The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

The above executions were all carried out in public to tell everyone in Nanjing that we, the Volunteer Army, treat everyone equally.

The four major families were all treated like this, so how could the others dare to fart? They immediately became as obedient as quails, obediently handed over what they should hand over, and then entered the atonement camp crying bitterly.

"This is a good opportunity to clean up Nanjing."

The goal of the 1960s and 1970s was to use Nanjing as the base for the volunteer army and then sweep northward to eliminate the Japanese invaders. The garbage of the old era certainly did not want to roll off the stage of history.

Since they are unwilling to hand over the means of production and are unwilling to die, we can only give them "a little" help.

As for how these people died, does it matter? They're all dead anyway, and in the foreseeable future, no one will dare to jump out and whitewash them, because the ultimate goal of the Six Seven is to liberate all mankind.

At this time, the Japanese army no longer dared to bomb Nanjing City, because the players relied on the points resources at hand to build three air defense fortresses around Nanjing City. These air defense fortresses are reinforced concrete structures. Although they are not as strong as the Berlin air defense tower, for daily life, just the large number of anti-aircraft guns laid on them are enough to give their own slow bombers a hard time.

As for high-altitude horizontal bombing, the Japanese bomber aiming equipment in World War II did not support it at all. It was normal for them to aim at Purple Mountain and land at the foot of the mountain. Moreover, the fire interference of anti-aircraft guns was also quite terrifying. Although there was a joke that air defense was "nine out of ten air defenses", the bomber pilots who were really facing dense anti-aircraft fire would not think so.

Besides, few of the devils' planes could fly high, and the International Volunteer Army still had planes to compete for air superiority.

God knows where these planes came from, but they always caught the Japanese by surprise. None of the airports around Nanjing looked to be in use, and no planes were found further away.

What a hell!

What made the Japanese army's defense even more broken were the three main anti-aircraft guns of the Volunteer Army, namely: Oerlikon, Bofors and 88mm Flak18.

Plus a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns.

This corresponds to 20mm, 40mm and 88mm respectively.

The current model used to arrange urban and field air defense positions is to use three 88mm guns as the core and multiple 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft guns around them. However, the field air defense positions also have anti-tank tasks.

Well, don't get me wrong, there is no need for the 88 gun to be used. The 20mm Oerlikon can penetrate the current main tanks of the Japanese army. It is a waste to use the 88 gun.

In fact, only heavy machine guns and armor-piercing bullets are needed. The Japanese tanks are industrial garbage to the volunteers.

In addition to the large number of anti-aircraft positions that drove the Japanese planes crazy, there were also artillery positions on Purple Mountain.

The main peak of Nanjing Purple Mountain is 448.9 meters above sea level. The three peaks are connected and shaped like a giant dragon. It is known as the "Zhongshan Dragon Banner". It is located on the east side of Nanjing city center. Together with the Yangtze River and the Ming City Wall, it constitutes a "mountain, water and city" integrated landscape.

Very beautiful, isn’t it?

But this structure also means that Purple Mountain was incorporated into the Nanjing city defense system and was a crucial commanding height. From here, one could overlook the entire city. If artillery positions were deployed here, the Japanese army attacking Nanjing would be trapped in a steel hell.

Of course, there are also scholars who say that the tombs of the founding father and the Ming emperor are located there and should be protected.

The players are very pleased and believe that these people must be willing to fight to the death to protect these historical sites from war. They are all incorporated into the Death Battalion and given the opportunity to write glory with their blood.

What? You're not going!

So what do you mean? Are you disloyal to the motherland, or do you say it doesn't matter if the volunteers died? As an adult, how can you have double standards? At this time, double standards are undermining national defense construction, treason and collaborating with the enemy. Make your choice!

In this way, a group of scholars, mainly old-school scholars, arrived in the Death Battalion. I believe Confucius would be very pleased to see this scene. The six arts of a gentleman were passed down, which was not easy.

When those people were taking pictures, they were laughing as if they were crying. They must be excited. There is no need to be so excited. When the time comes, you will be arranged to be the first batch to fill the line, so as not to give others the chance to steal the credit. Hey, hey, hey, why are you still crying? It turns out that you are too excited. It is not good for your health. You will easily be stabbed to death by the Japanese bayonets later.

Then those people cried even more happily (sure).

Under the pragmatic spirit of the volunteers, the entire Purple Mountain quickly became a huge construction site, and a large number of heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns were deployed. Players did not care about the importance of historical relics. Now it was a national war, and living people had to be sacrificed, not to mention the dead. All that could be used should be used. Antiques could only represent the past, and we now needed to preserve the future.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang came in person, he would have expressed his great satisfaction. The younger generations of the new era have the same spirit as he did back then, smashing everything and fighting to the end. They should have done so long ago.

The founding father himself had no objection. If his mausoleum could bring about an absolute victory over Japan, he would be happy with it.

Only those who are incompetent and still need the banner of the old era will cling to the spiritual totem of the past. The focus has never been on the high statues, but on the totem of struggle in everyone's heart.

The Japanese army was not foolish, so they would naturally take pictures of the city of Nanjing. Facing the Purple Mountain artillery positions that looked different every day, they were gritting their teeth, and all the commanders had gloomy faces.

How many people are needed to fill Nanjing?

Chapter 19: Solid as a Rock

As modern people, it is hard for us to imagine how inhumane the Japanese military was during World War II.

Take the Japanese Army as an example. During the entire World War II, the salary level of Japanese Army soldiers was completely dung beetle treatment. In 1943, the monthly salary of an Army private was only six yen.

What does this mean? During the same period, the price of a chicken was as high as 3.6 yen, and a pound of beef was 2.3 yen. Soldiers' salaries were not even enough to buy a chicken, and living conditions were comparable to those in Haiti.

Suddenly I understood why the Japanese always liked to go to the villagers' homes to catch chickens during the Anti-Japanese War.

They really can't afford it.

In comparison, the monthly salary of a Japanese construction worker is 117 yen. Now you understand why Japan was a poor imperialist country during World War II.

But even so, Japanese generals understood that these cheap soldiers should not be over-consumed.

Because the cost of training a soldier is there.

The city of Nanjing, which is currently being defended by players as fiercely as Holy Terra, is known to those with an intelligence level higher than that of Paramecium. This city will consume at least 10 lives, and this is under the most optimistic scenario.

At this time, the Japanese army consisted of the most elite veterans who had received the most complete training. Their losses could not be replenished in a short period of time. Once these elite troops suffered irreparable losses, it would be difficult for the Japanese military to launch further attacks on the Kuomintang government in the foreseeable future, at least for a year.

If the pressure is not enough, the Chairman will not surrender. If the Chairman does not surrender, the Japanese army will be deeply trapped in the mainland battlefield. Japan's size makes it impossible to sustain a protracted war, and they will fall into a vicious circle.

The Japanese devils' claim of destroying China in three months was arrogant, but it also reflected their pessimistic expectations about the total amount of their own war preparedness resources.

Within three months, the Japanese government can still guarantee that the war will be profitable. If it exceeds three months, every additional day will be a losing business.

You have to know that one of the important reasons why Japan was able to launch a full-scale invasion of China was that that useless young marshal Zhang abandoned the Northeast without resistance. Even though he demolished all the factories in the Northeast and buried mines and blew up all the mines before leaving, he was still a man of his word. In the end, he left all of them intact to the devils. A considerable part of the Japanese army's ammunition during the full-scale invasion of China was produced by those arsenals in the Northeast that were occupied by the Japanese invaders. In terms of strategic structure, it also gave Japan a strategic advantage over the Qing Dynasty in entering the pass. -p

Anyway, everyone in Northeast China thinks that Young Marshal Zhang deserves to die. Considering the Xi'an Incident, they won't dig up his grave. Just shoot him!

The current situation is that for some unknown reason, the city of Nanjing suddenly began to engage in infrastructure construction like crazy, as if it had taken drugs. Batch after batch of reinforced concrete fortifications sprang up from the ground. No one knew what was happening in Nanjing at this time, and where these things came from. It seemed as if the whole map was full of question marks.

Relying on the life detection tower of the dimensional battleship, Liu Qi can monitor the movement trajectory of everyone in Nanjing City. This may sound insignificant, but the current environment means that those lurking Japanese spies are unlikely to remain indifferent and will definitely investigate Nanjing City. Their movement trajectories can be analyzed accurately through big data predictions, and then players can take care of them. On the surface, this shows that the Volunteer Army has powerful counter-espionage capabilities.

All spies will be brought to justice!

Unlike the Japanese spies in many film and television works, in fact, Japan's intelligence level is only comparable to that of the Kuomintang government, which is worse than our party.

Of course, we have to admit that there were some excellent agents among the Japanese invaders, but compared with the Japanese military with a strong Showa atmosphere, their number was too small. Although they could have an impact, they would not subvert the operating logic of the entire Japanese intelligence system.

The organizational structure is fragmented and inefficient, the technology is backward, there are confidentiality loopholes, it is highly dependent on manpower, there is a lack of scientific analysis methods, and there are even fatal intelligence blind spots in many aspects.

So it is not difficult to catch Japanese spies. The difficult part is that the Kuomintang government is a coward, and often allows captured Japanese spies to return safely.

But these are not a problem for players. As long as they find a Japanese spy, they will definitely not mind killing him directly on the street.

Not long ago, a player tied a Japanese spy to the back of a jeep and dragged him to death.

Nanjing is not leased, but there are many embassies of other countries here. However, these embassies are now controlled by players, and their radio stations and weapons and equipment have been confiscated.

During this process, officials from the British and French embassies stood up to protest and confronted the volunteers.

The result was naturally quite tragic. The players directly dispatched tanks and gave a cordial greeting to the British and French embassies. After more than 30 people were killed or injured unilaterally, the two embassies instantly entered the persuasion mode and honestly handed over everything the players asked them to hand over. Even if the players' hands were not very clean in the process, they completely pretended not to see it.

The tank gun barrel outside was more convincing than anything else, but the officials of the German Embassy thought that thing looked like a tank produced in their country.

"That looks like a Panzer IV."

"It's not like that, it's a Panzer IV A tank. Where did the International Volunteer Army get it from?"

"Could it be that there are still Red Party members in our country? They gave our equipment to..."

There is no way. The name of the Sixth Column of the International Volunteer Army is too easily associated with the International Brigade, and the International Brigade corresponds to the Communist International and the Soviet Union, so everyone assumes that the International Volunteer Army is red.

"If that's the case, things will be troublesome."

The German ambassador looked at the Type IV A tank outside with a complicated expression. If his government provided this weapon to the Nationalist government, it would definitely not be possible not to tell them that this tank is an advanced model even in Germany and it just rolled off the production line this year (the specific mass production time of the Type IV tank was October 1937, which is the Type A. The early models extended to the Type D, and it was produced from 1937 to 1940).

Given the relationship between the Nationalist government and Germany, Type 4A would never appear here. The things involved behind this are terrifying, but now their radio stations have been taken away and the city of Nanjing is on full alert, making it difficult to pass on information to the outside world.

Has the mysterious power of the East begun to take effect? ​​The world suddenly becomes incomprehensible.

Seeing that Nanjing City was about to become a hedgehog, the Japanese headquarters could no longer sit still. They did not want Nanjing City to become the Verdun meat grinder of the East, so the Japanese army began to attack Nanjing rapidly.

Because the waterway was blocked, the northbound fleet was completely wiped out by the player, and the Japanese army had to rely entirely on the army to attack Nanjing City, attacking Nanjing from three directions: Zhenjiang, Jurong, and Lishui.

The Japanese army attacking from Zhenjiang encountered an ambush in the area on the east bank of Jiuxiang River, which will become the Xianlin Campus of Nanjing University in the future, and opposite is the future Yangshan Park.

The straight-line distance from here to Purple Mountain is less than 20 kilometers. As long as the Japanese army crosses the river, they will be entertained by the Purple Mountain artillery positions.

If the Purple Mountain artillery position is forced to fire, the shells can reach the other side of the river, but it is very close to the limit of effective range because players have deployed B4 and ML-20 howitzers on Purple Mountain.

Both were produced in the Soviet Union. The former has a caliber of 203 and the latter has a caliber of 152. Both are heavy artillery grade.

Field artillery is deployed near the front line or directly on the front line. With the game mechanism as a support, players have no problem with various supplies. Those who can recruit local people to form class combat units have also recruited their own NPC officers. Together with the NPC officers provided by the system, the entire city of Nanjing is being integrated at an unimaginable speed and turned into a huge rock, blocking the Japanese army's route to the south.

No matter how the Japanese develop in the future, they must control Beijing in the north and Nanjing in the south. These two places are the richest areas in China's first tier, with developed transportation and important strategic locations. Once Nanjing becomes an unconquerable city that they cannot take, the entire strategy of invading China will suffer a devastating blow.

This would make them lose half of their qualifications to compete with "On Protracted War".

By then, various resistance forces in the Japanese-occupied areas will surge and become a quagmire and nightmare for the Japanese army.

Therefore, the Japanese military headquarters also tried its best to mobilize various elite troops and advanced weapons in order to break into the city of Nanjing at all costs.

As the sounds of cannons and gunfire rang out near Jiuxiang River, the Battle of Nanjing officially began.

Chapter 20: Battle of Nanjing

(Seeking barrage support!)

At the beginning of the battle, the players encountered a very unfamiliar situation. Most of the newly recruited Kuomintang soldiers were insufficiently trained and had limited individual attack range.

The Japanese Infantry Drill Manual mandated intensive live-fire training for new recruits: no fewer than 150 rifle rounds per month and no fewer than 300 machine gun rounds per month, for a total of 1800 rounds per year. Soldiers were also required to fire at ambush targets at a distance of 300 meters, with at least three of their five rounds concentrated within a fist-sized area. This was followed by mobile firing drills within tactical settings. This wasn't an exaggeration; it was truly adhered to, and even practiced in actual combat. This is what veterans called "the Japanese's bullets chased and bit."

In close combat, Japanese recruits underwent 45 days of specialized bayonet training, emphasizing speed and attacking vital points. The Type 38 rifle, with a bayonet attached, reached a total length of approximately 166.3 cm, making it comparable to a short spear. This far surpassed the broadswords or short bayonets of our soldiers, creating a "one inch longer, one inch stronger" suppression effect. During the Battle of Pingxingguan, three Japanese soldiers, back-to-back in bayonet combat, could hold their own against an entire squad of the Eighth Army. Even when out of ammunition and food, they continued to counterattack with bayonets, making it difficult for the Eighth Army to capture wounded soldiers. While the Japanese were merely logistics personnel at the time, they nonetheless possessed considerable training.

In addition to the above, the average knowledge level of the Japanese army is also higher than ours. Soldiers with high knowledge levels have advantages that illiterate soldiers absolutely do not have. They learn and accept equipment faster. Compared with the national army, their tactical thinking is more flexible, and they have a complete logistics system. There is also a complete training mechanism in the country.

This is very important, especially for soldiers to be able to eat enough. Modern research has proved that long-term hunger will affect brain development. Why do poor people look stupid? In addition to acquired things such as vision and learning, the lack of nutrition in the mother's womb is also a big problem. The human brain consumes a lot of energy.

War is ultimately a battle between people. If people are not good, many things will not be good either. A strong will can indeed make up for part of the problem, but when the collision really comes, the gap will immediately become apparent.

"No, I can't be suppressed like this."

Player "Anna" is extremely anxious about the current situation.

The Japanese troops on the front line dared to shoot from a distance of one or two hundred meters, and they shot very accurately. This was machine aiming, without any scope. In reality, just pick someone and use your thumb to measure it. Not to mention a hundred meters, even fifty meters away would be a very small target. In this battlefield environment, as long as the advancing Japanese soldiers fired, there was a high probability that one of the newly recruited Kuomintang soldiers on the Volunteer Army's side would fall. Due to the trench shooting, the bullet positions were all above the chest, and there was a high probability that they would die directly.

"They have guns, we have cannons, let's just use the cannons!"

The player "Quantum Girl" pointed to the 37mm anti-tank gun next to her.

Not only anti-tank guns, but also mortars and field guns. The greatest value of the player's front-line position is that he can provide a steady stream of various supplies, so the player does not care about the loss of NPC officers and weapons and equipment.

On a normal battlefield, exposing the firepower point so easily is a suicidal act, but it doesn’t matter to the players, as long as they can kill the Japanese, they will make a profit.

Then a scene appeared that the former Kuomintang soldiers could not understand. Their superiors actually operated the weapons themselves and resolutely opened fire at the Japanese while everyone else was in panic and hiding.

This volunteer army is indeed different from the national army.

But when they mustered up the courage, the officers immediately kicked them back.

"Go back. Can you hit the Japanese soldiers who are hundreds of meters away? Just wait for orders."

This is really out of line. The officer takes care of the soldiers and doesn't let them die in vain, but he himself takes the lead in the front line of the position.

"Sir, I'm a good shot, I can do it!"

"Okay, wait for my order and stand by."

For players, this kind of accurate shooter is the SSR in the team. It doesn't matter if they and the NPC commander die, but these SSRs with only one life must be cherished. When the time comes, recruit them under your command and let others see your blinding gold card brigade, hehe.

After coming under artillery attack, the advancing Japanese army immediately called for artillery fire from the rear, which quickly overturned the front-line positions of the Volunteer Army. Even the firepower of the Japanese light field artillery was quite terrifying when concentrated.

But the Japanese army also exposed the location of their own artillery positions, and not long after, Brahmin players appeared in the sky.

"Finally, I have a chance to get some fries!"

I'm not Wang Wu, who is screaming with excitement. This time he is flying a Stuka dive bomber.

A classic frontline bomber from World War II, it is characterized by its shrieking sound and nearly ninety-degree dive bombing. It is highly accurate and can carry out targeted bombing of enemy targets, but this extremely difficult operation means that ordinary people cannot play it.

It is very suitable for players. If they make a mistake in operation, they will just crash into it like a bomb. It's no big deal.

"Stuka, absolutely, that sound is the Stuka. Why do they (the Volunteer Army) have Stukas?!"

Inside the German Embassy, ​​the military attaché who heard the familiar voice felt that the world had suddenly gone crazy and became something he did not recognize.

First there was the recently launched Panzer IV, and now the Stuka. These are both cutting-edge German equipment, and the Chinese army didn't have many of them. So why did the Chinese People's Volunteer Army have them? Was there some kind of secret deal between the government and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army?

If so, how will Japan explain it?

Now it's set up, you know, and one stubborn thing has become blocked at both ends.

However, the Volunteer Army would not answer this question. Even if they asked, how they would answer would depend on the player's mood. At most, they would just say "military secrets". If they asked again, they would be beheaded.