6.16 Propaganda War I

"Good news! Your Excellency Commander, Huang Haoran was assassinated, seriously injured and unconscious! In the words of the Chinese, today is really a double happiness! The two stumbling blocks of Jiangyin Fortress and Huang Haoran were actually taken down on the same day! I think His Majesty the Emperor must be bless us! ”

Matsui Ishone ignored Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma, who was dancing with his hands in too much excitement, and stood quietly in front of a huge sand table alone, thinking about a new battle plan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This huge sand table is the result of five days of busy work by the staff officers and intelligence personnel of the Central China Dispatch Army, and there is also the credit of Huang Haoran.

After the 16th Division of the Central China Army captured the defense line of the Changshu section, a huge sand table was found in a huge underground headquarters, although the Chinese defenders destroyed the sand table when they retreated, making the sand table unrecognizable. But from the remnants of the part, you can still see its former imposing and fine-grained degree.

The staff officers of the Central China Dispatch Army Command felt that they had been humiliated by Huang Haoran again!

Even the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, General Matsui Ishine, had never owned such a sand table, Huang Haoran was just a small commander in the Chinese army, how could he have something better than General Matsui Ishine?

The young staff officers launched a "battle" to defend honor, and then Matsui Ishine was given the new sand table.

Compared to those old battle maps, Matsui Shigen prefers to stand in front of the sand table and command his army, and it seems that Huang Haoran has not brought negative effects to the imperial army! At least this time, Matsui Ishone has reaped tangible benefits.

Admiral Matsui Ishone praised his young staff officers, who threw themselves into their new jobs with triumphant smiles.

The sense of honor is something that has penetrated into the blood of Japanese soldiers.

Jiangyin Fortress was still abandoned by Chinese in the end, Liu Xing did not have the determination to break the cauldron and sink the boat, Matsui Shigen deliberately did not besiege Jiangyin Fortress to death, but learned the ancient Chinese art of war to leave a way for the Jiangyin defenders, sure enough, Liu Xing couldn't hold on and escaped......

After destroying the artillery and facilities inside the fortress, the Chinese defenders of Jiangyin Fortress crossed the river and retreated from Jingjiang to Zhenjiang.

After taking Jiangyin, Changzhou is equivalent to fish and meat under the sword, and the Central China Dispatch Army can do it if it wants to!

Nanking! It's getting closer and closer to Matsui Ishone!

Matsui Shigen quietly looked at the lonely city by the Yangtze River on the sand table, and he wondered who the bald guy in the Nanjing government would let replace Huang Haoran as his opponent Matsui Shigen......

Gu Mosan or Chen Cixiu? Or, reuse General Zhang again?

These people were all defeated under Matsui Ishine in the Battle of Songhu, and to be honest, Matsui Ishine really didn't have any interest in these old faces.

The conquest of Nanjing, such an important battle, if there is no good opponent to set off oneself, it is really a pity......

These Chinese officers really don't have any ability!

So far, Matsui Ishine no longer dares to despise the grassroots officers and soldiers of the Chinese army, most of these Chinese soldiers who were born in peasants, as long as they have a good leader, they will exert unimaginable combat effectiveness, and their spirit of sacrifice is not inferior to that of Japanese bushido, and the defenders of Jiangyin Fortress are a good example.

After successively defeating several main divisions of the Central Army, no one in the Central China Dispatch Army thought that the 103rd and 112th Divisions, two little-known Chinese divisions guarding the Jiangyin fortress, could cause huge problems to the Japanese Army.

As a result, it was these two Chinese divisions that dealt a heavy blow to the Central China Dispatch Army!

The Chinese army and the Japanese army in the Jiangyin fortress have been fighting fiercely since the war, and because they rely on the strong fortress, the Japanese army has suffered a lot in Jiangyin.

The Chinese officers and soldiers of the 103rd and 112th Divisions fought to the death under the supervision of their division commanders, and in the face of the Japanese army's armored superiority, the 103rd and 112th Divisions even organized death squads to stuff grenades into the lookout holes of the combat vehicles, or used cluster grenades to stuff between the tracks to blow up the tracks of the Japanese combat vehicles.

The Japanese generals on the front line exclaimed, the people of China turned from sheep to tigers overnight!

If it weren't for the Japanese artillery fire that luckily hit Huo Shouyi, the commander of the 112th Division, who personally led the guards to the firing line to supervise the battle, causing the morale of the 112th Division to be greatly reduced, I am afraid that the time to conquer this important military stronghold of Jiangyin Fortress would have been a few days later......

Fortunately, there are more weak generals in the Chinese army, and existence like Huo Shouyi is really rare.

This is a bad thing for China, but a blessing for Japan!

The Central China Dispatch Army is still advancing too slowly! If there are constant setbacks like this, then the defeated Chinese army will get a respite, and those routs that can no longer be called soldiers will be strengthened again because of the encouragement of these news!

Velocity! Only by speeding up the attack can you avoid this from happening!

Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma finally got a response from his commander.

Attack! From now on, the divisions will carry out non-stop attacks!

Whoever invades Nanjing first will be awarded a medal by the emperor!

The latter sentence was a blank check promised by Matsui Ishone, and there was no guarantee at all, and Chief of Staff Iinuma Mamoru knew that Matsui Ishone was gambling, as long as Central China sent troops to capture the Chinese capital, then the cabinet and the emperor would immediately forget all the great rebellions done by Matsui Ishone.

If the Central China dispatch army fails, then Matsui Ishine will have only one way to go......

But Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma is willing to gamble with Matsui Ishone!

Because he had already seen the weak nature of the defenders of Nanjing!

Although there are still more than a dozen divisions of nearly 200,000 Chinese troops near Nanjing, only the Teaching Corps and the 99th Army are really combative, and the other troops were either disabled in the Battle of Songhu or a ragtag army that had just been transferred!

Although the Nanjing government shouted the high-pitched "defense of Nanjing" loudly, in fact they did not do much effective things!

Not to mention that last night, the Central China Dispatch Army also got the latest Nanjing city defense map! This is all thanks to the Japanese agents lurking in the city of Nanjing, these agents also assassinated Huang Haoran, the actual supreme military commander of the Nanjing garrison, but it is a pity that these Yamato warriors were also lost after this assassination operation!

Now that the Central China Dispatch Army is full of morale and knows oneself and the enemy, Chief of Staff Iinuma Mamoru really can't think of a reason why he can't take Nanjing City!

Perhaps, soon he will usher in the pinnacle of honor in this life!

Now what Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma has to do is to convey Commander Matsui Ishone's order accurately!

Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma turned around and was about to leave when he was suddenly stopped by Matsui Ishone, Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma turned 180 degrees in place to look at His Excellency the Commander, who was waiting for Matsui Ishine to speak.

"Iinuma-kun!" Matsui Ishone visibly hesitated as he spoke, as if he couldn't make up his mind, but he quickly convinced himself that he might as well be more despicable in order to win as soon as possible!

It's all for Greater Japan!

"You let the propaganda department spread the news of Huang Haoran's assassination and serious injury, this is a good opportunity to demoralize the Chinese army, we should not miss it!" Remember, the scale of propaganda might as well be larger, this is a propaganda war! ”

Chief of Staff Matsui Ishone immediately understood Matsui Ishone's intentions, indeed, this is an opportunity, this can not only hit the Chinese but also increase some confidence to the tired Japanese soldiers, Huang Haoran's record in Songhu has been spread very mysterious in the Japanese combat units, and now there is actually a phenomenon of some soldiers fearing to fight with the 99th Army.

In Changshu, after the 16th Division attacked the positions of the 99th Army several times without success, there were cases of soldiers disobeying the orders of officers, and the Japanese soldiers who took the lead were one of the victims of the rumors.

This is a very dangerous sign! It's time to clean up!

Chief of Staff Mamoru Iinuma decided to make good use of this assassination of Huang Haoran to make a beautiful article!

Over the next 24 hours, Matsui Shigen's sand table continued to show the latest progress of the various troops, and the Chinese army's defensive line was constantly breached, with the 10th Army capturing Yixing with the 114th Division, then the 18th Division capturing Guangde, and then the 114th Division capturing Liyang.

The entire perimeter defense line of Nanjing City presented an extremely unfavorable situation.

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Outside the city of Changzhou, an ordinary trench was crowded with dozens of tired Japanese soldiers, they belonged to a main wing of the 16th Division, since these Japanese soldiers landed, every day in continuous high-intensity combat, they are not steel bodies, they will also be tired.

Originally, the Japanese troops did not dare to rest in such a dangerous line of fire, but the Chinese defenders of Changzhou City were extremely frightened of the arrival of the 16th Division, and they abandoned all their peripheral positions early and began to flee for their lives, while some of the remaining Chinese soldiers hid in Changzhou City, where the gate was closed, and did not fire a single shot.

As a result, the commander of the 16th Division, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago ordered several wings at the forefront to begin to rotate and rest, and adopted a strategy of besieging but not attacking Changzhou City.

The rest of the 16th Division bypassed Changzhou at full speed and rushed towards Zhenjiang.

The left and right guards were a private, he was leaning against the wet trenches and napping, the left and right guards were too tired, he felt that all his physical strength had been completely drained of these days of fighting, and now he was just numb dragging his rifle and charging behind the group.

Fortunately, those Chinese soldiers had completely lost the will to fight, otherwise the left and right guards would have been killed a long time ago.

He took off a pair of leather shoes from the corpse of a Chinese major officer, but unfortunately these shoes were a little too big to fit the size of the left and right guards, because he was unwilling to wear the low-grade cloth shoes on the corpses of the Chinese soldiers, the left and right guards casually stuffed something into the leather shoes to support them.

As a result, the ill-fitting leather shoes cost him more physical strength.

The first thing he did when he stopped to rest was to take off his damn shoes, he wanted to get some fresh air on the soles of his broken and bleeding feet.

The Japanese soldiers who did this in the trenches were far more than the left and right guards, and the person in the 16th Division who still had a pair of intact soles of his feet must be an officer.

Most of the Japanese officers were on horseback, and they did not have to run long distances......

The Japanese soldiers who were picked by the officers and could not sleep patrolled back and forth in the trenches with bayonets, and sometimes they would accidentally step on the hands and feet of the sleeping people, and then it would attract a burst of scolding, these Japanese soldiers had completely ignored the requirement to be quiet when resting in place, because the Chinese troops on the opposite side did not even have the courage to attack with artillery fire once.

The left and right guards felt as if he was sleeping in a vegetable patch in his hometown in Kansai, and the blue sky and white clouds above his head were so beautiful.

"I heard that the 99th Army also joined the sequence of the Nanjing defenders, I don't know if we will meet this ace of China....."

There were Japanese soldiers who had woken up and chatted about the enemy they were about to face in addition to their hometown.

This time, they were talking about the 99th Army, when they heard the name, the left and right guards tightened their hearts, these days he has heard too many stories about this Chinese ace, although some stories sound like a fantasy, but the left and right guards still began to feel scared in front of the 99 Army's achievements one after another!

Major General Okawa Neiden 7 of the Marine Corps, and Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, commander of the 22nd Brigade, all fell under the guns of the 99th Army, and the Chinese general named Huang Haoran was like a mountain, pressing on the hearts of the 200,000 Japanese troops of the Central China Dispatch Army.

The left and right guards pricked up his ears, and he wanted to hear more of the conversation between the veterans.

It turned out that it was not like what Jun Cao and the officers said, those who were afraid of the 99th Army and Huang Haoran were some recruits, veterans, and they also had their fears.

"The 11th Division suffered a big loss under the general surnamed Huang, and now their entire division has been transferred to Taiwan, and I have a fellow villager who fought in the 11th Division, and he said that the 99th Army killed at least 10,000 people in their 11th Division! That General Huang is a demon! ”

"I've also heard from military officers who have studied Chinese history that the surname Huang is a very special surname in China, and the Yellow Emperor in Chinese mythology is also surnamed Huang, and that emperor killed Chi You! Chi You, it's a huge monster! It's like our legendary Japanese kappa! ”

"Oh ......! So there is such a saying? ......”

The left and right guards felt a little chill in his back, the 99th Army, is it really a monster army?

"Yaga! What are you bastards talking about! Want to upset the morale of the military? ”

Then there was the crackling of applause, and it was supposed that some officer had heard the conversation of the veterans.

"You stupid pigs see for yourselves! This is the latest military report sent by the Dispatch Army Command! Huang Haoran was assassinated in Nanjing, seriously injured and unconscious! That youkai you're talking about is dying now!! ”

"Really? Leader!! Is this true? ”

"You idiots should know how to read! Take it and see for yourself! ”

Hearing this, the left and right guards rolled over and climbed up, he wanted to see this newspaper.

There were many Japanese soldiers who had the same idea as the left and right guards, and soon, this military report, which still smelled of ink, spread all over the trenches.

All the Japanese soldiers who read the newspaper thought this news was really good! Finally, someone couldn't help but start to take the lead and roar:

"Huang Haoran is going to die! The Imperial Japanese Army was invincible! Onboard (Hooray)! Onboard (Hooray)! ”

The Japanese soldiers at the front line fell into an!

Matsui Ishone's strategy has paid off very well!

The last shadow in the hearts of the Japanese soldiers also disappeared, and they began to turn into beasts, into evil spirits, and pounced on one Chinese town after another......

Next, it's a propaganda war against the Chinese!

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Nanjing City, Shanxi Road.

At dawn, the Japanese plane patronized Nanjing City, and Dai Mengru was dragged up from the bed by Fang Xiaoqian, put on a few clothes and ran into the nearby air-raid shelter, but this time, they waited for a long time and did not hear the sound of the earth shaking before.

The air raid sirens outside are still sounding, that is to say, the Japanese bombers are still hovering over the city of Nanjing and have not left, but they are only circling but not bombing, what is going on?

If the air defense siren is not lifted, no one dares to run out to see what is happening, and perhaps, what tricks the Japanese are playing in the sky, it is possible that these Japanese planes are waiting for the Chinese Air Force to take to the air to meet them.

Speaking of the Chinese Air Force, Dai Mengru can only sigh deeply, since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, although the Chinese Air Force has also had the glory of "6:0" over the Lanqiao Bridge and the feat of driving a plane to sink a Japanese ship, but the Chinese Air Force is very weak after all, and has basically lost its combat capability after a few months of desperate combat with the Japanese invaders.

Even the skies over Nanjing, the capital of China, have gradually become undefended airspace, and only when the number of Japanese planes in the air raids is small, the Chinese Air Force will send out the remaining precious planes to encourage the citizens of Nanjing.

Looking at the posture today, the Air Force will not meet it......

There were many uniformed soldiers in the bomb shelter, and they chose to remain silent in the face of the reproachful gazes of the people around them.

Fang Xiaoqian pursed her good-looking cherry mouth and began to sulk, Dai Mengru asked in a low voice:

"Crazy Nizi, what are you doing?"

"I'm angry with these soldiers, what kind of iron-blooded spirit they advocate on weekdays, but now Little Japan has come to the door, but they want us people to suffer, and the military salary issued to them by the state doesn't know whether they are ashamed or not!"

Fang Xiaoqian spoke loudly, and Dai Mengru pulled her several times without holding it.

The faces of several soldiers standing in the bomb shelter began to turn red.

They don't want to be like this, they have also been on the battlefield, but the Japanese are so powerful, these people have been scared.

Fang Xiaoqian saw that these soldiers didn't dare to say anything, so she was even more unforgiving, she shook off Dai Mengru and walked in front of an officer, and then began to count down the other party in her high voice:

"Look at you officers, the Japanese planes are running faster than rabbits when they come, but we weak women have been left behind by you, and we ordinary people should stay inside, you people who eat military salaries, go to the entrance of the cave! You're not even scared of the sound of explosions, are you? ”

Under Fang Xiaoqian's squeeze, the soldiers in the air-raid shelter began to exchange places with the people, and Fang Xiaoqian walked back and pulled Dai Mengru to the depths of the air-raid shelter.

Because of Fang Xiaoqian's pungent attitude just now, the people around him subconsciously moved to the side, and a circle was vacant around Dai Mengru and Fang Xiaoqian.

Dai Mengru looked at the people around her in embarrassment, and then whispered to Xiaoqian:

"Look at you! These people are afraid of you! Can't you just be a little more restrained? Always so willful! ”

Fang Xiaoqian replied nonchalantly:

"I'm like this, I can't pretend to be like this, I blame these stinky soldiers, and I can't be happy about what I did!" (To be continued.) )