Chapter 70: Tangshan's Loyal Soul
6.70 Yuyama Tadashi Soul
In order to cover up the truth of the farce of the negotiations on the 11th, Lu Xiang Sugiyama once again offered the trick of news blockade, and the newspapers in Japan chose not to report the follow-up of the incident, while at the same time, all the Japanese military propaganda agencies in the occupied areas of China were all working hard to carry out counter-propaganda, and the Japanese army accused the Nanjing garrison of falsifying those photos in their newspapers, and the reason of the Japanese newspapers was that Huang Haoran in the photo was not wearing the rank of lieutenant general, and he was dressed more casually. All this is inconsistent with the image of Huang Haoran in front of the public before, so the Japanese side believes that the person in the photo released by the Nanjing Garrison is Huang Haoran's "stand-in", and the real Huang Haoran did not appear at noon that day, and the propaganda organs of the Nanjing government will naturally not buy such a fallacy, and for a time the scolding war between the two sides in the newspaper even exceeded the excitement of the battle on the battlefield, and even the "courage" Chen Bui of the highest authority personally wrote an article to participate in the war. In his article, Chen Bui listed all the ugly things that the Japanese government and military had done in recent years, and the result was naturally a new round of criticism from the Japanese. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As a result, the scene began to become more and more lively, and almost all the pages of the newspapers published on the 12th were filled with these overwhelming articles scolding the war between China and Japan, and there were only a few lines of text used to introduce the war situation in Nanjing and North China, as if the Chinese and Japanese governments had forgotten the war that was still taking place, and the victory or defeat of this debate was a matter of face, and no one would back down half a step!
The Nanjing battlefield fought fiercely until the night of the 12th, and only some very small changes occurred in the respective fronts of the Nanjing Garrison Army and the Central China Front, but the slight changes did not mean that the battle was not fierce, and in the dozens of hours after the farce of the Jurong Road Sentry Line ended, the losses of the Chinese and Japanese sides combined were close to 10,000 people, of which more than 3,000 were killed and wounded by the Central China Front, and more than 6,000 were killed and wounded by the Nanjing Garrison. This was mainly due to the fact that Huang Haoran's troops suffered a relatively large loss in the face of the Japanese air force and the Japanese army's artillery and armor, and many times the Chinese troops who resisted the enemy on the front line could only use the simplest tactics of crowds to fight to the death with the devils, so the Nanjing garrison in a defensive position paid far more casualties than the Japanese army.
This kind of blind passive beating is the situation that Huang Haoran is most unwilling to see, but now that the Nanjing Garrison Army is in a relatively weak period, Huang Haoran really can't use powerful mobile forces to find fighters, and it is difficult to repeat the adventure of attacking the 35th Brigade and Regiment Headquarters of the 18th Division, Matsui Shigen is now focusing on the joint between the Japanese divisions, and the various divisions of the Nanjing Garrison Army fighting on the front line have also organized some small groups of troops to intersperse with sneak attacks. As a result, they were all culled by the Japanese army, and similar tactics seemed to be no longer viable.
The war between the Nanjing Garrison and the Central China Front is like two boxers with a huge disparity in strength fighting a boxing match, the thin Nanjing Garrison under the command of Huang Haoran's brain, although there are some amazing moves from time to time to hit a few heavy punches, but this boxing game to the end, the decision can only be the strength of the two sides, the gap between the Central China Front and the Nanjing Garrison is very huge, even after being attacked by the Nanjing Garrison, Matsui Shigen can still put on a posture of hurting people, As long as China and Japan are strangled together, the only one who will win in the end will be the stronger Central China Front!
The outcome of the Nanjing War of Resistance Huang Haoran knew very well in his heart that if he could turn things around with his strength alone, then China's War of Resistance would not take eight years! Today's retreat to Wuhan of the General Staff also informed Huang Haoran of a bad news, two Japanese divisions have begun to set off for East China, although Huang Haoran still does not know the number of these two Japanese divisions, but since these two Japanese army divisions can be sent by the Japanese military department to the scorching Nanjing battlefield at such an important juncture, then their strength will not be too bad, it seems that Matsui Shigen has got two good cards, and then look at the Nanjing garrison, Huang Haoran's troops have not joined with fresh blood for a long time, The telegrams sent by the highest authorities and Minister He were all encouragement, encouragement, and encouragement, and various awards and medals Huang Haoran received a batch. But the supplies and reinforcements he hoped for most were not at all!
If it hadn't been for the slaughter of the fat sheep of the "military commander" Jiangning Station at the beginning of the war to enrich the family's belongings, I am afraid that the supply of the Nanjing garrison will become a problem now! The Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty still knew that the imperial court did not make hungry soldiers, how did she get to the Republic of China, but the person in power became confused?
Thinking of this, Huang Haoran asked people to call Wang Huanzhi, the battle situation in Nanjing may turn into a protracted war of attrition, and Huang Haoran is now anxious to know how much money he still has.
Wang Huanzhi, the "big housekeeper", came very quickly, since he accompanied Huang Haoran to the negotiation site on the 11th, Wang Huanzhi lived in the city defense headquarters, the affairs of the riverside have been on track, and there is Zhang Jing, a safe guy, who is sitting there, Wang Huanzhi's energy began to shift to his own work, and his current work focus is to arrange the logistics of the 200,000 troops of the Nanjing Garrison.
"Commander, I'm here!" Huang Haoran heard Wang Huanzhi's voice and looked up at Wang Huanzhi, and then he beckoned to Wang Huanzhi and motioned for Wang Huanzhi to come to him.
"Huanzhi, there have been new changes in the battle situation in Nanjing, I think you should have noticed it, as soon as the capital is less, the courage is small, I came to you to want to know how much money we still have, you tell the truth, according to the intensity of today's battle, how long can we hold on?"
Wang Huanzhi thought for a moment and then gave his answer:
"The number of light weapons is relatively sufficient, but the inventory of artillery shells is not much, several artillery units and the batteries of Wulong Mountain are busy on both sides of the river and the ground these days, and from time to time they have to defend against air defense, according to today's consumption rate, at most seven days, our heavy artillery will become a furnishing, more scarce than artillery shells is fuel, Du Yuming, the top commander of the army armored corps, has come a few times, I racked my brains to fulfill half of the number he requested, and as a result, the army armored corps used the fuel allocated to them in the battle of Lishui. I just have a headache when I see those armored soldiers now......"
"Okay, don't say any more, you just said that we're going to be poor, won't we end the meal? In fact, I already have a number in my heart, but I can't get in and out, where is the reason not to be down, it's not easy for you to be a housekeeper! Huang Haoran waved his hand and signaled Wang Huanzhi not to say any more, although he had already been mentally prepared, but when he heard Wang Huanzhi say these words, Huang Haoran still felt a little panicked.
China is still lagging behind! Even the arms are still not self-sufficient, and it has only been less than half a year since the war with Japan began, and even the Central Army has begun to face a situation where there is no rice to cook, so it is no wonder that the highest authorities have not even received aid from the Soviet Union!
There's no way, I'm really hungry, and the highest authorities can only have milk now......
"Commander, in fact, we still have a lot of money in our hands, but we don't have a place to get anything at this time! Nanjing is not a place of long-term war, it is too unwise to wipe out the troops here, big brother, should we also think of a way out? β
Wang Huanzhi's voice was extremely low at the end of his words, and he knew very well that such words could not be heard by anyone with a heart, otherwise his eldest brother would be in trouble!
"It's not time yet......"
Huang Haoran's answer made Wang Huanzhi fall into a myth, didn't it happen? The Japanese are about to enclose Nanjing into an iron bucket! Do you have to wait for the devils to conquer Wuhu before retreating? Once Wuhu fell, the Nanjing garrison could only retreat from the Yangtze River to Pukou, 200,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of citizens crossed the river together, plus the Japanese still controlled the air supremacy, that scene, Wang Huanzhi did not dare to think!
"How long are we going to keep it? Does the commission give a bottom line? Wang Huanzhi hoped that Huang Haoran would give him a peace of mind pill, he knew that the eldest brother had a good relationship with the highest authority and his wife, and the highest authority should give instructions.
"Stay until it's time for us to go, Huanzhi, you don't care about these things, I have my own plans!" Huang Haoran didn't want to talk about the retreat now, the Nanjing garrison was now fighting with the Japanese army with all their strength, as soon as the news of the retreat spread, then the morale of the troops would immediately dissipate, but then it would be chaos! How chaotic the Great Retreat of Nanjing was in history Huang Haoran knows very well, and the Nanjing garrison cannot make the same mistake again!
Wang Huanzhi just walked away, Fan Jie walked over again, this unorthodox guy looked at Wang Huanzhi's back and said to Huang Haoran: "What's wrong?" Deputy Commander Wang's brows tightened, did the commander ask him to go where to rob the house? β
Huang Haoran smiled, if there was a place to start, he would have robbed it a long time ago, and the leading people in Nanjing City would have run away cleanly, where would there be a place for Huang Haoran to make a fortune?
"Stop joking, Chief of Staff Fan, is there any movement of the devil at night?"
"The 3rd Division and the 6th Division moved a few times, but they were all beaten back by the 74th Army and the 66th Army, the little devil's losses during the day are not small, tonight, it should be relatively calm......
Before Fan Jie's words were finished, a terrible air defense siren sounded in Nanjing City, and in the face of Huang Haoran's stupid expression, Fan Jie shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the top of his head with his finger and said:
"These winged locusts aren't in what I'm talking about!"
The Japanese Air Force's routine air raids at night began again, one after another fireballs bloomed in the city of Nanjing, and the sporadic design of anti-aircraft guns could not threaten the Japanese bombers in the sky at all, and later in order to save shells, the anti-aircraft guns simply stopped speaking, so the Japanese Air Force began to run around the night sky of Nanjing unscrupulously, and the Japanese planes that had dropped all their bombs chased cars and pedestrians on the streets, and these Japanese pilots had already lost their humanity!
In the Tangshan Mountains, the 468th Brigade of the 156th Division of the 83rd Army stationed here has been in a tug of war with the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in Tangshan Town for several days.
The 83rd Army is a Guangdong army, Huang Shitu and his subordinates are all Guangdong children, the temperature in Nanjing in December makes them feel very cold, but the hearts of Guangdong children to kill devils are hot, they give full play to the combat characteristics of the Guangdong army, nailed to Tangshan, even if the 3rd Division has cut off the retreat of the 468 Brigade back to Nanjing, it has not allowed this Guangdong army to fall into chaos, they have been insisting with the weapons in their hands!
The person who was most annoyed by the existence of the 468th Brigade was Lieutenant General Yoshikaryosuke, the commander of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, Tangshan was wedged into the theater of operations of the 9th Division like a nail, whenever the convoy of the 9th Division transporting supplies and reinforcements passed by the foot of Tangshan, the mortar shells on Tangshan would fall like hail, and the commander of the Jijialiang Auxiliary Division had to let his transport team go around Tangshan in a big circle to rush to the front line, if there was no 468 Brigade, the pace of the 9th Division would have been at least doubled!
The commander of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division could no longer stand the fact that Tangshan was still in the hands of the Nanjing garrison, and he ordered the commander of the 6th Brigade, Major General Akiyama Yoshiyoshi, to immediately launch a fierce attack on the 468th Brigade in Tangshan overnight, and the commander of the Ji Jialiang Auxiliary Division must pull out the thorn of the 468 Brigade!
Major General Yoshiyo Akiyama, commander of the 6th Brigade, handed over the task of attacking Tangshan to the commander of the 7th Infantry Wing, Izuo Kazuo, because it was the high ground of the Nanjing garrison, so the 7th Wing received the fire assistance of the 9th Wing of the Mountain Artillery of Serikawa Hideosa, and the 9th Wing of the Mountain Artillery was an artillery unit directly under the 9th Division, and now it is all invested in the Tangshan battlefield, which shows the determination of the commander of the Jijialiang Auxiliary Division to take Tangshan!
Iza a man Dazuo gave an order, the 7th Wing's attack on Tangshan kicked off, the first to appear was the 9th Wing of the Mountain Artillery of Serikawa Hideosa, after pouring half an hour of artillery fire on the 468 Brigade, the devils of the two squadrons appeared on the hillside in a scattered line, these devils are all cats on the waist, the speed of progress is very fast, in the process of impact, once a good support point is found, there will be devils who leave the brigade and carry heavy machine guns to run over to form a fire point, at a glance, you know that they are some veterans who have experienced a hundred battles.
There were two Guangdong troops fighting in Nanjing, one was Ye Zhao's 66th Army and the other was Deng Longguang's 83rd Army. These two corps had a total of four divisions, three of which had just been withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield, and more than half of the actual casualties were inflicted. The other division was transferred from Wuhan to Nanjing at the end of November, Ye Zhao's 66th Army was in a deep position in the defense line of the Nanjing garrison, so it got a better rest, Deng Longguang's 83rd Army was arranged by Huang Haoran in the outermost Jurong at the beginning, Jurong's fortifications were surrounded by the Japanese army before they could be repaired, so the 83rd Army had to rush to meet the battle.
From Jurong to Tangshan, the 83rd Army lost troops along the way, although Huang Haoran also dismantled several wounded battalions to supplement some of the 83rd Army's troops, Deng Longguang's number of troops still dropped to about one-third of the full strength, take the 468 Brigade as an example, Huang Shitu's brigade was full of more than 5,000 people, and only more than 1,000 people were left until now, and the wounded soldiers accounted for nearly half, so the first punch of the 7th Wing made Huang Shitu feel very difficult. The 468 Brigade used all its strength to suppress the devil back by virtue of its geographical advantage, and the 7th Wing once rushed to the front of the 468 Brigade position, and at a critical juncture, Huang Haoran transferred the mortars and light and heavy machine guns of the 83 Army to exert their power, and the 468 Brigade suddenly caught the Japanese by surprise with its ferocious firepower, but Huang Shitu knew that their ammunition was in a hurry, and this kind of firepower could not come many times!
Seeing the first wave of attacks frustrated, Iza Kazuo was not angry, he saw from the performance of the Chinese army on the mountain that the other side was already at the end of the crossbow, perhaps, the next round of attacks could solve the problem, but Iza Kazuo still asked the artillery for half an hour to prepare for artillery fire, in Iza Kazuo's opinion, it was worth exchanging shells for the lives of his subordinates.
Although Seryawa Hideosa was a little reluctant, he still met Iza Kazuo's request, and the 9th Mountain Artillery Wing bombarded for forty minutes in one go, which was ten minutes longer than the time required by the infantry, and Iza Hideo Osa understood that this was Serakawa Hideosa expressing the artillery's dissatisfaction in a special way, but the effect of this round of shelling was indeed surprisingly good.
Iza Oza saw through the smoke through the telescope that there were almost no objects above the ground on the Chinese position, and the heavy machine guns and mortars exposed by the Chinese army in the last round of attacks were ploughed by the artillery with shells, and Iza Ikzu even felt that no one would survive on the opposite position, and this time his 7th Wing sent a whole brigade at once, such a force was almost equal to the total number of the 468 Brigade, and Iza IchΕ did not want to have a third attack......
Huang Shitu, the commander of the 468 Brigade, was pulled out of a piece of scorched earth by his subordinates, and his first reaction was to count the number of people, but he found that after the second round of artillery bombardment by the Japanese army, his subordinates had been sharply reduced to less than 1,000 people.
The telegram for help has been sent, but the surrounding troops are in a hard battle, will anyone come to their rescue? Huang Shitu has no bottom in his heart, the Guangdong officers and soldiers of the 468 Brigade already have a plan to fight one to fight for two to make money, Huang Shitu saw that some soldiers quietly wrapped grenades around their waists, and the eyes of these people were full of determination!
"Pounce on your mother! Fight with the devil! β
Huang Shitu spit out the dirt in his mouth, and then took a rifle with a bayonet from the corpse next to him, since he can't withdraw it, then bury it in Tangshan!
The queue of devils was getting closer and closer, and Huang Shitu stood up abruptly and shouted, "Brothers! Let the devil see the bloody nature of our Cantonese people!! This is the grave of our 468 Brigade! Let's go first! β
After speaking, Huang Shitu rushed out of the trench with a bayonet, and rushed out behind him with his guards, his deputy brigade commander, and his Guangdong soldiers! When Huang Shitu rolled down the cliff with a devil officer in his arms, he saw that the cooking squad leader of the brigade headquarters, "Broken Tooth", was biting the throat of a ghost soldier, and the "Broken Tooth Guy" had two bayonets stuck in his back! The officers and men of the 468 Brigade let out a final roar with their lives!
There are no deserters! There were no prisoners, and the officers and soldiers of the 468 Brigade followed their brigade commander to fulfill their oath, and all the 3,000 Cantonese children were buried in the green mountains!
A sense of powerlessness suddenly surged in the heart of Iza and a man, China is no longer the branch in his mouth! Can Japan really win this war?
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