6.72 Changes in the Japanese Army

Shanghai Jing'an Temple, Japan's Central China Command. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Matsui Shigen received the latest battle report of the 13th Division and the 16th Division, the fortifications arranged by the Nanjing Garrison in the eastern area of the city seem to be much worse than Matsui Shigen imagined, the 13th Division and the 16th Division invested less than one wing, and it took only a few hours to repeatedly attack the trenches of the 10th Army, such a smooth attack is rare in the rest of the offensive directions, is Huang Haoran's weakness here?

You can't make such an easy judgment! Huang Haoran is an extremely smart guy! Maybe this time it's another trap he's devotive!

As long as Matsui Shigen now thinks that the opponent he is facing is Huang Haoran, he will immediately feel that there are murderous intentions buried everywhere behind the originally simple matter! Now all the Japanese generals up and down the Central China Front are infected with "pornography", even Matsui Ishine is no exception!

Observe Nanjing from the map, this ancient city except for the side of the river, only the east of the city is more mountainous, Zhongshan and Shogunate Mountain and Nanjing Dongcheng District are closely connected together, plus Wulong Mountain Fort, Hongshan Laoshan these small highlands and a large number of permanent fortifications built by the Nanjing government earlier, the east of Nanjing City has formed a relatively complete defense system, and now Nanjing's three-sided city defense is the most stable here, so Matsui Shigen speculated that Huang Haoran would lay heavy troops in the east of the city before the war, Only in this area can the Nanjing garrison be in an absolutely advantageous situation.

Therefore, in the battle plan drawn up by Matsui Ishine before the war, the Japanese Central China Front had no intention of taking this area at all, and the task given to the 16th and 13th divisions by Matsui Ishine was only to hit the Yanziji area to block the way for the Nanjing garrison to flee eastward, and the breakthrough point of the Central China Front in the east of Nanjing was Zhongshan Gate, as long as this gate could be broken, the Japanese army could directly pour into the city of Nanjing without passing through the dangerous east of the city. In this way, Huang Haoran's several divisions in the batteries on the side of Zhongshan and the Yangtze River will be completely useless, and after the capture of Nanjing, the Central China Front may be able to disarm all these Chinese divisions without spending a single shot or bullet, and the Chinese army that has lost its will to fight is like a flock of sheep, and the entire regiment and battalion of the Chinese army have collapsed in an instant in front of the Japanese army, which is far weaker than them, and Matsui Shigen wants to play a little bigger in Nanjing, if he is allowed to capture these Chinese divisions in the whole system, such a "feat" It should also be called a "miracle" in the history of the Japanese army.

However, these are Matsui Shigen's original assumptions, and the current actual situation has changed in a thousand ways before the start of the Nanjing operation, and several divisions of the Middle Route Army and the Left Route Army under Matsui Shigen fought hard for many days, not only failed to enter Nanjing City, but repeatedly lost troops and lost generals, and Japan has already given Matsui Ishine considerable pressure, although the land minister Sugiyama Mototo and the deputy chief of staff Tada Jun are still on Matsui Shigen's side, but they will not give much time to the Central China Front!

This "new discovery" of the Right Route Army made Matsui Shigen can't help but have a new idea, that is, to immediately switch the direction of the main attack and assist of the Central China Front!

From now on, the main attacking force of the Central China Front should be adjusted to the 13th and 16th divisions of the Right Route Army, and the direction of the attack will also be changed to the eastern part of Nanjing! The only weakness that the Nanjing garrison has exposed so far!

It takes a lot of courage to make such a large-scale strategic adjustment, especially now that Matsui Ishine is still in an extraordinary period, and the voice of Tokyo accusing him of ineffective combat has begun to get louder and louder, if there is a mistake this time, then Matsui Ishine will be equivalent to personally giving the opposition a bullet that can kill him at will! It's a game where you can only succeed and not fail!

Matsui Ishone's inner struggle was very fierce, and the two thoughts of modifying the offensive plan and sticking to the predetermined style of play took turns occupying the top in his mind, and he couldn't tell the difference for a while.

The weakness shown by the Chinese defenders in the east of Nanjing in front of the right army of the Central China Front Army was like a huge wound that smelled of blood, and the evil wolf Matsui Shigen gradually began to get excited, whether to make a change or not, to see if this temptation was big enough!

After a heated discussion with the Chief of Staff, Major General Tsukada Takeshi, Matsui Ishine made up his mind!

The Yamada Detachment of the 16th and 13th Divisions will soon be reinforced by two infantry wings from the 101st Division and the 5th Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery directly under the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and the attack force of the Right Route Army will take a qualitative leap!!

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When the commander of the 48th Division, Xu Jiwu, arrived with his troops, a loud explosion came from the position of the 287th Regiment, and it was the last few officers and soldiers of the 287th Regiment who pulled the explosives bag and chose to die with the devils around them!

Xu Jiwu, the commander of the 48th Division, knew that he couldn't delay for a moment now, and he had to launch an attack immediately to regain his position, and no matter what, he couldn't let the devil gain a firm foothold!

"Brethren! Follow me! Avenge Regiment Commander Zhao and the brothers of the 287th Regiment! ”

More than 2,000 officers and men of the 48th Division swept towards the position of the 287th Regiment like a gust of wind, and the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment, which had just finished the bloody battle, immediately ushered in a new batch of opponents!

However, this time the offensive and defensive positions of the Japanese army and the Chinese army changed, the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment stood on the position of the 287th Regiment, and the devil soldiers began to jump into the trenches one after another, and then began to shoot at the 48th Division, the trenches were full of corpses of the officers and soldiers of the 287th Regiment and the Japanese army, and the blood had merged into a dark red stream, and the devil soldiers in the trenches were wet under their feet, but they couldn't care about these now!

The attack of the 48th Division was launched very suddenly, and the Japanese army had just fully occupied this part of the position of the 287th Regiment, and they did not even have time to clear the remnants of the Chinese soldiers before they started a defensive battle.

Of course, Xu Jiwu, the commander of the 48th Division, will not miss such a good opportunity, he ordered the mortar company of the division to carry out blocking shooting behind the Japanese position, as long as the devil's reinforcements are not allowed to continue to rush up, it is not difficult to deal with these devils with only light firepower on the 287th regiment position, Xu Jiwu intends to recapture the position in one go!

The devils on the position of the 287th Regiment obviously knew the situation they were facing, and the Japanese heavy artillery in the distance began to speak, and one after another large-caliber shells exploded in the attack queue of the 48th Division, often with a loud bang, more than a dozen lives could be harvested, but the officers and soldiers of the 48th Division still rushed to the top regardless of it!

The tragedy of the last few fighters of the 287th Regiment made the blood of the officers and men of the 48th Division boil, and they couldn't let their brothers laugh at them in the sky!

Kill all these little devils! Come on!

The shouts of the officers and men of the 48th Division were murderous, and the commander of the Kuaba Tatsuji Brigade couldn't help but feel a little frightened when he heard these voices penetrating from the smoke of gunpowder, his forward troops were in danger!

"Shoot! Let the artillerymen run out of shells! Order the 9th Wing to launch a decisive assault! Be sure to rush ahead of the Chinese! ”

The commander of the 9th Wing, Katagiri Goro Osa, immediately faithfully carried out the order of the commander of the Kusaba Tatsuji Brigade, and he drove an infantry brigade to the artillery blockade line of the Chinese army at one time, as long as half of the Japanese troops could rush to the position, the Chinese had to retreat immediately, and this time the 9th Wing began to compare speed with the 48th Division!

"Divisional commander! No more! The devil's reinforcements rushed through the artillery blockade, we can't carry it anymore, we will lose all our money if we continue like this! ”

A major officer ran to the commander of the 48th Division, Xu Jiwu, shouted loudly, the smoke on the battlefield was too thick, and there were constantly Japanese shells exploding around, Xu Jiwu couldn't see the face of the person who came, but he didn't want to see it clearly, only to see Xu Jiwu kick the major opposite him to the ground, and then pointed at him and scolded: "Afraid of death!" If you don't plant it, take off this military uniform for Lao Tzu and get out!! Otherwise, you'll rush me! Rush up and pull a devil back! ”

The major got up from the ground with tears on his face, and then said to Xu Jiwu: "Master! See you in the next life! After saying that, he rushed to the Japanese position without looking back, after killing a devil machine gunner with a pistol in his hand, the major officer fell down with several bullets in the chest, Xu Jiwu rushed to the position where the major officer fell, he closed his eyes with his hand for the dead brother, and then picked up a rifle on the ground and roared forward, the reinforcements of the 48th Division finally rushed to the position of the 287th Regiment after paying the price of more than half of the casualties, at this time the reinforcements of the 9th Wing of the Japanese Army also arrived, The brigades on both sides immediately fought in one place, not that there were Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers who fell headlong in the trenches and could not get up again, as time passed, more and more people died, and in some places the trenches were completely filled with corpses, the commander of the Kusaba Tatsuji Brigade expressed shock at the tenacity of the Chinese army in front of him, his 19th Brigade had already paid the price of more than 700 people on this position, and the losses of the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment together after this battle may exceed 1500 people, That's a staggering loss!

Why hasn't the main force of the division come up yet? For the first time, the commander of the Kusaba Tatsumi Brigade wavered in confidence......

Xu Jiwu was also hit with a bayonet in his waist after using a pistol and a broadsword to solve the two devil soldiers, as he lost more and more blood, he began to feel that the broadsword in his hand began to sink, and the number of officers and soldiers of the 48th Division on the position was getting smaller and smaller, and the devils were still adding reinforcements, and the Yaohua Gate could not be held today!

Xu Jiwu didn't want to retreat from this position anymore, he felt that he didn't have the face to meet his corps commander Xu Yuanquan, the 10th Army had been preparing in the east of the city for so long, and now it was only one night that the devil broke the Yaohua Gate, and the 48th Division is now the sinner of the Nanjing Garrison! Xu Jiwu wants to use his blood to atone for the sins of the 48th Division!

Unconsciously, the dawn of December 13th was coming, Xu Jiwu saw that the sky in the distance began to turn white, after his last guard fell, a round of red sun finally jumped out of the horizon, Xu Jiwu's pupils were stimulated, and began to contract strongly, this is when he suddenly heard a fierce gunfire behind the Japanese army, and then the familiar charge horn sounded behind him, I don't know where the regiment commander Xu Yuanquan drew a reinforcement from, and looked at the posture and launched a roundabout attack on the Japanese army.

There was a brief panic among the Japanese troops on the position, and then the officers in the Japanese army began to shout, and after a while, the Japanese troops on the position began to retreat, and Xu Jiwu's 48th Division recaptured the position of the 287th Regiment in such a magical way.

The exhausted Xu Jiwu sat on top of a few corpses, looking around, there were only a few officers and soldiers of the 48th Division who could stand on the position of the 287th Regiment, half of Xu Jiwu's division was filled in Yaohuamen, looking at the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the 48th Division everywhere, Xu Jiwu finally couldn't control his emotions and cried out, he cried so heartbreakingly, Xu Jiwu was really sad to the extreme!

The troops who caught up to reinforce the 48th Division were Ding Zhipan's 41st Division, Huang Haoran decisively ordered the 99th Division to go out of the city to participate in the battle after analyzing the battle situation in the east of the city, with Shen Laoer's troops to help, Xu Yuanquan, the commander of the Second Army, dared to transfer Ding Zhipan's 41st Division out to rescue Xu Jiwu, and there was actually only one battalion attacking behind the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment, if it weren't for Huang Haoran leaving a big shadow in the minds of the Japanese army, Xu Yuanquan's strategy would not have been so successful, After hurriedly recalling the attacking troops, it was discovered that the commander of the Kusaba Tatsuji Brigade of the Zhongji Brigade was furious, but once the fighter plane was lost, it could never be recovered, and the strengthened Yaohuamen position once again became a roadblock in front of the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment!

After fighting in the middle of the night, everything in the east of Nanjing returned to the original point so unexpectedly, in this tragic few hours, the casualties of the 10th Army of the Second Army exceeded 4,000 people, the combat effectiveness of the 48th Division was directly lost by fifty, and the 19th Brigade and the Yamada Detachment also paid the price of more than 1,300 casualties.

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Xu Yuanquan, the commander of the Second Legion, had not dealt with Shen Yuanlong and Master Shen before today, he had only met Shen Lao Er a few times at the meeting of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters, Xu Yuanquan had always taken a respectful and distant attitude towards Shen Yuanlong, Commander Huang's sworn brother, in Xu Yuanquan's words, he didn't want to make trouble for himself, and it was better for him, the commander of the miscellaneous army, to be farther away from the Central Army.

Huang Haoran swallowed several small troops when he started, and the 99th Army collected the remnants of other troops on the Songhu battlefield, these things Xu Yuanquan is very sensitive, in the Republic of China, the army is a general's belongings, and the commander of the army who has lost his military power is a local police chief, and he will not care about you, Xu Yuanquan, who has seen a lot of such things in his life, regards his little family background as if it were his life, Huang Haoran and Shen Laoer, who have had a bad record of "human trafficking", Xu Yuanquan is naturally extra careful.

Xu Yuanquan didn't pay much attention to the various legends about the 99th Division circulating in the Nanjing government army, and Xu Yuanquan, the soldiers of the 99th Division, had also seen it with his own eyes, he had never seen a special existence like the 99th Division, the Japanese devils were fierce enough, right? The soldiers of the 99th Division are even more fierce! For such a tiger and wolf army to stay in Nanjing City to guard the wharf and riverbank, Xu Yuanquan actually had an idea in his heart.

Isn't this a typical preservation strength? Don't look at Huang Haoran's usual fair and honest posture, when it comes to his own interests, isn't it inevitable that he can't avoid vulgarity? Of the four divisions under the jurisdiction of the 99th Army, only Huang Haoran's starting unit, the 99th Division, has not participated in any major battles.

When Xu Yuanquan asked Huang Haoran for help, he only thought that Huang Haoran would send several military police regiments in the city or the 71st Army stationed in Zhongshan to reinforce the Second Army, but to Xu Yuanquan's surprise, Huang Haoran actually sent Shen Laoer!

The first question that Xu Yuanquan thought of was who commanded him and Shen Laoer, although Xu Yuanquan was the commander of the corps and was a lot higher in rank than Shen Laoer, the deputy division commander, but Xu Yuanquan would not simply think that Huang Haoran would hand over his basic troops to him as an outsider to command.

Soon after Shen Laoer's troops left for the east of the city, Huang Haoran sent a telegram to Xu Yuanquan, he would personally command the operation in the east of the city, this time Xu Yuanquan is equivalent to Shen Laoer has become an equal, both of them listen to Huang Haoran, no one can control the other, the 99th Division really has a special significance for Huang Haoran.

Xu Yuanquan thought that he had seen through Huang Haoran, but in fact, he really regarded Huang Haoran as too low, the reason why Huang Haoran did not hand over the 99th Division to Xu Yuanquan was actually very simple, that is, Xu Yuanquan was not qualified to control the lion of the 99th Division, if the commander of the Second Army Corps was Jiang Baili, Li Zongren or Xue Yue and Gu Zhu, Huang Haoran would definitely hand over the command of the 99th Division without hesitation, but the commander of the Second Army was just Xu Yuanquan, Huang Haoran felt that it was more appropriate to pinch the 99th Division in his own hands.

Moreover, Huang Haoran and Fan Jie saw from the sudden increase in the intensity of the Japanese army's attack in the east of the city that the strategic center of gravity of the Japanese army seemed to have signs of adjustment, if Matsui Shigen really regarded the east of the city as the first breakthrough point of the Central China Front, then it would be even more inappropriate to let Xu Yuanquan sit here to command, since Matsui Shigen, the commander of the Japanese Central China Front, personally went out, how could Huang Haoran, the deputy commander of the Nanjing garrison, have a reason to avoid the war?

The small eastern part of the city has now become a chessboard for Matsui Shigen and Huang Haoran to make moves, after Yaohuamen, where will Matsui Shigen's next knife fall? It was obviously powerless for the Second Army to face the Japanese 16th Division and the 13th Division alone, and Huang Haoran was unwilling to give up the natural advantages of the east of the city.

At 9 o'clock in the morning on December 13, Matsui Ishone's second knife fell, and this time the blade of the 16th Division pointed at Xianhemen! At the same time, the gunfire of Yaohuamen also rang out again, and Matsui Shigen changed his strategy this time and adopted a multi-point flowering approach......

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