilometers outside the city of Nanjing.
It is said that five thousand Chinese troops suddenly appeared there.
The 16 pilots of the 1st Air Force Group of the Central China Front, who had just received this task, were very happy; since the uninterrupted bombing of Nanjing began on 1 December, they have never been attacked by anti-aircraft fire from the ground after they were counterattacked by more than a dozen antiaircraft machine guns on the first day and two planes were damaged.
From that day on, they bombed unscrupulously over Nanjing every day, for 12 whole days, and they themselves could not remember how many times they bombed Nanjing, anyway, in their opinion, Nanjing no longer had any strategic targets worth bombing.
I remember that there were a few times when there was really no target to bomb, and their flying group even competed to see who could bomb accurately. For example, bombing unattended children on the streets.
Bombing the homeless and scurrying Nanjing refugees, they also descended to a low altitude of several tens of meters and fired machine guns at pedestrians on the road.
Anyway, the pilots of the 1st Air Brigade had a lot of fun in the past ten days. Now it's a good thing, just when I feel that Nanjing is tired of playing, new playthings have appeared.
The pilots of the 1st Group had seen through the clouds a nondescript town in the distance, just behind a low hill, and seemed to be a good place.
It's a pity that this beautiful town is about to disappear under their bombardment.
The captain of the first group ordered to reduce the altitude and prepare for the attack, in order to teach the Chinese troops a profound lesson, he ordered all planes to land at a low-to-medium visual distance, and when everyone found the trace of the Chinese army, the bombing competition began, as always, the more targets killed in the first three bombs, the more valuable the damaged buildings The pilot won.
The winning pilot will receive the full allowance of the other pilots for the month. For the sake of the Imperial Japanese Army, in order to get this month's allowance alone, kill.
Sixteen planes were divided into four rows, densely flying over the hills. At the moment when you just flew over the hills. The captain of the 1st Flying Group, suddenly found that on the back of the hill, it seemed that there were several artillery formations.
This is a valuable target, as long as he takes out these artillery positions, he will win this game. But why is it so familiar to look at the artillery on those artillery positions?
Suddenly this captain was agitated, not good, it was several anti-aircraft artillery anti-aircraft positions. Considering that they were at the best altitude for the attack of the anti-aircraft guns, and at the same time they had just flown over the hills, and were just in the stage of gliding down the hills, and they were also flying the slowest times, if these anti-aircraft artillery were trained quickly at this time?
The captain didn't dare to imagine it, he reflexively pulled the joystick, and quickly wanted to pull up the plane and escape from here, when he was about to escape, he didn't forget to shout on the radio station: "There is an ambush, run away!" ”
Then the group leader heard the characteristic explosion of the anti-aircraft guns on the ground.