On November 26, 1937, in Shanghai, which had been fully occupied at this time, more than a dozen division commanders were sitting at the conference table in the Provisional Headquarters of the Japanese Central China Front, their faces full of seriousness.

General Matsui Ishone, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Central China Front, was holding a mobilization meeting for the attack on Nanjing, and he said with a smile on his face:

"Nanking is the capital of China, and the occupation of Nanking is an international event, so we must make a careful plan, and we must give full play to the might of our Imperial Japanese Army to make China fearful."

The commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, said: "The 6th Division, the 18th Division, and the 114th Division of our 10th Army suffered heavy losses when they landed in Hangzhou Bay.

In particular, the 18th Division and the 114th Division lost nearly half of it, which is the shame of our 10th Army, and the shame of the soldiers can only be washed with blood.

Therefore, I hope that General Matsui will hand over the main task of attacking Nanjing to our Tenth Army. I promise to occupy Nanking as quickly as possible, and never give the domestic army base camp time to react.

In addition, once our army crossed the Wuxi restriction line and attacked Nanjing. The headquarters will definitely give the order to halt the attack, and I hope that Admiral Matsui will be able to postpone the order given to me for three days.

In this way, after I received the order, I postponed it for another three days, and there was a week, which was enough time for us to occupy Nanjing. As long as we occupy Nanjing, I promise that the Chinese will know the military might of our Japanese militarist state from now on.

In my eyes, every plant and tree in China is an enemy. I want to let the people of all China know that the only way to survive in front of the Japanese Imperial Army is to surrender.

In addition, our Tenth Army has suffered heavy losses in Hangzhou Bay this time, and I hope that when we occupy Nanjing, the commanders of the Third and Fourth Fleets will be able to move their troops south and bomb Hainan Island.

We should let Hainan Island be scorched earth. Let the Chinese of Hainan pay for the lives of nearly 40,000 elite soldiers of our Tenth Army. ”

"Yanagawa-kun, don't be blinded by anger, the empire's strategy is to first occupy the Chinese mainland and then expand to all of China.

Hainan Island is far away on the far south side of China, and it is not in the interests of the empire for the sake of a small Hainan Island.

If you really can't let go of your hatred for the Hainan Guards, I can only hand over the incomparably glorious task of occupying the Chinese capital to the 3rd and 11th Divisions.

They have also been hit hard in the Huaxing industry in Shanghai, and now they are also full of fire nowhere to start. I believe that as long as I talk about the task of capturing Nanjing, they will definitely forget their pain and attack Nanjing desperately.

You must know that this time we have left the army base camp, privately expanded the scope of attack, and even pointed at Nanjing, the capital of China.

Only when we win in the fastest time can we not be blamed? "General Matsui Ishine persuaded the commander of the Tenth Army, Lieutenant General Heisuke Magawa.

"However, Your Excellency Matsui, our Tenth Army suffered serious losses, and in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay, the 18th Division and the 114th Division of the Tenth Army suffered the greatest losses.

In order to occupy Nanjing as quickly as possible. I hope you can add a little more to our Tenth Army. "Lieutenant General Heisuke Kusakawa hoped to get some reinforcements, but General Matsui Ishine did not agree.

"Yanagawa-kun, the Kumamoto Division and the Sendai Division of the Second Division, where you belong to Tani Toshio, are known as the most combat-effective divisions of our Imperial Japanese Army. Don't you have faith in your soldiers? Matsui Ishone questioned Yanagawa Heisuke.

"No, I am absolutely confident that even if we only have one Sixth Division, we can still defeat the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in Nanjing. I'm just saying that if you want to occupy Nanjing in the shortest possible time, the strength of one division is obviously not enough.

If you insist that I take Nanking with one division and occupy it intact, I will never complain, and I will definitely work hard to complete the task you have given me. Liu Chuanping was ruthless in his desire to take revenge, and he was already ready to bloody Nanjing.

Seeing Yanagawa Heisuke's determination, Matsui Ishine nodded with satisfaction: "Don't worry, we won't joke with the lives of imperial soldiers."

I have ordered your old friend Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago to lead his 16th Division to fully cooperate with your 10th Army in attacking Nanjing.

In this battle of Nanjing, your 6th and 16th divisions will be the absolute main force, and all other divisions and regiments will be transferred to you as long as they have surplus troops. Matsui Ishone smiled.

"But Your Excellency Matsui, how can we escape the sight of the base camp when so many of our troops attack Nanjing?

I am afraid that as soon as we chase through the Wuxi defense line, the base camp will issue an order for us to stop the pursuit, and with so many troops and equipment, it is impossible to fully prepare for the complete movement to the vicinity of Nanjing without ten days. Yanagawa Heisuke asked again.

The other division commanders in the conference room also nodded, and it seemed that everyone knew that it was not easy to deceive the Japanese army base camp.

Matsui Shigen saw that everyone wanted to attack Nanjing, and he also had confidence in his heart, as long as everyone was single-minded, why not be able to attack Nanjing, the capital of China.

After three months of fierce fighting in Shanghai, not to mention that the Chinese army was physically and mentally exhausted, in fact, all the nearly 300,000 Japanese troops who participated in the battle were also very tired.

At this time, in the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese Kwantung Army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, including more than 50,000 killed and more than 50,000 wounded. Of the 50,000 people killed, 40,000 died in the Battle of Hangzhou Bay.

Therefore, when it comes to the Hainan Guards, don't say that the Japanese division commanders present here have itchy teeth of hatred in their hearts, and Matsui Shigen doesn't want to kill all the Chinese on Hainan Island to vent the hatred in his heart.

In the original history, the Chinese army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, and the Japanese army lost more than 10,000 killed and wounded more than 50,000.

However, in this history, the Chinese army still suffered more than 300,000 casualties, but the casualties of the Japanese army did double.

Moreover, not only did the Japanese casualties double, but even the Japanese Navy's Third and Fourth Fleets, which were originally unscathed, were seriously damaged.

One aircraft carrier was sunk, four destroyers were sunk, and 15 troop carriers were sunk to make up for the sunk, plus a few more warships damaged by mines, so it can be said that the current Third and Fourth Fleets have only 60 percent of their combat strength left.

Fortunately, what makes Matsui Ishine happy is that even if there is only sixty percent of the combat power left, they are still invincible for the Chinese navy, which has been completely annihilated.

However, it is also necessary to take into account the combat strength of the Hainan Escort Navy hidden in the shadows, although the Japanese Navy later made a preliminary reconnaissance in Hangzhou Bay, the submarine force of the Hainan Escort Navy should have sacrificed seven submarines.

However, judging from the information obtained by the Imperial intelligence department, Germany has privately sold at least 30 submarines in the past few years, and if all of them are sold to the Hainan Guard, then their Third and Fourth Fleets will still face great challenges.

In order to prevent the Hainan submarine force from entering the Yangtze River estuary and create trouble for the Japanese Navy to enter the Yangtze River valley in the future, he had already ordered the Third Fleet to blockade the Yangtze River estuary. At the same time, he ordered the Fourth Fleet to enter the Yangtze River valley and prepare to go straight to Nanjing.

Seeing the unanimous division commanders, Matsui Shigen said again: "We now have a total of nine divisions in the Central China Front, but in addition to the serious damage, Shanghai and the surrounding cities also need soldiers to occupy, so we can directly use the five divisions to attack Nanjing, with a total of 180,000 people.

And these 180,000 people will attack Nanjing from the east, south, and west in three directions in three ways, and Wuxi City will be captured by us in two days at most.

I now declare that the following meetings are not to be recorded and not to be disseminated.

Now I order that, after the capture of the city of Wuxi, all the troops rest for two days, replenish their ammunition, and immediately secretly march to Nanjing.

The 6th Division of the 10th Army attacked Nanjing from the south to the north, the 16th Division attacked Nanjing from the east to the west, and the 3rd and 114th Divisions attacked from the southeast to Nanjing.

The 11th Division attacked Nanjing from the southwest, and the rest of the divisions and regiments each formed a detachment of surplus troops and marched to Nanjing from their own stations.

I demand that all troops must depart from their garrisons by 1 December at the latest, arrive at the designated area in Nanjing by midnight on 6 December, and complete the tactical maneuvers of encircling Nanjing on three sides.

At the same time, all troops are not allowed to report the results of the battle to the base camp during the march, and all the results of the battle will be uniformly reported by the Central China Front.

From 1 December, the air force will focus on bombing strategic points in the periphery of Nanjing and the urban area, and the navy will reach the Yangtze River valley north of Nanjing when our army launches an all-out attack and coordinate with the army.

As long as we cooperate properly and keep the secret of our movement to Nanjing, when we reach the outside of Nanjing, the base camp will not be able to agree that we will not attack Nanjing.

Generals, although Nanjing is the ancient capital of China's six dynasties and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, from the perspective of war, Nanjing is an easy place to attack and difficult to defend, and if there is no strong force, Nanjing will not be able to defend it at all.

At this time, the Chinese army happened to lack heavy weapons, and at the same time, their tactics were backward, and the quality of their soldiers was very low.

What's more, there are only more than 100,000 remnants of the defeated army in Nanjing now, while our troops besieging Nanjing this time have nearly 200,000 people.

In Shanghai, our 200,000 Chinese troops who were full of fighting spirit and 800,000 Chinese troops who had lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and now they were also 200,000 imperial warriors who pursued with great victories, could not defeat the city of Nanjing, which was defeated and defended by hundreds of thousands of remnants?

In order to establish our immortal feats, generals, attack Nanjing. "Matsui Ishine made the final mobilization for the war.

"Onboard!" The commanders of the division were also enthusiastic, and everyone shouted long live the empire and long live the emperor to respond to the call of General Matsui Ishine.

Therefore, just after the end of this mobilization meeting, the Japanese army's attack on Wuxi and other places around Shanghai was greatly strengthened. At the same time, more supplies from within Japan were continuously sent to Shanghai, and then quickly delivered to the hands of various units.

As soon as this meeting ended, the huge war machine of the Japanese Central China Front was set in motion again, and they were ready to march towards Nanjing, the capital of China.