3.42 Matsui Ishone's counterattack

Throughout the day of December 7, there was an exchange of fire between the Nanjing garrison and the Japanese army in several directions, but the scale was not large, and Matsui Ishine was condemned in Japan because of the fact that the 114th Division had been severely damaged, and the angry Lu Xiang was eager to remove Matsui Ishine from his post immediately. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The overwhelming propaganda of the Western world was once again blocked out of the country by the Japanese government, whether in China or in Japan, the Japanese military's external caliber is very consistent, they insist that the 114th Division was only ambushed by the Chinese army, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu stepped on the mines laid by the Chinese army and was loyal to the emperor, Major General Akiyama Mitsuzaburo and Major General Obaofu, the two brigade commanders, took over the command of the troops in time, and finally broke through the siege of the Chinese army and conquered Lishui County. In total, nearly 20,000 Chinese troops were wiped out in this operation, and the Japanese casualties were 716.

The War Department also specially took a set of clothes from Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu's Japanese home and buried him, and the spiritual seat of Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu was placed at the Yasukuni Shrine, becoming a "famous general" worshiped by the Japanese people!

In order to smash the "rumors spread" by the Nanjing Garrison, reporters from the Central China Dispatch Army took a large number of photographs of the 114th Division in Lishui County, and in order to cooperate with the propaganda of the 18th Division, which was relatively close to Lishui, they borrowed a large number of "stand-ins" for the 114th Division, and these photos of the 114th Division "correcting its name" soon appeared in major newspapers in Japan, and the Japanese people would never have thought that their more than 10,000 Yamato men had been buried in Nanjing, China.

The Japanese army did not launch a fierce attack on the 7th, which was also affected by this incident, and Huang Haoran also took advantage of this rare opportunity to fine-tune Nanjing's defense system.

The route to cross the river was officially opened, and a large number of Nanjing citizens were sent to Pukou while transporting the 1st Army back and forth, and then began to flee by land, and the number of civilians in Nanjing began to decrease rapidly, but unfortunately soon the Japanese army discovered this latest move of the Nanjing garrison, and the planes originally used by the Japanese to bomb the urban area of Nanjing were all transferred to Pukou, and on the river between Xiaguan and Pukou, there were bombs and flying aviation machine gun bullets everywhere, The poor number of anti-aircraft artillery of the Nanjing garrison could not confront the Japanese air force full of sky, Huang Haoran had to stop this river crossing route that was about to turn into hell during the day, and changed to night transportation, although the transportation efficiency at night was far less than that during the day, but at least it would be much safer, and the ships that Huang Haoran could use to transport citizens were originally limited, and they could not withstand the consumption rate during the day.

The Japanese general who asked the Japanese Air Force to change the target of the bombing was none other than Matsui Ishone, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, who was forced by Huang Haoran to almost fall.

They took advantage of the fiasco of the 114th Division to frantically attack the officials of the "main war faction", and Matsui Ishine was the favorite target of the "main peace faction", but fortunately, Emperor Hirohito once again chose to remain silent at a critical time, in fact, the emperor was doing this to give Central China time to send troops!

Although Matsui Ishine is reluctant to admit it, Huang Haoran's "miraculous resurrection" did put considerable pressure on the Japanese military! In the eyes of laymen, Huang Haoran's comeback is just a change of chief officer of the Nanjing Garrison, but in the eyes of the generals of the military department, Huang Haoran becoming their opponent again will immediately increase the combat effectiveness of the Nanjing Garrison by several grades, and the failure of the 114th Division is ironclad proof!

If it weren't for Huang Haoran, how could the Japanese army have had such a fiasco? Now with Huang Haoran, the "victorious general", the morale of the Chinese army in Nanjing will inevitably be rapidly improved, coupled with Huang Haoran's good use of the Japanese army's propaganda mistakes, the Japanese army's previous "heart attack" has now become a laughing stock! It became evidence that they were afraid of fighting Huang Haoran!

The Central China Dispatch Army really lost the battle and lost people this time, and it was disgraced to go home!

The plan of transferring new army divisions from Northeast China and Taiwan to land in East China has been put on the agenda, and the proposal to replace Matsui Ishine as commander of the Central China Dispatch Army with Prince Hatohiko, an official of the Asahika, is also very popular in the military department, and Matsui Ishine feels a serious sense of crisis!

So when he found out that Huang Haoran had begun to evacuate a large number of Nanjing citizens, Matsui Shigen was in a hurry!

Huang Haoran can't be allowed to evacuate the citizens of Nanjing!

With Matsui Shigen's understanding of Huang Haoran, if the Nanjing garrison successfully withdrew Nanjing into an empty city, then Huang Haoran would have no pressure at all, if he was bent on defending, then the Central China Dispatch Army would have to pay an extremely heavy price if it wanted to conquer Nanjing, if Huang Haoran wanted to leave, then with the strength of the Nanjing Garrison, it would be impossible for the Central China Garrison to swallow the more than 200,000 Chinese troops in one bite, Huang Haoran simply advanced and retreated freely, completely occupying the initiative!

Be sure to tie Huang Haoran's hands and feet!

After listening to the fight with Huang Haoran and the study of Huang Haoran's information, Matsui Shigen found that Huang Haoran showed great respect for life, and the 99th Army never left their wounded and sick is the best proof, in the eyes of Matsui Shigen, this very noble character is actually Huang Haoran's weakness!

If you want to trap Huang Haoran in Nanjing City, the best way is to trap the citizens of Nanjing inside!

So Matsui Ishine personally made a plan to block the Yangtze River waterway!

He telegraphed and ordered the 3rd Flying Regiment to cooperate with the Central China Dispatch Army to bomb all the wharves and riverbanks in Nanjing day and night, so as to paralyze Nanjing's river crossing route! This is Matsui Shigen's first gift to Huang Haoran!

Matsui Ishone's second gift was an iron bucket array that surrounded Nanjing! He telegraphed all Japanese divisions and regiments around Nanjing to coordinate operations, maintain a good distance between combat units at all levels, and adopt a front-line horizontal push to convince the people.

Although this style of play is more conservative, but it also gives full play to the advantages of the Japanese army's relatively balanced combat quality, Huang Haoran's Nanjing garrison only a few troops can fight, this can be seen from the battle of Songhu and the 114th division was not completely annihilated, the first line of flat push also made Huang Haoran have no possibility of concentrating forces to attack the Japanese army all the way, a hard war of attrition, how can the Nanjing garrison, which has been injured, be the opponent of the Central China Dispatch Army?

Matsui Ishine stood next to the map and watched the red arrows indicating the Japanese army approaching Nanjing step by step, and the encirclement of the various divisions of the Central China Dispatch Army gradually began to tighten, when this elite Japanese army division launched an attack at the same time, that is, the day when Huang Haoran's Nanjing garrison was destroyed!

In the first wave of attacking Japanese divisions, Matsui Ishine chose the 16th, 3rd, 9th and 6th divisions, and the power of these 100,000 troops launched at the same time can only be described as overwhelming!

Huang Haoran! Do you have a solution to my trick?

Looking at the starry sky outside the window, Matsui Ishone showed a confident smile!

This time the battle plan was perfect! No flaws!

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Nanjing, Operations Department of the Urban Defense Command.

The bad news is one after the other!

First of all, the Japanese army did not stop bombing the wharves and waterways at night, and the night transportation also suffered huge losses, and other losses could be made up, but the ships crossing the river were blown up and sunk one less one, and shipbuilding was not something that could be completed in three or two days!

There is no solution to this side of the matter, several army commanders on the front line sent the battle situation at the same time, after the summary and analysis of Fan Jie and the operational staff, Huang Haoran heard the answer he didn't want to hear--- the Japanese army adopted the tactics of front-line pushing, the Nanjing garrison no longer has a hole to drill, and the Japanese army fights with strength, this is Huang Haoran's least favorite way to play, he knows best what kind of troops he has in his hands, and now except for the 99th Army, no army can fight with a Japanese division for more than three days, If calculated according to this consumption rate, Huang Haoran would have thrown out the 200,000 troops without a penny, and this Nanjing City would be lost for more than ten days!

The third bad news comes from Sasaki, the Japanese army has fully activated the new cipher code from ten o'clock in the evening, and it is not yet known whether the Japanese army found out that their cipher code has been deciphered or a routine replacement, although Sasaki said it very tactfully, but there is only one meaning in Huang Haoran's ears!

From now on, he can no longer grasp the movements of the Japanese army! He has always looked at the battle plan of the Japanese army to arrange the troops, but this time, he will be blind!

"How long will it take to decipher the new code of the Japanese army?"

This is the question that Huang Haoran is most concerned about, Fan Jie said it for him, Sasaki thought for a while, and then gave a sly answer:

"There is no code that cannot be deciphered at this time, it just takes a little more time......"

This is the answer that was said and not said, Fan Jie did not embarrass Sasaki, these "Japanese traitors" have already done a very good job, I heard that dozens of Japanese soldiers captured from the Tiansheng Bridge have been converted by Sasaki, it seems that this guy is indeed a genius in betrayal!

After Sasaki left, Fan Jie wanted to give Huang Haoran relief, who knew that he hadn't opened his mouth Huang Haoran actually laughed, Fan Jie couldn't help but ask Huang Haoran why he was laughing, Huang Haoran replied:

"It's so bad! Could there be anything worse? I don't think it's going to be anymore! Rise from the ashes! It's a good thing! There are not so many messy ideas, and people are decisive! Definitely! We'll see! I don't believe that Matsui Ishone doesn't make mistakes! As long as it's people! There will be mistakes! I'm just waiting for his moment! ”

Fan Jie didn't expect Huang Haoran to get rid of a series of bad news so quickly, yes, that's the worst case! It can only get better in the future, and it can't be bad!

Fan Jie felt that he had also become happy, and since the commander wanted to catch Matsui Ishone's fault, Fan Jie decided to keep his eyes open!

"Commander! According to your idea, we need to keep a strong reserve in our hands! In this way, I can give Matsui Ishine a fatal blow at the most opportune time! I think, let's leave our 99th Army! ”

As soon as Fan Jie made up his mind, he threw himself into his work with twelve points of enthusiasm, he pushed a few wargames around on the sand table, and then gave Huang Haoran new advice.

Huang Haoran shook his head and vetoed Fan Jie's idea, he walked to the sand table and pulled up the flags representing several divisions of the 99th Army, and then said to Fan Jie:

"Matsui Ishone, cunning and cunning! He knew that my 99th Army was the most combat-effective unit in the Nanjing Garrison, and if my 99th Division did not show up, he would know that I would definitely have spare strength, so it must not be the 99th Army that remained to the end! ”

"That'...... Which divisions to choose? It is necessary to have combat effectiveness and not let the devil care too much, this, but it is very difficult to do! ”

Fan Jie felt that what Huang Haoran said was very reasonable, but under such conditions, the choice was too narrow, and no matter how you looked at it, no troops met such standards......

"Just keep this one... And this one......"

Huang Haoran said as he pulled and plugged on the sand table, and when he was done, Fan Jie's eyes suddenly brightened!

"Wonderful! It's wonderful! Commander! What a clever calculation! ”

"Less sycophants! It's just a plan, and you know, the plan doesn't always keep up with the changes! Adapt to the situation......"

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On the night of December 7, Zhougang's pre-10th Division and the 1st Brigade of Teaching took the initiative to retreat, Chen Bing joined forces with Xie Wendong's independent 47th Brigade on the front line of Soxing Lingguan and Fangshan, while Hengxi's 36th Division and 121st Division retreated to Guli and Taowu, of which the 36th Division was closest to the 6th Division in Lukou. These three regiments were originally used to make up for Shangguan Yunxiang's 11th Army Corps, but Huang Haoran wasted his strength to get it from Chief Gu, for these three supplementary regiments, Huang Haoran almost didn't shed tears on the radio, Chief Gu was originally the best candidate to defend Nanjing in the eyes of the highest authorities, and later Tang Shengzhi jumped out and became commander-in-chief, Chief Gu naturally knew that Tang Shengzhi was a disguise, but it was Huang Haoran who really stood for him, out of compassion, Chief Gu handed over the three supplementary regiments to Huang Haoran, Huang Haoran let the three regiments cross the river at Ma'anshan, and reorganized and supplied one regiment each of the 139th Division, the Teaching Corps, and the 36th Division nearby, which was also the first time that various units of the Nanjing Garrison Army had received new recruits in more than ten days.

Seeing these recruits, people feel that they see hope, and the government is still willing to throw the army in, which means that they have not been abandoned!

First the 1st Army, then the three supplementary regiments, the Nanjing Garrison began to be infected with a disease called "joy", and it was the addition of these tens of thousands of people that made the officers and men of the Nanjing Garrison feel warm......

On the night of December 7, both China and Japan showed surprising restraint, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides waited at such a close distance, and even the incident of grabbing and stealing fire rarely happened!

It's just that on the river between Shimonoseki and Pukou, the Japanese planes are still desperately tossing, and countless flares falling from the sky have illuminated the river into daylight. Matsui Shigen is in a relationship with Huang Haoran......

In the early morning of December 8th, all the divisions and regiments of the Central China Army arrived at the predetermined combat area, at three o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army began to distribute breakfast, each soldier got two rice balls, and each squad also got two canned beef, in order to ensure the supply of ammunition and military supplies, the Japanese army did not have enough transportation force to transport other materials, in the eyes of the Japanese commander, food was also counted as "other", so the Japanese troops on the front line could only get such a simple breakfast, even if they were about to rush to the line of fire!

Japan is still too poor, and only by getting the mainland can Japan grow up strongly!

Matsushita Hiroshi is a second lieutenant officer from Shikoku, and in the 18th Division, there are many people who become adjutants at his age, but Matsushita Hiroshi has never been promoted! So there are rumors that Matsushita Hiroshi has never been promoted because he has an affair with the chief's wife, but no one knows whether this rumor is true or not.

Matsushita Hiroshi ate the rice balls assigned to him and leaned into the trench to close his eyes and recuperate, the rice balls he ate just now were very hard, obviously not made of fresh rice, the 18th Division advanced too fast, so that the logistics and baggage troops were far behind, I heard that the entire 56th Infantry Wing now has only one cooking squad, and it is an incredible thing for more than 20 cooking soldiers to prepare food for 3,000 people, especially when it is not allowed to light open fires on the battlefield, These cooks must have done their best to complete their mission.

It's really nostalgic for the rice balls made by Yuriko, Yuriko's rice balls are fragrant and soft and those rice balls made by the cook just now are simply the gap between heaven and earth, at this time, Yuriko should still be asleep!

I wonder if she misses me......

Matsushita Hiroshi knew that there were many stories about him among the junior officers and soldiers, and those presumptuous soldiers would sometimes say it loudly during meals, and it was impossible for Matsushita Hiroshi not to hear it!

These brainless guys! I don't know where I heard those words, how could Yuriko be the chief's wife? She is the lover of Matsushita Hiroshi's childhood sweetheart, and it was because of Yuriko's beauty that she attracted Major General Ono Kamefu, Yuriko rejected Major General Ono's admiration and chose to be engaged to Matsushita Hiroshi, but as a result, he annoyed Major General Ono Kamefu, who has a perverted possessiveness for beauties, and Major General Ono Kamefu actually proposed to Matsushita Hiroshi to exchange the rank of Shaozo for Yuriko's first night, but Matsushita Hiroshi failed to control his emotions and pulled out his sword against Major General Ono Kamefu!

Of course, nothing happened, but when Matsushita Hiroshi returned to the unit, he found that he had been transferred to the 23rd Infantry Brigade, and his brigade commander was none other than Major General Ono Kamefu!

This is definitely a premeditated revenge!

After that, Matsushita Hiroshi's efforts were ignored by his superiors, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't add any honor to him, and the rank of second lieutenant was two years!

What's even more odious is that Major General Ono Kamefu would come every once in a while to ask Matsushita Hiroshi the same question:

"Have you figured it out? What I said to you still validates! ”

Except for Hiroshi Matsushita, no one understands what Major General Kamefu Ono is saying! Hiroshi Matsushita can't do anything but fire in his eyes every time!

Since the landing of the 18th Division in Songhu, Major General Ono Kamefu has used all kinds of means against Matsushita Hiroshi, Matsushita Hiroshi's squad has always been ranked at the front of the 23rd Infantry Brigade, Major General Ono Kamefu obviously wanted to kill Matsushita Hiroshi by the hands of the Chinese, but unfortunately he has not been able to do so!

Hiroshi Matsushita opened his eyes and looked at the night sky, and Second Lieutenant Hiroshi Matsushita, who had worked at the meteorological station for a while, predicted fog in the morning.

A fog!

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