Chapter 257: The Last Moments of the Battle of Nanjing (4)

He said that his staff officers are different from the staff officers of the [***] team, and the so-called staff officers do not fart without a commander, and the staff officers of China are basically the goods of the stalls, and the words of the military commanders, and the staff system of the army is imitated from Prussia, and he has endlessly expanded the degree to which the Prussian military attaches importance to the staff system, resulting in the excessive arrogance and arrogance of the domestic military staff system, and they never obey the command of the military department, but instead control the military department, they are the birthplace of all conspiracies and tricks, and they are a group of extremely evil warmongers.

It is said that the senior staff officers of the divisions and regiments of the strategic combat units of the army can even bypass the division commanders and directly issue combat orders to the subordinate brigades and wings, and the army and navy staff officers of the empire are all a group of people who are extremely unsightly, and I am afraid that the only people who can get into their eyes are people from the same system, and the staff officers of the army know how to provoke a war, but they do not know how to end the war.

Is there no strategic goal in the national strategic decisions they designate? Don't know how to accept it when you see it? The military staff officers knew how to organize an attack, but they didn't know how to defend it. Their so-called guidance of the offensive is to use the lives of soldiers to accumulate a large number of them, and when they defend, they blindly "serve the country with broken jade"! The staff officers of Ben regarded the soldiers of their unit as a group of data, but they were just modifying some data, so what did it matter if many people died?

Moreover, the most difficult thing to understand is that the staff of the Chinese army will ignore the extremely important information collection and sorting and logistical supply, and in almost most of the wars, there are cases of a large number of soldiers of the Chinese army dying of freezing and starvation, and there are even more cases of starvation than death.

The staff officers of the army never paid attention to practical needs, they believed that the spirit of bushido was invincible, they did not pay attention to improving the existing weapons and equipment, and they always compared their own weapons with those countries that were not as good as them, so they were always full of confidence.

As a result, the combat units of the army took the Type 38 rifles made in the 19th century to fight the wars of the 30s and 40s of the 20th century, and because of the poor and weak national strength, even if they could build submachine guns that fired in automatic bursts, they could not afford this extravagant rate of fire and could not supply the necessary bullets, so they were forced to strangle the submachine guns.

The most surprising thing is that the staff systems of the army and navy have never had any plan for coordinated operations. Where do they go, as if they are completely outsiders in this war?

In fact, the offensive of the Yue army in Rehe has seriously exposed the serious problems of the Yue army in terms of logistical support, that is, the 150-mm field heavy howitzers attached to the two heavy artillery brigades and regiments of the Yue army attacking the Rehe side often do not have enough shells, and even the Type 38 75-mm field guns are short of ammunition, and the reason for this is very simple; although they can equip nine field heavy artillery brigades and regiments, their industrial-based ammunition production cannot afford the huge consumption of the troops on the front line.

The Central Branch Dispatch Army consumed too much ammunition under the city of Nanjing, so the Central China Dispatch Army on the Rehe side had to be forced to be careful. How can I fight this battle?

However, I am used to being aggrieved, and General Tadajun, who is the commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army, is even more aggrieved, and although Hatohiko Asakamiya, who is a prince, has been transferred to the General Staff Headquarters, he has not left Nanjing? Because of the sudden decree of His Majesty Emperor Hirohito, Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya was allowed to participate in the imperial army entry ceremony in Nanjing City as a representative of the imperial family.

The arrangement of Hatohiko staying in Nanjing to participate in the entrance ceremony made Tada feel very uncomfortable, but since there was an edict from Emperor Hirohito, there was nothing Tada could do.

Tada Jun stood in the headquarters and looked at the huge map with cold eyes, the troops had broken into the city walls of Nanjing, and the tragic street battles were advancing along the line of Xishui Gate, Guanghua Gate, and Zhonghua Gate to the Confucius Temple and Qinhuai, and a large number of troops were fighting fiercely with the Chinese defenders, as if victory was already in sight, but Tada Jun still felt uneasy.

Just like when he deployed the selection headquarters, he placed the staff headquarters and the telecommunications squad three hundred meters away, leaving only a few special lines in his headquarters, and almost everyone was puzzled by Tada's adjustment, but Tada never explained.

Because Tada Jun had carefully studied the establishment of the Rehe Army after the Battle of Chengde, he was very surprised that a small army of only a few dozen people could shake the tide of the war? After his analysis, this must be a well-trained and well-equipped small unit, these soldiers belong to the specially trained death squad, since they can go deep into Chaoyang and Jinzhou to destroy the logistics supply base and field airfield, then it is also possible to infiltrate along the chaotic battle line at the moment and attack their own headquarters, it is said that the small [***] unit that attacked the Jinzhou field airfield once wore imperial [***] uniforms.

However, all this is Tada Jun's speculation, and Tada Jun, who is the commander of the Central Branch Dispatch Army, naturally will not explain, because the explanation is tantamount to increasing the morale of the [***] and destroying the prestige of his own imperial army.

In fact, Tada Jun was more worried about the battle situation than the surprise attack of the [***] elite small troops, because the headquarters of the 3rd Division, the 9th Division, the 13th Division, the 16th Division, and the 114th Division all entered the city of Nanjing, and the fierce street fighting caused heavy casualties to the various units of the army that attacked the city of Nanjing, but to Tadajun's surprise, the Chinese defenders did not show any signs of retreat? And they also frequently carry out short counterattacks.

On June 20, 1937, the extremely tragic street fighting in Nanjing had reached the first level, in addition to deploying the 101st Division and the 38th Brigade of Reading Power and Reading Power to assemble on standby at the second peak of the Purple Mountain, Tada Jun put all the mobile troops he could draw into the street battle in Nanjing, but the urban area of Nanjing was like a bottomless pit?

Whenever the Chinese defenders were tired, Tada Jun put into his last assembled reserves, the Chinese defenders once again rejuvenated the spirit of the general counterattack, Tada Jun learned from the news from the front that the casualties in the [***] armbands are 87d, 88d, 74a, 51d, 58d, 57d, tiger ben and so on.

Through this information, Tada Jun judged that the investment of the Chinese defenders may have reached the limit, and the Nanjing defenders under the command of Zhang Xuewu may have no reserves? The fact that such a chaotic and mixed army could still defeat the Imperial Army of the Great Shoben Empire again and again made Tada Jun feel extremely embarrassed, especially Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who was always in the staff headquarters, seemed to have a bit of a gloating expression.

Tada Jun wanted to greet Hatohiko Asakanomiya with the sole of his shoe, but he wanted to think that an army general beat a prince of the imperial lieutenant general? Even if Tada Jun is a pig's head, he Tada Jun can't do such an impulsive thing, so Tada Jun simply comes to him out of sight and out of mind.

Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, has always been famous for its fat powder, but today this ancient city is buried and submerged by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

The Confucius Temple has been bombed into ruins, and between the ruins and broken walls, the Chinese officers and soldiers who are still alive have formed a fighting collective on their own, and used all the weapons that can fight back against the swarming Yue army.

However, this still could not deter the Japanese army, which had completely fallen into madness, and the officers and men were also scattered into squads of more than a dozen people, desperately infiltrating the rear of the Chinese defenders' front, and according to their understanding and experience, once the enemy appeared in the rear of the central [***], the central [***] would retreat and become a thousand miles away.

But this time my own experience did not play the slightest role, the infiltrated team was quickly wiped out by the same infiltration of the [***], almost all the houses in the neighborhood near the Confucius Temple were burned by the fire and then collapsed, no matter how the army bombed and shelled, there was always an endless counterattack on the Confucius Temple position, the time of each attack was extended from ten minutes to an hour, and then it was infinitely extended, there was no unified coordinated operation at all, Yue Jun himself fell into chaos.

The banks of the Qinhuai River are full of corpses, and there are rotten and deformed corpses floating in the river, which were left when the army forcibly crossed the Qinhuai River before, among which there are also many remains of Chinese defenders, and some sections of the river are actually congested by a large number of floating corpses, and the scene is accompanied by a raging fire, which makes people shudder.

In the fierce gunfire and cannonball, in the ruins and walls, the soldiers of the army and the soldiers of the Chinese [***] were chasing each other, and the P18 and P30 submachine guns made by Rehe, plus a small number of semi-automatic rifles, combined with the 24-type German-made grenades, often killed the soldiers all over the field with a single look.

In terms of firepower, the Taisho 11 light machine gun equipped by the army is inferior to the modified ZB-26 light machine gun, and the rifle firepower is even worse than the Zhonghua Type 1 semi-automatic rifle and the submachine guns and Mauser pistols that are distributed in large quantities, while the **, 92, and 95 grenades equipped by the army are not as far as the German-made Type 24 grenades, and the explosive power is also very different.

Even so, with the superiority in strength and artillery fire, the Yue army continued to attack along the ruins under the cover of the Type 95 light chariots, and there were gunshots, cannons, and battles everywhere! Nanjing is no longer the capital of gold dust, but has become a real purgatory through and through, where there is no life, even the sun is cold, all there is only death and decay, and the flowers of hell watered with blood bloom here.

(To be continued)