The National Defense Force was almost paralyzed by a landmine feast, and the few thousand people who survived were taken advantage of by the National Army's 11th Reorganized Division. The unlucky fate of the Japanese 32nd Division cannot be said to be unprecedented, but at least it is unprecedented!
If we say that the 32nd Division was ambushed by a minefield, and then was inflicted by the 11th National Army Division, it was unlucky enough, but there was another even more unlucky thing, that is, during the mine explosion, the Japanese army
The radio stations were either completely buried underground or blown up, and there was no time to report the situation to the Japanese 11th Army and the East China Front Army Headquarters.
If they had a radio station, the 115th Division was only 15 kilometers away from the nearest regiment at Zhoujing Lane. Although the railway had been damaged, it would only take more than two hours at most to reach Zhoujing Lane by running along the railway for support.
However, the Japanese army was not lucky enough to seize the last life-saving straw.
The 11th Division of the National Army started to engage the Japanese troops at 1:30 a.m. on the 24th, and ended at 4:30 a.m. It only took a total of 3 hours. In addition to more than 1,000 Japanese troops fleeing along the railway line towards Suzhou.
In addition, the rest of the Japanese troops were killed by Huang Wei's men.
"Quick, quick, clean the battlefield and retreat!" Huang Wei shouted excitedly as he looked at the corpses of thousands of Japanese soldiers shot dead by his own men.
At 6 o'clock in the morning on December 24, 1937, Wang Shihe, director of the Chairman's Attendant's Office, excitedly ran to the place where Chiang Kai-shek was staying and knocked on the door "dong dong dong".
"Who is it?" Chairman Chiang asked, still a little sleepy.
"Chairman, what a great victory! Huang Weibu annihilated the Japanese 32nd Forward Division in the suburbs of Wuxi!" Although there was no one in front of him or behind him, Wang Shihe still said while waving the telegram in his hand.
"Quickly, inform Lin Sen and the others that I will hold a press conference at 8 o'clock!" Chiang Kai-shek said happily after reading the telegram.
In Chiang Kai-shek's view, Huang Wei's telegram should not be false, because Huang Wei said in the telegram that in this battle, the 11th Division killed including the commander of the 32nd Division, Lieutenant General Tomamichi Fourth Floor, and the commander of the 63rd Brigade, Major General Yamada Tsuneutaro.
, there were more than 23,000 Japanese officers and soldiers below lieutenant general, including the commander of the 64th Brigade, Major General Kuroshima Teiji. Most importantly, Huang Wei also captured the division flag of the Japanese 32nd Division.
The results of the battle are of course true, and the corpses of the enemy generals and the Japanese military flags will not appear out of thin air. However, there is a big lie in it, that is, the Japanese 32nd Division was not annihilated by Huang Wei's reorganized 11th Division. If
If you insist on saying that they have merit, in fact it is only equivalent to annihilating an enemy regiment at most.
The reason why Huang Wei dared to commit such fraud was because when cleaning the battlefield, the National Defense Forces sent a liaison officer, who sent a telegram signed by Wu Aihua. The telegram only had one sentence: "Congratulations to Huang Wei
The general annihilated the Japanese 32nd Division."
The telegram was signed: "Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces Wu Aihua."
If Huang Wei didn't know the meaning of this telegram, he might as well have bought a piece of tofu and risked his life. Of course, Huang Wei was initially surprised as to why Wu Aihua would send him such a telegram. However, the liaison officer helped Huang with one sentence
Wei Qie was confused, "Our commander-in-chief said that the national army needs a victory to boost their spirits! Besides, we don't want the Japanese army to know that we have arrived at the Shanghai-Nanjing front line."
"Thank you, the National Defense Forces, and thank you, Commander Wu." Huang Wei said sincerely.
Indeed, before receiving this telegram, Huang Wei was quite distressed. That was that the Japanese 32nd Division had been destroyed. The bodies of three Japanese generals and several Japanese flags were all irrefutable evidence of the destruction of the Japanese army. However, how could
Reporting the ambush to the Ministry of National Defense made it difficult for Huang Wei to make a decision. He said that one of his divisions wiped out a Japanese division? Although there was "physical" evidence, those in the Ministry of National Defense were not just freeloaders. As long as they allowed themselves
If you write a combat briefing, you will be exposed. Besides, there are so many people in the division, how can you keep everyone's mouth shut?
With Wu Aihua's telegram, this matter will be easier to handle. When publicizing to the outside world, of course, the credit goes to the National Army's reorganization of the 11th Division; but in the report to the Ministry of National Defense or the personal telegram to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, some more
Explanation, such as "the small unit of the National Defense Forces provided necessary cooperation" etc.
Wu Aihua took the initiative to give up the credit for the Zhoujing Lane ambush, which was like a shot in the arm for the shaky Nationalist government and the national army, which had already lost its reputation.
As soon as Chairman Chiang Kai-shek's press conference started, everyone around the world knew that the Chinese army had ambushed and annihilated more than 23,000 people in the 32nd Division of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army last night, and also killed the Japanese division.
There are three generals on the fourth floor of Changmidi.
Since the reorganized divisions were equipped and trained by the Germans, Huang Wei's victory made the Germans particularly happy. The Germans proudly announced in their newspapers: The record in Eastern China shows that the German army has the best military in the world.
Excellent training level and the best combat tactics.
However, this is by no means Wu Aihua's pretense of generosity, but that he has a deeper idea inside. This achievement of annihilating the enemy is just a matter of throwing stones to ask for directions.
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Zhu Xian's Fourth Brigade quickly disappeared from the Wuxi area after completing such a major operation in Zhoujing Lane, and Operation "Storm and Thunder" was just the beginning.
Jiangyin is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is known as the throat of the Yangtze River and a river defense fortress. The Jiangyin-Wuxi line, which controls the Yangtze River in the north and Taihu Lake in the south, has been a must-have place for military strategists since ancient times.
In the original history, if the Japanese army wanted to capture Nanjing, they must first conquer the Jiangyin Fortress. This led to the famous "Jiangyin Defense War". The Japanese army deployed a total of more than 28,000 troops by sea, land and air for 18 consecutive days. The Chinese navy and army totaled more than 30,000 people.
They used means including self-sinking warships to resist, but in the end the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin Fort.
The mission of the "Storm Thunder" plan for the Swordfish Force was to monitor the Japanese fleet in the Yangtze River Basin below Jiangyin, and to promptly notify the National Defense Forces Air Force to bomb the Japanese fleet.
However, when Liu Renhai, the deputy captain of the Swordfish Unit, arrived in the Yangtze River Basin with more than 300 soldiers, he had other thoughts.
In December, the Yangtze River is in the dry season. The river surface is already very narrow. In addition, there are large and small sand islands blocking the river from time to time. The river surface at the narrowest point is only about two kilometers.
"If, I mean if, mines were laid on the river, how would the Japanese warships pass through?" Dong Yuqing, the captain of the first Swordfish detachment, said thoughtfully to Liu Renhai while looking at the channel between Shazhou and the river bank.
"Mine? The idea is good, but the Japanese army may not have minesweepers." Liu Renhai thought for a while and said.
Mines are generally used as weapons to deter enemies. It seems not easy to achieve the goal of destroying enemies or sinking warships.
"I think we can do this..." Dong Yuqing expressed his thoughts.
"Okay, it's really good. However, whether your idea is valid or not, you have to ask Captain Kong or Commander Wu for instructions." After hearing Dong Yuqing's idea, Liu Renhai immediately agreed.
Immediately Liu Renhai reported Dong Yuqing's idea to Kong Wu. At this time, Kong Wu and Wu Aihua had arrived in Shanghai. After learning about Swordfish's idea, Wu Aihua immediately spent his brains to improve the idea, and at the same time instructed the Air Force department to use
Airdropping supplies to the Swordfish troops at night.
What was Dong Yuqing's idea? It turned out that he saw that the waterway was narrow and thought that using mines to block the enemy was very promising. However, considering that warships were generally more defensive against mines, he thought of a trick. If the mines were fixed on the bottom of the river, they would only wait for the Japanese warships.
The mines were floated to the surface of the river only when they arrived. In this way, the Japanese warships would definitely be unprepared and hit. Of course, the mines had to be fixed underwater and allowed to float up when the time came. Dong Yuqing's idea was to string the mines together with a cable.
Get up and bury it deep in the mud at the bottom of the river. When the Japanese warship comes, the swordfish soldiers on Shazhou pull the cable hard, and the mine will break free from the pressure of the mud and float to the surface.
When Wu Aihua heard this idea, he thought it was very good. However, this idea also had shortcomings, that is, it could only ambush one Japanese warship, because when a warship hit a mine, other warships would definitely stop to avoid or even escape downstream.
Wu Aihua's improved plan is: first, instead of using 2 kilometers or 3 kilometers of cables, a cable of up to 1 kilometer is enough. But not one, but many. Second, the mines do not need to be directly tied to the cables.
Instead, use small nylon ropes to string them together like bunches of grapes. 5-10 mines are in a bunch, and the distance between each mine is 2-5 meters. In this way, when these mines float to the surface of the river, a bunch of mines can
The river surface is 10-50 meters long (across). Third, put these mine strings into the bottom of the river, suppress them with rocks or something, and tie the rocks with cables. When the Japanese warships arrive, suddenly force
Pull the cable to pull the rocks apart, and the mine string will automatically float to the surface.
As long as there are enough mine strings, the spacing between the mine strings is appropriate, and the operation is proper, it is not difficult to destroy a Japanese fleet.
When Liu Renhai and others received the telegram from Commander Wu, hundreds of Marines were almost overjoyed. This was the plan that Commander Wu came up with. If they were arranged according to this plan, no matter how many warships the Japanese had
It’s not enough for us to explode.
The National Defense Forces possesses the military technology of the 1945s, and the territory of the National Defense Forces spans the two coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong, so the production of mines is naturally indispensable. Of course, the National Defense Forces still had relatively few types of mines at this time, with only contact mines and
There are two types of magnetic mines. The former must be in physical contact with the warship, and the latter must reach the corresponding magnetic level before it explodes.
On the Yangtze River waterway, just use contact mines.
According to the relevant provisions of international law, the deployment of mines on the sea or rivers must be "announced" to the outside world because of the fear that civilian ships will encounter mines, but it is difficult for countries around the world to do so during the implementation process. A few years later, during World War II, the United Kingdom deployed a large number of mines.
Regarding mines, they simply announced: "Our country has deployed mines in the English Channel, North Sea and other waters."
Just kidding, the English Channel is so long and the North Sea is so wide, where are the mines? Therefore, civilian ships can only consider themselves unlucky if they encounter them.