Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

In the imperial hall, more than a dozen of Japan's most powerful high-level officials are still immersed in the military minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima sketched out for everyone. When there is no chance of losing the picture.

A sound of slightly hurried footsteps suddenly came from the entrance of the main hall, and then, a gap was opened in the closed door of the Imperial Palace.A servant hurriedly walked up to the Prime Minister and whispered something.

The servant standing next to the cabinet prime minister had just left, and the cabinet prime minister standing in front of the hall, who had been silent all this time, suddenly showed a smile from the bottom of his heart.Later, Emperor Hirohito reported to the throne with a puzzled expression: "Your Majesty, good news, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just sent us a good news from the National Government..."

"The Chinese Nationalist Government, at the cost of opening up the mining rights of the southeastern provinces to the Japanese Empire, hopes that the Imperial Japanese Army can put on a posture of attacking the National Defense Forces in the Korean area, and together with the Soviet government and the Chinese Nationalist Government, To eliminate the increasingly powerful national defense force, at the very least, we must trap it to death on the land of the three northeastern provinces..."

"Yoxi..." Emperor Hirohito quickly flashed a smile on his face, and said to the ministers standing in the hall with emotion: "China is indeed a country that likes infighting very much. Sovereignty can be handed over. If China continues to fight like this, the vast land of China will sooner or later become a colony of the Great Japanese Empire...."

As soon as the words fell, Yoshiyuki Kawashima, Minister of the Army, complimented: "Your Majesty, I fully support your majesty's grand goal. Not only that, but I also thought that this request telegram from the National Government in front of me can be regarded as my great Japan. The Empire was a cover for the army's surprise advance into the southeastern provinces of China...."

Seeing Emperor Hirohito looking at him with eyes full of approval, Kawashima Yoshiyuki continued to analyze: "Your Majesty, colleagues, I think that we can use the reason of dispatching mine exploration teams to several provinces in southeastern China to continue to Shanghai through transport ships. Sending troops and corresponding weapons and equipment. After the total strength of the empire in Shanghai, China reached two infantry regiments, they immediately occupied Shanghai, the most prosperous economy in southeast China, under the cover of naval ships. Then, under the cover The follow-up troops of the Imperial Army landed in Shanghai, further launched an attack on the interior of China, and completely occupied the southeastern provinces of China...."

The right time... The right place... People and... For the Japanese, these three prerequisites for launching a war undoubtedly came again.so.Faced with Kawashima Yoshiyuki's tempting proposal, the dozen or so ministers who came to the imperial meeting made almost no sense, and made a decision under the decision of Emperor Hirohito...

When the Japanese government began to premeditate the southeastern provinces of China because of this decision, an unprecedented air battle on the Mongolian prairie thousands of meters away from the Japanese mainland was ending with the active retreat of the Air Force of the National Defense Forces.

Of course, this active retreat was not part of the National Defense Forces Air Force's advance combat plan, but had to be retreated in order to leave some seeds for the participating air forces to regain their strength.

In this air battle, the three fighter brigades of the National Defense Forces Air Force had more than one hundred Wildcat fighters, and the wealthy Soviet Air Force successively invested in two flying regiments.A total of more than two hundred latest fighter jets participated in the battle.

Facing the continuous participation in battles, the Soviet fighter group has an absolute advantage both in number and in fighter speed.The three fighter brigades of the National Defense Forces Air Force participating in the battle suffered heavy losses.

In less than an hour of fighting, the three fighter brigades successively eliminated more than [-] Soviet fighter planes by virtue of their firepower superiority and fighter dexterity.However, under the attack of the rough-skinned and thick-skinned Soviet fighter planes.The three fighter brigades also paid nearly a hundred losses.

Facing the continuous flow of aircraft joining the battlefield from the rear of the Soviet army, the remaining dozen or so Wildcat fighters in the air combat airspace had to evacuate the battlefield hastily under the cover of ground air defense forces, temporarily giving up air supremacy in the combat airspace.

Lost air supremacy.Luo Zhang's headquarters, which stood in front of the Soviet Red Army, could only rely on limited air defense regiments and tunnel fortifications to conduct guerrilla defenses and counterattacks one after another with the dark cloud-like fleet of the Soviet Air Force.

A series of violent explosions sounded from the forward positions.Several Soviet heavy tanks rushing all the way to their position burst into fireballs in an instant, and then.These tanks stopped motionless and began to burn.

Of course, in the face of this attack, the other Soviet tanks lined up were not idle.Just as more than a dozen groups of flames flashed from the forward positions of the Ninth Army, a dense rain of machine gun bullets and tank shells all poured towards the positions of these bazooka players.In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen bazooka players exposed to the Soviet army were completely lost.

And at this moment, several balls of flames burst out again on the front position completely covered by various bullets and shells, and then more than a dozen rockets with fiery red tail flames flew out of the position and shot towards the Soviet army who was close at hand. Tank side armor flew away.

Another series of violent explosions sounded, and just now it was like a firepower bunker that was constantly advancing, and several Soviet tanks that kept pouring ammunition towards the forward position stopped moving and turned into new balls of fire.

Facing the imminent death attack, the Soviet tanks standing in front of the infantry had to retreat immediately.It acts as a fixed firepower point outside the range of the Wehrmacht bazooka, and the infantry behind the cover attack the Ninth Army's position bravely.

"Ula... Ula..." Amidst the deafening sound of guns and guns, and encouraged by political commissars at all levels, thousands of Soviet Red Army troops, like a herd of fearless cattle, shouted shocking slogans and rushed from tank to tank. The gap rushed out.

Facing the Soviet Red Army suddenly exposed in front of the position, the defenders of the National Defense Forces who had been hiding in the trenches and bunkers quickly stretched out their gun barrels and fired a dense rain of intercepting firepower to the front of the position.

"Da da da..." Amidst the dense gunfire, the Soviet Red Army charged at the forefront despite using various tactical evasion actions they had learned.At that time, on the vast grassland without any shelter, any evasion seemed so useless.The densely packed Soviet Red Army.It's like mature wheat, being cut down to the ground in pieces by dense fire tongue sickles.

but.The moment the soldiers of the frontline Wehrmacht counterattacked with firepower, they also completely exposed themselves to the firepower coverage of dozens of Soviet tanks.

On a vast prairie of flat land.The two-meter-high Soviet heavy tank is undoubtedly a very strong bunker that can also shoot condescendingly.

The National Defense Forces holding their positions had just begun to counterattack. Dozens of high-level dual-purpose large-caliber machine guns located on the top of the tank turret, like a pack of wolves who had found their prey, sprayed hot tongues of flames at the National Defense Forces exposed on the surface.

Not only that, the tank guns that were tilted up high also quickly lowered their muzzles, and the gunners inside the tanks quickly replaced ordinary high-explosive shells with armor-piercing shells.Accompanied by a violent roar from the tank, dozens of armor-piercing shells fired at close range were more accurate than eyes.All hit the reinforced concrete bunkers on the position that were constantly shooting out flames.

Although the heavy reinforced concrete bullets defended against most of the armor-piercing projectiles, when several armor-piercing projectiles hit the bunker at the same time, it was very easy to destroy the outer wall of the reinforced concrete bunker and explode inside the bunker.

I watched rows and rows of soldiers in the trenches being shot and turned into corpses under the attack of Soviet tanks' high-level dual-purpose machine guns. The firepower points and reinforced concrete bunkers were destroyed one after another under the attack of tank guns, and they were always hidden in the tunnel behind the battlefield. The heavy artillery finally moved.

After lifting the concealment covered on the surface, a total of twelve large-caliber howitzers deployed in the huge tunnel suddenly revealed their hideous faces.Then, before the Soviet Air Force cruising over the battlefield could react.Quickly fired artillery shells weighing tens of kilograms to the position of the Soviet tanks.

Under the joint control of hundreds of gunners, the twelve heavy artillery poured as many shells as possible on the target position at their fastest rate of fire.Because, once they are fixed in the tunnel and expose their targets, they will be greeted by a devastating blow from the Soviet Air Force.

Round after round.When the tenth round of artillery shells smashed into the middle of the Soviet tank group with a whistling sound and exploded, several Soviet bombers whizzing down finally appeared over the artillery positions.

A series of violent explosions and shell explosions sounded behind the battlefield, except for dozens of hundreds of gunners who retreated into the underground fortifications.None of the twelve heavy artillery of a heavy artillery battalion slipped through the net, and all of them were turned into scrap iron.

certainly.In the explosion of more than a hundred heavy artillery shells, the remaining dozens of tanks in the Soviet tank group also suffered heavy losses.More than a dozen tanks were very lucky to be directly hit by shells.The circular turret was either torn apart by shells, or it was blown up without a trace and separated from the tank body.Looking around, the tank weighing dozens of tons seemed to have its head cut off, and it was parked on the battlefield very ferociously.

In addition, there are more than a dozen tanks that did not suffer any damage on the surface, but were only blackened by the huge flames produced by the shell explosion.But in fact, these tanks were attacked by the shock wave generated by the close-range explosion of the shells without exception, and the Soviet tankers inside the tanks were bleeding from all seven orifices and turned into corpses at this moment.

After a match, although the Wehrmacht lost twelve heavy artillery pieces, it managed to destroy at least thirty Soviet heavy tanks.More importantly, without the cover of these tanks, the Soviet offensive troops no longer had a fire support point to rely on, and could only be killed by counterattack firepower fired by the Wehrmacht on the way to attack.

This kind of simple death attack is obviously not what the Soviet army needs. Just when the defenders slaughtered the Soviet attacking troops with hatred, the Soviet forward commander had wisely issued an order to retreat.

"Damn it, the old Maozi finally retreated... Chief of Staff, order the 082 Regiment to immediately replace the 081 Regiment that suffered heavy losses. Hurry up. Air defense forces, prepare for air defense immediately. The old Maozi's forward must not be reconciled Failed, the air force was dispatched to bomb our position on a large scale. What the air defense force needs to do is to eliminate all the old Maozi bombers that carry out low-altitude bombing, and prohibit the old Maozi bombers from low-altitude bombing. Only in this way can our position be preserved as much as possible under the artillery fire. Facing the battlefield that quickly returned to calm in the telescope, Commander Luo Zhang, who had been paying attention to every move on the battlefield, ordered decisively.

Ten minutes later, when there were bursts of roar and shell explosions on the battlefield as scheduled, the head of the 10 regiment, who was full of gunpowder, walked into the headquarters with a face full of mourning.

Before Luo Zhang could open his mouth, he reported eagerly: "Army seat. This battle was too miserable... A regiment of [-] brothers lost more than half of them in less than two hours. It was even more cruel than a massacre. ...especially the dual-purpose machine gun on the top of the old Maozi tank, as long as we counterattack from the surface of the position, we will be hit by the bullets fired by the opponent from a high position...."

"I just made a statistic. Among the more than 800 people lost by the whole regiment, at least 900 people were lost to the high-level dual-purpose machine guns on the top of the enemy tanks, and all of them were killed..."

After hearing the complaint from the head of the 081 regiment, the chief of staff of the Ninth Army standing aside said in a deep voice: "Sir, we have seen the situation on the battlefield. If we don't want to solve the old Maozi's planes and tanks, no matter how many troops we have, It will also be consumed little by little like this..."

"I just calculated carefully. The 081 regiment lasted for two hours under the Soviet attack. This means that the six main regiments in our hands can only last for twelve hours at most, which is one day. The commander-in-chief The task given to us is to hold the Soviet forward here for three days, and if we continue to fight like this, even if the entire army is here to die, we will not be able to complete the task.”

Army Commander Luo Zhang couldn't help showing a wry smile from the heart, and asked the chief of staff and others: "I don't know what you are talking about, but, besides defending like this, do we have other options? ?”

"Although we have several tank regiments in our hands, all of them are equipped with medium-sized tanks weighing only more than ten tons. There is almost no room for fighting back against the heavy tanks equipped by Lao Maozi. Under such circumstances, do you still ask me to Order these tank regiments to go out to die..."

"I can say with certainty. After these tank regiments were dispatched, maybe they didn't even see the shadow of the Soviet heavy tanks, and they were all lost in the Soviet air bombing and heavy artillery fire."

"Let's talk about Lao Maozi's superiority in the air force... It's not like you haven't seen the air battle that ended more than an hour ago. There are only a dozen or so fighters left. Are you still planning to count on more than a dozen fighter jets to fight Lao Maozi? Hundreds of fighter jets are desperately fighting to die. Therefore, before the commander-in-chief feels the battlefield, we can't get any air support, and the only thing we can rely on is ourselves. Here, I will hold the old man for three days. Today is the first time. one day….."

Seeing the increasingly serious expressions of his subordinates, Luo Zhang changed the subject and comforted him: "Of course, you don't have to worry too much. Although this battle will bring unprecedented losses to our Ninth Army, we will definitely be able to hold on to it." position.

"When everyone is looking at our losses, don't forget to pay attention to the huge results achieved by the 081 regiment. As far as I can see, in the battle just now, at least 081 Soviet tanks were destroyed in front of the 39 regiment's position. In addition, there are thousands of old men who were shot and killed by us on the battlefield."

"One tank battalion and two infantry battalions were lost in one battle, and one tank regiment and two infantry regiments were lost in three battles. Do you think that the forward troops of the Soviet Red Army with only more than [-] troops can bear such a huge loss. "

"I can tell you with certainty that as long as we successfully destroy one tank division and two infantry divisions of the Soviet army on the battlefield, the Soviet Red Army, which lost one-third of its total strength, will slow down its attack speed. Because the rest of them The troops are no longer enough for a decisive battle with us in Outer Mongolia, and they will become like us, waiting for follow-up troops while fighting."

Luo Zhang was right. In the Soviet command headquarters at this moment, looking at the losses that his subordinates had just collected, the face of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet army immediately became gloomy.Because, plus my own losses in front of the 091 Division position.In just one day, I have lost more than [-] heavy tanks and more than [-] infantry.

You know, according to intelligence, the total strength of the National Defense Forces that he defeated several times in a row only accounted for less than one-third of all the National Defense Forces in Outer Mongolia.More importantly, in the previous few battles, the National Defense Forces were defeated and completely wiped out. The National Defense Forces that successfully retreated to the rear can completely organize themselves to stop themselves.

According to this rate of loss, with the current strength of the forward troops, is it still capable of breaking through the defense line deployed by the National Defense Forces in Outer Mongolia, and fighting a decisive battle with the follow-up reinforcements of the National Defense Forces in Outer Mongolia...

The commander-in-chief of the Soviet army immediately fell into a difficult choice.

At this moment, the political commissar standing aside suddenly said: "Comrade Commander, I think we need to further increase the artillery offensive and air bombing of the National Defense Forces positions. Judging from the current situation, the air power of the National Defense Forces in Outer Mongolia It has been eliminated by us. Only in this way can we achieve maximum results with minimum casualties...."

"Isn't today's air force bombing and artillery offensive not violent enough..." the commander-in-chief asked with a puzzled expression.

The political commissar shook his head resolutely, and suggested to the commander with a murderous look on his face: "Comrade commander, the increase I am talking about is not ordinary air force bombing and artillery attacks, but the use of special units to attack the positions of the National Defense Forces." .”

"As far as I know, during the Sino-Soviet war a year ago, the National Defense Forces used incendiary bombs to destroy our logistics supplies. Now we can completely use fire bombs to burn the National Defense Forces to death on the ground... "(to be continued...)