Chapter 244: The Battle of Nanjing's Defense Takes a Turn (4)
How should the Nanjing war situation be discussed and carried out without air supremacy? Zhang Xuewu was also in his heart. Although he had expected this result, he did not expect that attacking the Japanese aircraft carrier would become the biggest failure during the Nanjing Battle under his command.
Zhang Xuewu knew that it was entirely because of his serious shortcomings in his historical changes and the impact of butterflies. In fact, since the Japanese man suffered losses at Chengde City in 1933, many subtle changes have quietly taken place. For example, the defeat at Chengde City caused changes in the resource allocation of the Japanese imperial army. Due to the defeat at Chengde City, Japan realized that its extremely proud joint fleet had no opponents in Asia?
The Pacific Fleet of the United States is not an opponent of the Japanese Empire's Joint Fleet. The British Fleet of the Far East and the French Fleet of Indochina are even more vulnerable. Although the Soviets had strong land strength, their navy was not an opponent in front of the powerful joint fleet. Dominating the Pacific was not a problem for the Japanese Empire's Joint Fleet. In this case, Emperor Hirohito consulted several times with the three chiefs of the Army Province, the Navy Province, and the General Staff Headquarters at the Imperial Front Meeting, and decided to redistribute and adjust the empire's strategic resources, and formulated a three-year development plan for the empire.
This mysterious three-year development plan of the empire is actually equivalent to the so-called development plan that transcends reality and people's livelihood in the future, such as China's Great Leap Forward. The implementation of this plan is actually a disguised destruction and illegal plunder of national assets for Japan's national economy.
But even his life belongs to His Majesty the Emperor's Japanese, what is the property?
The fanaticism of a nation is boiling and burning! However, this nation has obviously lost its mind. For a nation that has lost its mind, only the destruction after the burning and boiling is waiting for it.
〖Japan〗I stopped building the Yamato and Musashi battleships in Yamato, built three more heavy aircraft carriers that were only started in early 1944 in history, and absorbed the tactics of the Chinese army's concentrated use of tanks in the Battle of Rehe, used the tanks as a whole with the wing and brigade levels, and increased the training period for the reserve troops, and greatly increased the number of heavy artillery brigades, equiping the Army Aviation and Naval Aviation with more advanced attack aircraft, bombers, etc.
Although Rehe's defence has allowed China to achieve a better situation than in history, and its cooperation with the Germans and the training of German equipment teachers is much faster than in history, Japan's development progress is much faster than in history. It depends on the gap in the comprehensive national strength between the two countries. On the contrary, the gap between the two countries is even larger than in history?
This was something that Zhang Xuewu had never expected before. Can Japan adjust his strategic development tendency? However, since Japan can rise in just a few decades after the Meiji Restoration and build a huge fleet that has no rivals across the entire Pacific Ocean, Japan has added big words to the name of the country and become an empire recognized by the European powers!
〖Japan myself is not a pig's head, but is just aggression and expansion of culture by its inherent inferiority. The singleness of its nation also determines that 〖Japan myself can maintain an unprecedentedly consistent national will and national form of the entire nation when necessary. This is a point that China is difficult for as a multi-ethnic country. Moreover, China has a vast territory, with different winds and rains of thirty miles, and people's anger and customs all the same. Moreover, the rural complex of the Chinese people has always been far greater than their patriotic sentiments. The continuous weakness and warlord melee have long made the insensitive Chinese people forget what the concept of family, country and country is.
The Chinese are a mess of sand, a piece of iron plate, and a piece of iron nationalism that collided with Japan and China. The Chinese people suffered losses in the early stage, but China is a country with profound civilization and cultural heritage. Although such a country has been invaded in history, it has never been conquered. Moreover, the Chinese nation has a very special and terrifying assimilation for the invaders. Countless alien invaders in history have disappeared into the long river of history.
Moreover, Japan himself ignored the real national strength of Japan and China's grand strategic depth, so the Japanese army was also planning to fall into the battlefield of China... Zhang Xuewu was also very upset about his mistakes. To put it bluntly, he underestimated the enemy and greed for merit. Moreover, China lacked accurate information on Japan, such as the specific number of new divisions formed by Japan, the number of heavy artillery gates it produced, the number of tanks it produced, the number of fighter jets, etc. These important strategic basic information were dark for Zhang Xuewu, and the unilateral intelligence transparency on the battlefield was absolutely favorable for Japan.
The 6th Japanese Division joined the defense line of the Qinhuai River, and its 101st Division also joined the battle sequence of attacking Qixia Mountain. The three independent mixed brigades of its subordinates also joined the battle sequence of attacking the General Mountain and the Zijin Mountain Fortress. The overall city defense of Nanjing City launched a fierce attack like a storm. The reason was because of Emperor Hirohito's furious moment at the imperial meeting.
The main reason for Emperor Hirohito's anger came from the disdain of the frontier generals at the command of Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya. Emperor Hirohito, who was far away from the frontier, stood in front of the elites of the Japanese army in the General Staff Headquarters, and listened to their so-called strategic decision-making analysis based on the comprehensive strength of the enemy and our armies and China and Japan. Therefore, Emperor Hirohito believed that this was someone deliberately embarrassing the royal family. The greatest significance of Asakamiya Hirohiko's appointment as the acting commander of the Nakamiya dispatched army to capture Nanjing was to reflect the great contributions made by the royal members in this holy war, and to reflect the majesty of the imperial power of the imperial family of the Great Japanese Empire.
Nanjing has not been defeated for a long time, and the Army Aviation, Navy Aviation, and all the Army divisions have suffered heavy losses. In Emperor Hirohito's view, it was not that the Chinese army was too powerful, but that the generals and soldiers of the Imperial Army were not fighting to the death. Therefore, Emperor Hirohito issued an imperial order for the first time to instruct.
The imperial order in the Japanese army is equivalent to an uncrowned king holding the Sword of the Sword. The significance is to urge officials and assistants at all levels who are not good at fighting. If the goal is not achieved within a limited time limit, the trainee should clear his dereliction of duty and crime by cesarean section.
Many Japanese generals could despise Prince Hirohiko Asakamiya, but they did not dare to neglect or desecrate Emperor Hirohito at all. Therefore, for a moment, the Japanese divisions attacking Nanjing were completely in a state of madness. They launched a fierce attack on the defense lines of General Mountain, Qixia Mountain, Zijin Mountain, and Qinhuai River. Especially in the battle to attack General Mountain Fortress, the Japanese 16th Division and the 11th Division organized a dozen suicide squads of brigade-level troops, climbed the cliffs on the southern side of General Mountain Fortress from the flanks, and attacked the southern and northern sides of General Mountain Fortress on the front positions.
In order to prevent the Chinese defenders of the Niushoushan tunnel from supporting firepower, the Japanese army directly used a large number of smoke-collecting bombs to block the sight of the Chinese army in the Niushoushan tunnel, and organized a 150-mm Cannon of the Type 38 style 150 mm cannon to directly shoot the Chinese army tunnel on the cliff wall to destroy the tunnel entrance.
The Chinese defending artillery group at the top of Niushou Mountain ignored the Japanese heavy artillery suppression and air strikes, and counterattacked the Japanese cannon positions with the most fierce firepower, because the General Mountain Fortress and the Niushou Mountain Kiln belt were interdependent and coexistent. If the effective cover of the Niushou Mountain Fortress tunnel was lost, the General Mountain Fortress would inevitably be in a situation where it was attacked on both sides.
The power of the Japanese 150 mm cannons equipped with the Japanese 38 cannons was huge. In history, the two cannons and three cannons collapsed the Nanjing city wall that could use cars. Therefore, once the tunnel entrance was hit by the Japanese 150 mm cannons, the possibility of recovery was completely lost.
Therefore, Ye Yunfei made a very tragic decision, that is, to threaten the artillery group of General Lu Mountain Fortress, and to destroy all the Japanese cannons that were constantly bombarding the tunnels of Niushou Mountain Fortress.
The troops in the tunnels that were originally organized to be concealed and arranged several main tunnels to prepare for Fords' 20mm four-pin anti-aircraft guns to be prepared for counterattacks on the Japanese cannon positions, Sun Guiming was also shocked by the rumbling sound of cannons in the direction of the General Mountain Fortress?
Although the Japanese cannon positions were trapped in a sea of fire, Sun Guiming knew very well that Ye Yunfei was engaged in a bloody battle. When the 105mm howitzer group covered the Japanese cannon group, the Japanese army's 38150mm heavy howitzer group would also lock in the position of the General Mountain Fortress artillery group.
Although Ye Yunfei was determined to fight hard, after shelling the Japanese cannon, Ye Yunfei immediately ordered all artillery soldiers to abandon the cannon and withdraw into the anti-aircraft shelter. In Ye Yunfei's view, the artillery loss can be rebuilt if Rehe loses, but the loss of these experienced artillery officers and soldiers will be an irreparable major loss.
Soon, the artillery shells roaring from the Japanese heavy howitzer came as scheduled. Lou Gaoteng raised dozens of meters of smoke column to show the caliber of the Japanese artillery. The Chinese artillery looked at the beloved artillery that accompanied him to kill the Japanese soldiers and turned into piles of scrap iron in the violent explosion. Almost all the officers and soldiers shed tears of unbearable tears. They were artillery soldiers. If they were no artillery, what were they still artillery soldiers?
The Japanese artillery bombardment almost turned the vegetation on the General Mountain. The subsequent Japanese fighter jets carried a batch of incendiary bombs. In the scorching explosion, the Japanese fighter jets continued to dive and strafuse.
Sun Guiming looked at the violent explosion on General Mountain and sighed helplessly: "It's over! It's over! The 105-mm cannon group in General Mountain may be completely scrapped!"
Chapter completed!