"Well, this is very similar to what we did at the beginning of the European War, when in Galicia all four of our armies were crushed at once, and the 3rd Army was almost completely annihilated. Fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor arrived with reinforcements from the Sixth and Seventh Armies. ”

At the headquarters in Nanjing, Lingel was chatting with Wu Ziyu, and now the commander was dispatching troops with the intention of teaching a lesson to the advancing Japanese 116th Division under Guangde City.

"How did you manage to do this, it seems that your emperor has never lost a battle?" Wu Ziyu was holding a strangely shaped hookah in his hand.

"Nor can it be said that our rivalry with the Russians in Galicia is still fierce, and Galicia has been occupied by the Russians several times, but since His Majesty the Emperor took over the command of the Eastern Front, the troops have never suffered heavy losses. At that time, the emperor had said that the results of the war were to destroy the enemy's living forces, not to defend the city, thus losing the mobility of the army. If you fall under siege by the enemy in order to maintain control of a city, the result is that the army is also wiped out by the enemy, and the city cannot be saved. But if you keep the strength of the army and keep depleting the enemy's strength, then you will eventually get control of these cities, and the army will remain intact. ”

"If you lose your land, you will lose both your land and your land. Save people and lose land, and people and land are gained. Has your emperor read Zeng Wenzhenggong's quotations on military management? Wu Ziyu explained to Linger the meaning of those two sentences.

"Ah, you already know this, but why do you want to defend some strategically important cities?" Lingle said.

Wu Ziyu couldn't help but be speechless for a while, it's true, everything is easier said than done.

"General Wu, in fact, before I came to China, I was very optimistic about the outcome of the war between China and Japan. The outcome of modern warfare is actually decided before the war begins. For example, the comparison of the war potential between China and Japan, their industrial capacity is about three times that of China, but the population is only one-seventh of China's, and China's war resources are much richer than Japan's, according to my estimates, your war capacity should be about three times that of Japan. But. Why are you in a passive position now? In fact, this is also a characteristic of modern warfare, in which the side with strong industrial and equipment capabilities will have an advantage in the early stages of the war, but in a long-term all-out war, the two sides will slowly return to a state of equilibrium, after which the side with greater war potential will gradually gain an advantage, and this advantage will become greater and greater. Actually, you still have German and Austrian assistance, why did the war go like this? Mainly because you were not prepared for war before the war, and neither the armaments nor the army could cope with a modern war. On the other hand, you have not yet learned how to take advantage of your demographic advantage, and you have not yet established a complete military service system and a modern war mobilization system. That is to say, your government is very inefficient and has not yet established a complete system of organization in the country that a modern state has. ”

"We are now recruiting a large number of reservists for training." Wu Ziyu said.

"But they have never received any military training before, which is the main reason why you need to adjust for a longer time, and not only will the troops who are not trained cause more casualties, but more importantly, they will mislead the judgment of the staff. For example, against a brigade of the Japanese army. We generally think that a regiment is enough, but in reality these untrained units need a division. We hope that when the fighting eases. All armies can be readjusted and trained. ”

"We are preparing to do this, and now the War Department is preparing to reorganize the army in the country, and unify the numbers and equipment." Wu Ziyu said that there is no shortage of ordinary army equipment in China at present, but it will take time for the army to reorganize and train.

The Japanese attack was fast, and the Japanese army in the center quickly broke through the defensive line constructed by the Chinese between Wuxi and Jiangyin. Began to advance in the direction of Nanjing. The sound of artillery around Nanjing rumbled, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the flames of war had spread to the line from Zhenjiang, Danyang to Jintan. The Japanese army marched westward along both sides of the Yangtze River, but was blocked by the line of Zhenjiang and Yizheng.

Since the Japanese naval fleet was blocked in Jiangyin, the Chinese naval river defense fleet in Zhenjiang was under the command of Chen Shiying. The use of naval guns to provide fire support for the army is now the turn of the Japanese army to suffer from the navy.

The Japanese sent fighter planes to bomb the Chinese river defense fleet in Zhenjiang, and the Chinese fighters taking off from Nanjing, Wuhu, Anqing, Hefei, and other airports were also attacking the attacking Japanese troops, and the two sides launched fierce air battles over Zhenjiang. Although the number of Chinese fighters is only one-third of that of the Japanese army, the performance of the Chinese side is slightly superior to that of the Japanese planes, and the competition between the two sides in the air is very fierce, and dozens of fighters will be lost every day.

Colonel Kukochi was ordered to rush to Nanjing, and the 3rd Army Aviation Division, which was in charge of Nanjing's air defense, encountered a squadron of Japanese fighters using a new type of aircraft during the air battle at Jurong, and the pilots judged that it should be American-made P-26 fighters.

This is a very important situation, and it is possible that the Japanese army received military aid or arms from the United States.

Wu Ziyu ordered the troops defending Jurong to send the collected wreckage to Nanjing, where two of them were shot down in an air battle on December 6.

When Kukochi arrived in a courtyard next to the Nanjing Provincial Headquarters, he saw that the yard was piled up with some fragments of aircraft, the engine had been broken, but the two landing gears were still intact. Ulysses. General Ringel also arrived at the scene, looking down at a damaged engine nameplate. He was also flanked by several Chinese generals, as well as several officers in army air uniforms.

"It should be an American aircraft, and the nameplate of the engine shows that the manufacturer is Ericson Engines, and this kind of aircraft is a 'toy gun' made by the Americans?" General Lingle said.

"That's right, the P-26 has a fixed landing gear, which looks very noticeable in the air." A modest Chinese army officer said, but they appear to have been improved and are faster than Japan's Type 96 land battles. ”

"It's not a Boeing P-26, it's a P-36 produced by Curtis, and some of them use fixed landing gear, called the Hawker-75, and the U.S. Army Air Corps has ordered about 360 of them, and I think this should be this aircraft." "It seems that the Japanese bought a batch of these planes from Curtis-Hawk because they didn't produce enough of them," Kukocchi said. ”

"It's not a good situation anyway, and it needs to be reported to the country immediately." Ringle said, then turning to a Chinese general, "It seems that you still have a long way to go if you want to defeat the Japanese." (To be continued......) R1292