Chapter Eighty-Nine: Bloody Nanjing (8)

Xue Ru left Shuiximen, and Feng Shengfa was still excited at this time. At the cost of one company of casualties, the 58th Division annihilated more than half of the 102nd Wing, and the number of devils who died in the city reached more than 2,000.

The result was 10 to 1, which was simply amazing. Now he finally understands why Nanjing didn't believe Xue Ru and them when they knew that they had annihilated a wing with a corps of 3,000 people, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, even if their own brigade commander and regiment commander reported, they would think that they had lied about the military situation and risked their military exploits.

With the 58th Division, you want to annihilate half of the wing? I don't know if I've ever beaten someone. Believe it or not, the devil's corpse is there anyway.

In fact, the Japanese army did not have any special tactics, and it was just a frontal attack by aircraft and artillery, relying on the training and accurate shooting of soldiers. Offensive warfare, there are no special command tactics.

But he happened to encounter the more rigid tactics of the national army, and fought a regular war with the Japanese army in a dignified manner. What era is it, do you think it's ancient? The two sides are lined up, soldier to soldier? Thought it was medieval European knights, lining up, beating drums, attacking like fools?

When Shigeharu Suematsu figured out how the walls were arranged, there was really nothing he could do for a while. The curved trajectory of * is used, but unfortunately there are not such close heavy mortars, and the accuracy of the grenadier is very poor.

They are all soldiers, and he finally came up with the tactic of airplanes, and immediately asked the command to help with the planes. King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace was angry because the attack from the south was blocked, but unfortunately the attack on both sides did not go well. It is necessary to increase the offensive on both sides, reduce the frontal pressure, and ensure the victory of the 6th and 9th Divisions. A squadron of aircraft was sent to support the attack on the east and west.

Xue Ru's side is even simpler, the Japanese army has heavy * artillery. Each shelling was like a landslide cracking the ground, in a vain attempt to destroy the entire city wall. This also gave Xue Ru a chance, and finally after the explosion of a cannonball, the Shuixi Gate was blown open, which was the city wall at the city gate, and even the city towers above collapsed together.

This situation did not make Chiba Kotaro, who commanded the attack, faint with excitement. At this time, I see how the Chinese army still holds on and directs the artillery to concentrate on bombing this point. Planes also fired wildly at the place, preventing the Chinese army from plugging the gap again.

The officers and men of the 58th Division in the city were secretly having fun and arranged ambush positions around them. The number of the 58th Division far outnumbered the number of Japanese troops, and of course it did not care.

Chiba Kotaro Osa is much smarter than Kengo Tano, this distance is not wide, too many troops are impossible to enter at once, he also took a large team as a unit, attacked inside, under the cover of machine guns, attacked from the gap into the city.

But this gradual approach gave the 58th Division the opportunity to destroy the Japanese army. He didn't know that this was a trap, and thought that it would take time for the troops on both sides around him to concentrate here, so he ordered the attack to be fast. The soldiers hiding in ambush in the fortifications on both sides, and the devils who rushed in fiercely, Chiba Kotaro's tactics became fueling tactics.

His soldiers kept coming in, they were being wiped out, but there was no counterattack, and the Japanese were not going to retreat. Having already entered the city, there is no reason to retreat, so you can only increase your attack.

It wasn't until the strength of the two brigades was filled in that Chiba Kotaro Osa understood the taste? An order was given to stop the offensive. When the soldiers inside finally escaped, Chiba Kotaro almost fainted again.

Left behind him, his wing was less than a brigade, completely incapacitated, and had to report to the brigade commander. Major General Mitsuzaburo Akiyama unexpectedly did not reprimand him, but reported the situation to the division commander. Because he heard an important thing, that is, the troops in the city had troops with red silk scarves around their necks.

"Snow Fox Brigade?" This is an important situation. Snow Fox in Jiading, Kunshan annihilated two wings, and then disappeared, a few days later appeared in Tianwang Temple, and almost wiped out a wing, before and after the Japanese army has lost tens of thousands of people in the hands of Snow Fox, for this purpose sent the army headquarters to issue an order, let the troops pay attention to this mysterious Snow Fox Brigade, the secret service increased its strength, to find out what the mysterious Snow Fox is all about.

Their emblem was a red silk scarf, so when he knew that there was a snow fox that had disappeared for a while here at the Shuixi Gate, Akiyama Mitsuzaburo did not reprimand Chiba Kotaro Osa, but ordered the troops to stop the attack, transfer the 66th Wing of the reserve, seal this side, take an encirclement and defensive position, and report the situation to the division commander.

When Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu received the report, he almost believed the rumors. There are also some rumors on the Japanese side, that is, the captain of the Snow Fox Brigade is a goblin and a fox spirit. At first, no one believed it, but according to the reports of the Japanese soldiers who ran back, the tactical department of the Imperial Army believed that the tactics were a little peculiar and the Imperial Army failed because of carelessness.

The Japanese military high-level did not believe in any myths and ghosts, but only reminded all troops that they should be cautious once they encounter a snow fox during battle, whether it is a fox spirit or not, but it is a fact that Xue Ru is as cunning as a fox and full of wit.

That's all there is, so as soon as Akiyama Mitsuzaburo heard that a snow fox appeared, he didn't scold Chiba Kotaro Osa, but stopped the attack and reported to the division commander.

In the headquarters of the dispatch army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asaka Palace touched his chin, and he couldn't understand why the Snow Fox Brigade was so powerful, their weapons and equipment were not advanced, and there were not many of them.

The chief of staff, Major General Fan Zhaoshou, was also puzzled: "Your Excellency, commander, who is the snow fox?" Why the intelligence agencies don't have information. This time, the 114th Division and the 16th Division suffered heavy losses, which were greater than the casualties of the entire offensive battle, I'm afraid it's hard to explain, right? ”

Lieutenant General Hatohiko of Asakamiya also understood that Matsui Ishine attacked Shanghai for three months, and how many people did more than 200,000 troops lose? The total number of casualties was only more than 30,000, but the wounded in the hands of the snow fox were only two wings, and the total number reached more than 7,000.

Together with today's losses, it turned out to be close to a division. This responsibility is not small. But the Japanese knew very little about the snow fox. Immediately said: "Let Chiyoshi Iijima come to see me." ”

Chiyoshi Iijima was the head of the Shanghai secret service, responsible for intelligence on the occupied areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Because Nanjing is a place that must be attacked and occupied, Japanese spies have been operating in China for many years, and it can be said that there have been arrangements for several decades to infiltrate all aspects of China.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan began to covet China, and it can be said that for hundreds of years, they coveted this continent, and of course, they did not want to take it for themselves all the time, and spared no effort to collect information about China.

When the Chinese Revolution began, Japan discovered that the overthrow of the feudal imperial system was a world trend, and China's decaying Qing Dynasty was bound to be overthrown.

Japan, which had already emerged from poverty and moved toward prosperity and modernization, immediately began to implement their plan. He took the initiative to help the Chinese revolution, supported the activities of the revolutionary party, accepted Chinese students studying in Japan, and even contributed money and people to help the Chinese revolution.

In Japan's view, they are investing in strengthening Japan's influence on the Chinese Revolutionary Party and wanting to one day take control of the government. Japan's goal has been achieved, and the Chinese revolutionary party has received Japan's favor and is very grateful to Japan. The Beiyang government and some of those who controlled the Chinese regime began to lean toward Japan.

But whether it is Yuan Shikai or Duan Qirui, Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin, they do not completely listen to Japan, and the Chinese people do not agree, which makes Japan feel very angry.

But they also achieved one goal, which was to support a large number of pro-Japanese factions in China. Even in the current national government, more than half of the people are studying in Japan, and they envy Japan and are inclined to Japan.

Without these uncertainties, how could Japan dare to attack China, which is like a behemoth, and still think that it can swallow it, that is, the Japanese government understands that Japan's rule over China will not be resisted.

They adopted a combination of grace and might, on the one hand, under the banner of goodwill, on the other hand, to increase the bloody massacre, thinking that in this way they could frighten the cowardly, win over those who have milk and mothers, and eliminate those who resolutely resist. Japan will be able to control all of China.

The emperor's belief that he could succeed, and that the Japanese government and the opposition also believed that it could succeed was based on two points: First, China is an agrarian country, and small-scale peasanism makes the people have no serious national heart, but only look at their own interests and be short-sighted. Confucianism is an extreme culture, and this extremely selfish culture is different from the Confucianism of the Han and Tang dynasties. It is a culture emasculated by the Manchus in order to enslave their rule.

Second, there are two dynasties in China that were foreign invasions, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, neither of which were ruled by the Han nation, but for hundreds of years, the Chinese accepted them, recognized the rule of the Manchu Qing, accepted the robe and horse coat, and also accepted the shaving of the head and the braids.

Japan is much more numerous than the Eight Banners of the past, and it is also much more advanced than their barbarian nation, with a population of hundreds of millions, which can be compared with the Manchus with a population of only a few hundred thousand back then. Therefore, it is no problem to think that Japan rules China and turns him into Japan.

In the 300 years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to make the Han people accept them, they wantonly emasculated Confucian culture, greatly strengthened inclusiveness, overemphasized humility and benevolence, blindly arrogant, regarded themselves as the center of the world, and did not know what the world was like. The Han people were very complacent and believed that they had assimilated the Manchus. In fact, when they all shaved their hair, kept braids, and knelt down, they had already been assimilated by the Manchus.

Since the barbaric Manchu Qing Dynasty could do it, the Great Japanese Empire could do it too, so no one in Japan doubted whether it would be able to conquer China with a population of 400 million with a population of 100 million.

What Japan hated the most was the emergence of the Red Soviets in China, and they accepted the Soviet Union's system, which Japan could not allow. Therefore, it has become a pretext for attacking China.

What is even more infuriating is that Chiang Kai-shek cooperated with the Communist Party at the last moment and resolutely resisted the war, which was also somewhat unexpected by Japan, and the Chinese's sense of resistance was also very tenacious.

Japan did not know that the Republic of China was not the Qing Empire, and that the Xinhai Revolution, the May Fourth Movement, the opening of the country, and Marxism-Leninism were all changing China. The national consciousness and the national spirit were not the time of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the battle in Shanghai has fully proved this.

If Huairou can't do it, then conquer it by force, didn't the Manchus also use force to unify China? On the 10th of Yangzhou, the three massacres of Jiading, bloodbathed Sichuan, swept the south of the Yangtze River, and made the country with a majority of Han nationality submit.

Great Japan can do the same, so Japan is very bold to give the order for massacres, and everywhere it passes is bloody.

But this did not intimidate the Chinese, but provoked a stronger resistance. Out of nowhere, a snow fox, a unit led by a woman, caused heavy casualties to the imperial army.

What frightened Matsui Ishone the most was that in the place where Snow Fox fought, there were no wounded soldiers, no prisoners of war, all corpses, and then crippled people with severed limbs. This method of killing to stop killing and repaying debts with blood will affect other Chinese troops and cannot but make Japan frightened.

If you really want to fight like this, Japan is not an opponent. To be sure of defeating China is to understand the characteristics of the Chinese, but this Snow Fox Brigade is obviously not like this.

Originally, they disappeared, there was no movement, and the Japanese side almost forgot about this snow fox, but today the two wings were disabled and almost completely annihilated, which made King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace think of it again, and he can't help but pay attention to this gradually rising snow fox brigade.

"Report" Iijima Chiyoshi Nakasa, the head of the Shanghai secret service, rushed over, and whether it was for political or military reasons, the Japanese secret service had been advancing with the army. Chiyoshi Iijima has been appointed as the head of the secret service in Nanjing, and of course he is looking for things in Nanjing.

King Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace was in a bad mood, so he didn't have any smile on him: "Iijima-kun, how much do you know about the Snow Fox Brigade, and how much do you know about Xue Ru?" Detailed reports. ”