Chapter 85 Armed Training (1)
In history, the old devil in Matsui Ishione returned from the reserve service in August 1937 and served as the commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army in Japan. Later, he was renamed the commander of the Japanese Central China Front Army. From 1937 to 1938, he led the Japanese army to invade Nanjing and condoned his subordinates to launch the Nanjing Massacre, which was strongly protested by international public opinion. The Japanese base camp was forced to recall it back to Japan, and returned to his hometown of Atami after retirement in 1938.
In 1945, the Far East International Military Tribunal ruled that Matsui Ishione failed to fulfill his commander's duties in the war to prevent inhumane atrocities, so he was sentenced to hang. At 0:00 on December 23, Matsui Ishione was sent to the gallows at Tokyo Suoya Penalty Office. In 1978 (Showa 53), the Matsui tablet moved to the Yasujiya Kamiya Toilet together with other Class A war criminals.
"Order all division commanders to meet."
Matsui Ishione is an expert in the Japanese army's attack and battle. This Japanese devil has a lot of research on the attack and battle, otherwise he would not have been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army.
In the Shanghai Expeditionary Force Command, General Matsui Ishione directly summoned several division commanders into the combat room. This combat room is much larger than Rommel's and is laid out in a luxurious manner. The walls are full of various military maps, and a huge sand table in the middle is a huge sand table. The Japanese's sand table is much more refined than Rommel's sand table. In order to invade China, Japan began to draw maps of China a long time ago.
Matsui Ishien also asked several division commanders to look at the sand table first, and then began to say a little:
"According to the information we obtained, Germany has sent a total of 100,000 tons of arms to China this time, one armored army's weapons and equipment, and another reinforced flight regiment. Although it is an armored army, Germany only equips one armored regiment tanks this time, with a number of about 200, which is not as large as our tank wing. However, from the intelligence analysis, there are only a dozen more advanced tanks among these tanks, and the rest are second-hand tanks used by Germany, which are similar to our tanks.
In addition, the Flying Eagle Legion organized by the Germans came to China to participate in the war. Most of their soldiers were Chinese soldiers, and the real German soldiers were only 5,000. Even if these Chinese soldiers obtained German equipment, would they be the opponent of our Imperial Army?"
"Report to Commander, we have not fought with the German divisions of the National Army in Shanghai. Although their combat effectiveness is stronger, they are not the opponents of our Imperial Army. The three German divisions of the Chinese army are almost wiped out by us in Shanghai... Haha..."
"Yes! Even if the Chinese soldiers are equipped with German equipment, they are not the opponent of our Imperial Army."
Matsui Ishigen was very satisfied with his subordinates' performance. In order not to damage his morale, Matsui Ishigen did not tell his subordinates about the specific situation, such as individual weapons, cannons and other crucial things, but they did not mention them. As the commander-in-chief of the battle, Matsui Ishigen deeply understood that when the Flying Eagle Legion truly formed its combat power, how terrible firepower output it would have. This is a place where his army is definitely not as good as the Flying Eagle Legion.
Matsui Ishigen's analysis is certain that if the Flying Eagle Legion forms combat power, it will cause great trouble for him. He has not thought that the Flying Eagle Legion will bring devastating disaster to his troops. This is a later story.
In order to prevent the Flying Eagle Legion from forming combat effectiveness, Matsui Ishigen must increase the attack strength as soon as possible, break through the defense line of the Chinese army as soon as possible, and wipe out the Flying Eagle Legion, which has not yet formed combat effectiveness, under the city of Nanjing. The old Japanese devils of Matsui Ishigen were still very beautiful, but they didn't know if they would collapse their old teeth.
"I order: All divisions and regiments have two days off to replenish ammunition, and launch a full-scale attack in two days. Be sure to break through the defense line set by the Chinese army on the periphery of Nanjing in one fell swoop, and then attack Nanjing City in six directions. You must fight and rush hard, and don't give the Chinese army any chance to breathe. The specific combat plan will be delivered to you soon,"
"Hi! Long live the locust."
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Both sides were making preparations before the war. Rommel made his subordinates and Chinese soldiers together, and fired live ammunition. The good soldiers were fed with bullets. Rommel was not hesitant at all in this regard. The martial law around the Nanjing University Campground was already in a state of martial law. Every day from morning to night, there were gunfires and cannons rumbling. There was no stop for a moment. The citizens of Nanjing did not think that this was noise pollution, but felt extremely at ease. The sound of gunfire and cannons were their guardian god, their lullaby, and their reassurance. The citizens of Nanjing were extremely stable because of the sound of gunfire and were not as panicked as before.
At the same time, citizens also talked about it:
"The German Flying Eagle Legion comes, and Japan is waiting to die!"
"Yes! Look at the Flying Eagle Legion, there are so many tanks and cannons. When the Flying Eagle Legion meets, there will be no scum left."
The citizens of Nanjing are still too optimistic. The Flying Eagle Legion is not omnipotent. Their strength is not yet at the point where they can change the entire battle situation.
Rommel was writing a combat plan in his office. After the plan was written, it would be handed over to the Legion General Staff to correct the mistakes. The German staff had extremely high quality and were trained through professional military academies. After the combat plan was released, Rommel had to hand over the combat plan to the Chinese commander-in-chief and wait for Chiang Kai-shek to approve it.
"Report."
"Andite, if you don't train your own troops, why do you run to me?"
Li Mo now has three names. He himself thinks he is a Chinese who traveled through time. In the eyes of the Germans, he is Krupp's only son, Krupp Ondet. In the eyes of the Chinese, everyone likes to call him Krupp Little, but the name is him anyway.
"Teacher, I want to act one play today and tomorrow?"
"Acting, what tricks do you want to play?"
"The teacher is like this. I think Japanese spies in China will definitely pay attention to our movements at all times. Even if we set off at 2 a.m. the day after tomorrow, Japanese spies will discover our actions. So I think these two nights, at 2 a.m. every day, we will pull the soldiers out for armed training. The bigger the movement, the better. The next morning we were swaggering back to the military camp. At the same time, we were asking the Republic of China government to issue an apology announcement, saying that our Flying Eagle Legion will carry out armed training every night in the next month.
In this way, the Japanese spies will not be suspicious of our mobilization at night, and will even analyze some useful information from our apology announcement, such as based on the time of our armed training for one month, we will find that we will continue to train for one month."
"Haha, you guys have many ideas. This is what you said in ancient military books, build a plank road openly and travel to Chencang secretly!"
"Teacher, you even know this idiom! Students admire you as if the rivers are endless..."
"Get out, go train the troops..."
"As for orders, my teacher."
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Chapter completed!