On the afternoon of September 16, An Yi, Shen Fengdao and others returned to Nanjing together. As for Yang Jie, An Yi arranged a special plane to go back to Dali, Yunnan Province to get married.
During An Yi's trip, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized the army, dismissed Chen Cheng as commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, and appointed Chen to succeed him as commander of the group army.
Chen Chengi suddenly went from sitting on the bench to serving as the hot-sought commander of the group army. Happiness came so fast that he almost couldn't accept this reality. After calming down, Chen Chengi immediately rushed to Qilu to express his gratitude to Chairman Chiang and show his loyalty.
With this promotion, it was obvious that Chen Chengchi could not follow An Yi to Nanhua. In order to control the army as soon as possible, Chen Chengchi arranged all his Huangpu comrades who were going to Nanhua to the 15th Group Army.
An Yi knew that after all, Chen Jieshe was one of the eight famous King Kongs under Chiang Kai-shek. If he was poached, what would be Chiang Kai-shek's face? As for those Huangpu classmates who couldn't get ahead, Chiang Kai-shek might not take it seriously. It was probably Chen Jieshi.
Inherit the arrangement made to increase the impact on the army.
Qilu, because Soong Meiling was still in confinement and did not like to see people, and Chiang Ching-kuo had returned to Nanchang, it seemed particularly quiet. An Yi still went to the nursery to see the child, and then followed Chiang Kai-shek to the study.
An Yi did not mince his words and told Chiang Kai-shek what he saw and heard during his trip to the vast countryside of the Yangtze River Delta plains, but he did not add his own opinions.
In fact, everyone with a discerning eye knows that in order to deal with the increasingly serious crisis of confrontation in rural areas, the reforms adopted by Chiang Ching-kuo in Jiangxi are the right medicine. Now it depends on whether Chiang Kai-shek has the courage to implement it. This will not only trigger the reaction of those in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
In the interests of civil servants, many of the military commanders whose families are powerful and own a lot of land will encounter a huge backlash.
After listening to An Yi's introduction, Chiang Kai-shek nodded silently, and after a long time he said:
"An Yi, things in rural areas are very complicated. Changes cannot be made in a day. At present, Japan still occupies Shandong, North China and Northeast China. We must temporarily devote our energy to fighting Japan. It is not appropriate to offend the gentry too much...
..This time, as you expected, Poland's defeat is a foregone conclusion. It seems that it is inevitable that the European War will turn into a world war.
"An Yi, as you said last time, with the outbreak of the war, the demand for industrial and agricultural products from Britain, France and other countries will continue to increase... We can make a fuss in this area. The industry will rise, and the factory will
As the employed population increases, the idle population in rural areas will naturally decrease accordingly. Unless landlords do their own farming, they will naturally pay attention to reducing the burden on farmers. Perhaps rural problems can be solved through this method. I would like to have a good talk with you on specific matters."
An Yixin said that it would be better not to change. In this way, the conflicts in the rural areas will become more acute, so that I can attract immigrants to Nanhua. However, he did not show it at all on his face. He sat up straight and said sincerely:
"Improving the country's industrial level is a major matter related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Students are naturally responsible. I just want to discuss specific projects with the principal. Blindly launching the project will not only cause a huge waste of resources, but also lead to a decrease in profits due to vicious competition."
Chiang Kai-shek smiled slightly, called Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi to discuss together, and asked Chen Buley to take notes. A marathon negotiation began.
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"Boom boom——"
The Japanese division headquarters shook violently, and dust fell one after another, making everyone in the bunker look gray and gray.
Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru, the commander of the 20th Division, listened carefully and discovered that it was not the Anjia Army's artillery shelling, but an aircraft. The roar of engines could be heard in the sky, followed by an even denser number of aircraft dropping bombs.
The whistling sounds came one after another.
"Baga, it's another plane bombing...The Imperial Air Force is really incompetent. It handed over air supremacy to others in just one month. How can we continue to fight this war?" Ushijima Minari waved his fist unwillingly and was angry.
The ground roared.
Chief of Staff Major General Sato Takayasu had a gloomy look on his face: "There is no way. The empire's limited steel must be used to manufacture ships, aircraft and guns at the same time. Our fighter planes have consumed a lot of air battles in northern China. Although a large number of Americans have been introduced,
aircraft, but due to many
Due to the above reasons, we have completely fallen behind our opponents since the end of last year! Coupled with the difficulties in replenishing fuel and ammunition in Western Siberia, and the empire’s focus has turned to Southeast Asia, it will be a matter of time before we lose air supremacy, but I did not expect this day to come so quickly.
That’s all.”
Ushijima waved his hand and asked Sato Takayasu to go out. He sighed secretly. He didn't know how long this round of bombing would last. How many fortresses and fortifications in the front positions would be destroyed, and how many imperial warriors would die on the plane.
under bombing?
Recruit Kobayashi Ryoukichi lay dead in the trench, with his mouth wide open, screaming in fear and helplessness. Under the intensive bomb blast, his ears were shaken with blood by the loud sound. Compared with the bombing of the plane,
Kobayashi Ryoukichi preferred Anjiajun to carry out artillery bombardment. Grenades falling in a parabola were much less of a threat to the trenches than aerial bombs falling straight down.
Kobayashi Ryoukichi's body was pressed tightly to the ground, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and fragments of limbs and broken arms kept flying around him, making him feel like he was in hell.
"Damn it, it's planes again. When will the bombing stop? The incompetent aviation force retreats when faced with tough battles, making us suffer here."
Before joining the army, the propaganda in Japan was all about how powerful the Japanese air force was. After joining the army, what they learned was another story. Therefore, Kobayashi Ryoukichi kept cursing to vent his dissatisfaction with the aviation force. Unfortunately at this time
, no one could echo his words. Under the fierce bombing, there was no one alive around him, and there were corpses everywhere.
Since the morning, the continuous shelling and aircraft bombings have almost made people's spirits almost collapse.
"ah--"
Kobayashi Ryoukichi screamed again, and an object with a strong bloody smell fell from the air onto Kobayashi's face. At first he thought it was an aerial bomb, and thought he was dead. After a while, he woke up and turned his head.
If you look closely, you can see the angry head of the team leader, Second Lieutenant Nao Nakajima.
Kobayashi Ryoukichi looked around numbly. There was no living creature around. It seemed that everything in the world had been destroyed by the bombing of Anjiajun's planes and artillery.
At this time, Kobayashi Ryoukichi suddenly felt that there seemed to be fewer aerial bombs falling in the sky. He raised his head. The entire position was covered by thick smoke and he could not see anything. He could only turn his head sideways and listen carefully.
The roar of airplane motors in the sky seemed to be fading away.
"Okay, it's finally over!"
Kobayashi Ryokichi raised his head, then leaned against the trench, sat upright, and breathed heavily. Although his body was sore and numb, he did not dare to stand up. Since the battle last month, many people have died.
This is an insignificant stop. There are specialized snipers in the opposing army, and often without paying much attention, if you show your head slightly, you may be shot in the head.
"boom--"
Before he could take a few breaths, suddenly the sound of artillery, which was more intensive than the plane bombing, rang out again, and the entire defense line was violently shaking.
A shell exploded next to Kobayashi Ryokichi. He felt something warm on his face, and his eyes were invaded by an inexplicable liquid, which turned his vision into blood red. Kobayashi Ryokichi subconsciously reached out and wiped it on his face.
After taking a closer look, a feeling of vomiting filled his chest. Almost instantly, his consciousness suddenly left his body and fell to the ground. It turned out that his hands were all covered with sticky red and white brain matter.
The thunderous sound of shelling broke the silence that lasted less than a minute. Just after the plane bombing, more intensive shelling began again. The barrage was thousands of meters wide. The entire Japanese position was completely covered by the rich and pungent smoke.
The trenches, bunkers and fortifications that were surrounded by them were all destroyed by artillery fire. Countless limbs and broken arms fell down again and again, and then turned into smaller fragments and were thrown into the air. The ground was filled with bloody corpses.
The half-hour-long shelling seemed like a century ago.
Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru was extremely anxious. After the continuous bombardment, he did not know how many people were left in the two regiments he had deployed on the front line, but he knew that he could only continue to send reinforcements forward to withstand the An family army.
At present, only the First Army and the Third Army are struggling to support the front line of Ozero Karachi and cover the main force of the front army's retreat eastward. Once the front line collapses, the consequences will be unimaginable, and caesarean disembowelment will be the only option.
As the Anjia Army in Mongolia continued to send troops to harass the Siberian Railway, the Japanese army encountered great logistical difficulties. At the same time, the Japanese army base camp had established a plan to move south. Siberia, which was like a useless place, had to be abandoned. The bottom line for the Japanese army was to retreat.
Lake Baikal to ensure the safety of Manchuria. But before that, all the mechanical equipment and minerals in Western Siberia must be shipped back to Manchuria to enrich the empire's industrial industry. Therefore, most of the remaining six armies that invaded Western Siberia
He became an engineer responsible for transportation.
No one expected that the An family army would launch a sudden attack at this time, which caught Ushijima off guard, who thought he could survive the retreat safely.
The sound of artillery gradually became sparse, and Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru had a premonition that the opponent was about to launch a general attack, so he immediately sent an order to send out the reserve team.
Li Jinlong's front army, which was responsible for the main attack, was originally a standard motorized mechanical corps. It and Ye Cheng's tank army group went all the way north from Xufu in southern Sichuan, across the prefecture, from the southwest to the northwest, into Mongolia, and then to Central Asia.
Participate in the war.
As a motorized corps, although the number of tanks is not as high as that of a dedicated tank corps, including the tank brigades directly under the front army and the tank regiments attached to each group army, there are more than 500 tanks in total, which is incomparable to the Japanese army.
Different from a nightmare.
When six tank regiments launched an attack on the Japanese army along a front of more than 20 kilometers, the dust raised was overwhelming.
Lieutenant Colonel Shi Tianyou, wearing a black armored cap on his head, poked his head out of the commander's command tower of the Leopard I tank. He looked at the torrent of advancing tanks, quickly retracted into the vehicle, put down the tower cover, and took the
Pick up the intercom and say loudly:
"Each company listens to my order. Our target is the position of the 20th Division opposite. This division was annihilated by our Anjia Army in the organic area in North China, and later resurrected. We will try to destroy it again this time, do you understand?
Take the company as a unit and conduct staggered assaults. Advance!"
The frontline commander, Major Tadoko Sadaemon, who was lying in the trench, understood at the moment when the barrage became sparse that the Yasu Army was about to launch a general attack.
Major Tasoko Sada looked around, and saw that in the trench that had been mutilated by the bombing, except for three or five trembling soldiers nestled in it, the rest were all covered in blood-red body fragments.
Major Tadokoro Sadaemon is a veteran who participated in the last world war. He is 45 years old this year. He chose to retire after the Great Kanto Earthquake and was urgently drafted into the army in October last year. More than 20 years ago, Captain Tadokoro Sada served in
During the battle to attack Qingdao, he encountered fierce German artillery fire, but the intensity of the artillery fire at that time was almost different from what it is now, which made Tadokoro Sadaemon, the captain of the battalion, feel like he was in the end of the world.
At this moment, soldiers suddenly appeared from the traffic trench leading to the rear. A lieutenant dressed as a cat came to Tasho Sadaemon and whispered: "Major Tasho Sada, I have been ordered to come for reinforcements. Please
instruct."
Tadokoro Sadaemon perked up and asked, "Lieutenant Itazu, how many of you are coming up?"
"The losses on all fronts were heavy. I only brought two squadrons..." Shoichi Itazu replied respectfully.
"Okay, Mr. Itazu, take a squadron to the front line immediately! Kawamura's squadron is probably all destroyed. The remaining squadron will immediately follow me to strengthen the defense. The Anjia Army will attack soon." Major Tian Suosada pointed to the front.
Front said.
Following Tadoko Sadaemon's order, hundreds of Japanese soldiers, led by the short Lieutenant Shoichi Itazu, rushed toward the forward position along the bombed-out transportation ditch, completely ignoring the constant falling of shells above their heads.
As a member of the standing division, the dense rain of bullets and the casualties of his colleagues did not break the will of the Japanese. Instead, they aroused the animal nature deep in their hearts. Just when Lieutenant Masaichi Ibazu led the soldiers to the forward position,
I felt that the ground began to tremble regularly. On the smoke-filled battlefield, there was a deafening roar of motors. The particles of soil and sand that were blown away on the trenches continued to shake down.
Through the gap of filled gunpowder smoke, Itazu saw what he least expected to see. Tanks made loud roaring noises and rushed towards the trenches, like thousands of troops, unstoppable!
"Baga! It's a tank!"
Banjin was actually very familiar with the tanks that appeared on the battlefield. In this tug-of-war that lasted more than a month, the tanks used by the Japanese army as a feint attack were continuously attacked by the opponent's artillery fire, and seven or eighty-eight tanks were lost. The last group of tanks
It was under the attack of tanks like this that they were completely destroyed. However, the opponent has never used tanks to attack the enemy, and they have never used so many tanks. Could it be said that this is the opponent's true strength?
Among the Japanese soldiers in the forward position, under the continuous bombing and artillery fire, only one person was left alive. The former squadron leader Kawamura who was guarding the place had turned into a pile of rotten flesh.
After Banjin asked the dying sergeant, he immediately took over the defense, commanded the soldiers, and used the two 37mm anti-tank guns, crooked machine guns, and Type 38 rifles on the position to shoot at the rolling tanks.
The results were very disappointing,
The 37mm gun specially designed to deal with tanks cannot break through the opponent's armor at all, let alone machine gun and rifle bullets. The only effect of shooting is to wipe out a few strings of sparks on the armor surface of the opponent's tank. It is fleeting and cannot be used at all.
prevent its progress.
Lieutenant Itazu Shoichi couldn't help but feel very frustrated. How thick was the armor of the opponent's tank? Why couldn't even specialized anti-tank weapons hurt the opponent at all? Is that the only way to use it?
Banjin looked around reluctantly, and suddenly found a pair of binoculars abandoned in the trench. He quickly ran over and picked it up carefully.
One side of the telescope lens was broken, but the other side was still intact. Banjin wiped the lens clean with his clothes, then lay down on the trench and looked forward. In the telescope, the Anjia Army infantrymen crouching behind the tank appeared.
They were dressed in camouflage uniforms, and the expressions on their faces were so resolute and confident that it gave people chills.
The squad leader, Second Lieutenant Shanxian Zangtie, who was lying beside the trench, leaned over and whispered: "Itazu-kun, don't worry! There is an anti-tank trench ahead! The enemy can't get through."
Ban Jinzhengyi said nothing and frowned slightly. The Anjia Army was so powerful that I didn't know if the anti-tank trenches would be effective.
Just then, the sharp whistling sound of flying artillery shells filled the air.
"Shock! Get down!"
Banjin shouted loudly and hid in the trench without moving. The entire squadron of Japanese soldiers squatted in the trench. The shelling of Anjiajun was so impressive. Just look at the densely packed and mutilated corpses around the position.
I know how scary it is to face a hail of bullets.
However, the roar of the exploding artillery shells did not come, but instead a dull "puff" sound came. It turned out that the artillery of the Anjia Army fired a row of smoke bombs this time, and the shells landed at a position of ten meters in front of the position.
The yellow smoke spread out within seconds and drifted toward the front of the position.
"No, it's a gas bomb!"
Itazin Shoichi, who was looking around, reminded him again, but in a hurry, where are the anti-gas equipment? Most of the Japanese soldiers stuck their butts out, panicked and buried their heads in the soil full of blood, and some even held their breath.
He peed and then put his head close to the urine-filled soil to avoid the poisonous gas.
If Banjin and Shanxian were not so panicked, or if their vision could penetrate the smoke, they would have seen the infantry originally following the tanks separated into two columns, holding ladders and explosives, under the cover of smoke bombs.
He quickly walked along both sides of the tank and accelerated towards the anti-tank trench in front. After approaching the trench, he immediately jumped down.
"Prepare to blast!"
After placing the explosives, the engineers in the anti-tank trench quickly climbed out along the ladder. After reaching a safe position, as the command was given, violent explosions were heard.
Both sides of the anti-tank trench, which was five meters wide and two meters deep, were blown down. The soil dumped to the ground formed a gentle slope, which was enough for tanks to pass smoothly.
The engineers who carried out the anti-tank trench blasting were the engineers directly under the tank force. After many trainings, they had become very skilled in cooperating with the tanks. The tanks did not even need to slow down. By the time they arrived in front of the tank trench, the road had already been blasted, and the tank only needed to
Just sprint forward.
With a huge roar, the tank rushed through the anti-tank ditch with almost no hindrance. The infantry quickly followed behind the tank. At the same time, the artillery fire from the rear began to extend fire to cover the charge of the tanks and infantry.
At this time, the entire battlefield was filled with thick smoke. The tanks were approaching, like the tide of the Qiantang River. They were continuous and rushing forward. The staggered formations formed sharp cones, harvesting continuously like saw teeth.
Taking the lives of the Japanese soldiers.
The tank covered with camouflage colors appeared and disappeared in the thick smoke. The turret swayed in the black smoke. The tracks rolled up dust and dust, rising on the ground. As the tank speeded, it brought up strong winds.
Following the strings of sparks ejected from the exhaust pipe, flying everywhere.
The roar of the diesel engine and the clang of the tracks crushing the ground became more and more harsh. Only then did the Japanese come back to their senses. They all raised their heads from the soil and lay down in front of the trench to observe the situation.
"Baga, the Chinese tanks have crossed the trenches in front, the death squads are ready!"
Seeing the tanks looming in the thick fog, Lieutenant Itazin immediately understood that he had been tricked and quickly made amends.
Soon, a sergeant tied a white ribbon on his head, took off his military uniform, bare his upper body, climbed out of the trench with a detachment of Japanese soldiers, and approached the tank.
The Japanese, crawling in the scorched earth and grass, crawled toward the huge, dark craters densely scattered at the front of the position. From time to time, they hid themselves in the craters created by aircraft bombs and artillery shells to avoid the bullets and artillery shells flying overhead.
At this time, the Japanese soldier had crawled about ten meters away from the shrapnel, twisting his body from time to time, crawling forward between the bare trees and grass that were half cut off by the shrapnel.
Lieutenant Banjin looked expectantly at the death squads approaching the tank. The smoke produced by the explosion of smoke grenades fired by the Anjia Army artillery still did not dissipate, covering the death squads approaching the tank. They were crawling between the bomb craters and the grass.
, disappearing into the craters from time to time, and the figure disappears and appears.
"Baga! Why are you waiting so long? Hurry up and rush over!"
When he saw the tanks approaching continuously and the suicide squads lying in the craters never jumping out, Banjin cursed loudly in frustration.
A sergeant bent down and ran to Banjin and Shanxian: "Mr. Banjin, Mr. Shanxian, I will take our detachment to ensure that we complete the mission..."
Before he finished speaking, a huge explosion sounded, and a shell landed next to the Japanese Army Sergeant. Banjin and Shanxian immediately fell to the ground. The Army Sergeant's lower body was still standing on the ground, but his upper body had turned into a full body.
Minced meat from the sky. Then, his legs gave out and half of his body fell to the ground.
Itazu Shoichi and Yamagata Kuratetsu looked at each other, and both saw deep fear in each other's eyes. Lieutenant Itazu swallowed his saliva, held back the sour water in his heart, and quickly stood up from the ground.
Lie down on the trench and watch the tanks getting closer and closer.
On the position, the Japanese soldiers were firing desperately with the weapons in their hands, and more than fifty meters in front of the position, mud-gray bodies like writhing insects were still moving closer to the tank.
At this time, a crouching figure suddenly jumped up from the crater and rushed towards the tank at full speed. In the blink of an eye, the man had already reached a crater only three or four meters away from the tank in front of him. Then he jumped up again and headed towards the tank.
He rushed toward the tank. While running, he took off the bomb package from his back, lit the fuse, and then desperately tried to get the explosive package toward the tank.
At this moment, several short strings of firelight flashed from behind the tank. The death squad member suddenly stopped in his tracks, his body kept swaying, and another string of firelights flashed. The devil spun around and turned in another direction. His whole body
He fell to the ground, and underneath his body was the burning explosive bag.
Almost in the blink of an eye, a dazzling light flashed out, and a violent explosion blew the corpse lying on the ground into countless pieces. A thigh with rags hanging on it finally landed in front of Lieutenant Itazin.
At the same time as the unlucky death squad member took action, more than a dozen other team members took the same action, and the results they encountered were similar. They were all killed by the infantry behind the tank, which was only one or two seconds.
The distance of meters has become an insurmountable chasm.
A small group of suicide squad members were all wiped out. The only result was that one of them fell to the ground only about half a meter away from the tank. Fortunately, the explosive package was not suppressed. The explosion caused some damage to the nearby tank. However, after a moment, the
Another tank rushed over with a roar. Although the Japanese kamikaze soldier was not blown to pieces, he was then crushed into a pulp by the tank's tracks.
On the entire front, almost all the Japanese used human bombs. Although the squadron led by Lieutenant Itazin failed, other squadrons were lucky enough to succeed. This round of human bomb attacks cost the tank troops six casualties.
tanks, and eleven others suffered heavy damage and lost their combat capabilities.
However, compared to more than 500 tanks, the losses of these tanks did not affect the overall situation. A large number of tanks rushed to the Japanese defense line. With a collision, the parapet that had become very loose due to the shelling was quickly broken through, and the sky was filled with sand and gravel.
Debris splashed up, and dust rose into the air.
Lieutenant Colonel Shi Tianyou sat in the command vehicle and clearly saw the distorted faces of the Japanese on the battlefield through the observation hole, and issued the assault order without hesitation.
Immediately, the well-prepared tank barrels began to spit out shells, and machine gun fire sounded continuously. The Japanese soldiers hidden in trenches and bunkers were knocked to the ground one by one, and flesh and blood were scattered all over the sky.
Bunkers and underground fortifications are the main obstacles to infantry assaults, and are also the main targets for tank troops to clear. As for the Japanese soldiers in the trenches and bunkers on the front line, they have suffered heavy losses under the repeated baptism of aircraft and artillery. The Anjia Army infantry, tightly
Following the tanks, they jumped from trench to trench. The few remaining Japanese soldiers could only surrender while gnashing their teeth and roaring to death.
The stubborn Lieutenant Masaichi Itatsu and Second Lieutenant Kuratetsu Yamagata were beaten to a pulp. Not long after, the trenches in charge of the battalion commander Major Tasho Sadaemon were also breached. The Japanese divisions sent reinforcements to the front several times, but faced
The Anjia Army was powerless against the tanks that were clearing the way. Before dark on the 16th, the remnants had to retreat to the city of Ozero Karachi, preparing to use the city's fortifications to fight stubbornly.
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