The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

This means that players can control more resources and have more tricks to do on the battlefield, but conscripts only have one life, so players cherish them very much. When adopting tactics, they will let NPC officers go first, and only send out the reserve troops if all else fails.

For the soldiers who jumped over from the National Army, this means that the officers lead by example, are brave and fearless, and take the lead in the charge. Moreover, these officers, oh, you should call them commanders, these commanders take good care of themselves on weekdays. If they have difficulties, they can be found to solve them on the spot. If they cannot solve the problems, they will give fair results. Therefore, they are very popular with them.

In this case, as soon as the player or other NPC commanders move, the other soldiers will rush forward roaring.

In the eyes of the enemy, this means that the volunteers are all brave and good at fighting, and are not afraid of life and death. In addition, the Japanese army has suffered a series of defeats against the volunteers, and now the Japanese headquarters has accepted the setting that they can tactically retreat when encountering the volunteers.

Even if you can escape from the Volunteer Army's encirclement with most of your men relatively intact, other Japanese troops will give you a thumbs up, saying that you are really great for being able to escape from those ghosts and gods.

The Japanese army could naturally feel that the Volunteer Army was accumulating strength. They were different from the useless Kuomintang army. They really wanted to drive them into the sea, but they would not be happy to confront them just because they did not attack. The Volunteer Army's fighting was only offensive and more fierce offensive. If they did not take action now, they would definitely be holding back for a big event.

Therefore, the elite Japanese troops near Shanghai dared not move. As for Xuzhou, we can only hope that the troops heading south can solve the problem on their own. Then we can attack the Volunteer Army from two directions, and perhaps the situation can still be negotiated.

With this idea in mind, the Japanese military headquarters, which had already realized that it was impossible to stop the war of aggression against China, soon turned its attention to Xuzhou.

Commander Li of the New Guangxi Clique is about to have his moment of glory in Taierzhuang...?

Section 35: Our Imperial Army advances smoothly, while the Volunteer Army pursues them in a panic

(I have something to do today, ε=(?ο｀*))) Alas, but I will still update. This is the first update. I'll see if I can squeeze out some time later.)

Xuzhou is located at the intersection of the Jinpu Railway (Tianjin-Pukou) and the Longhai Railway (Lianyungang-Lanzhou). It is a core transportation hub connecting North China, East China and Central China, and its geographical location is very important.

Historically, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and Jinan in 1937, they urgently needed to control Xuzhou to connect the Jinpu Line, realize the military linkage between the occupied areas of North China and Central China, and form a pincer attack from the north and the south.

The Japanese army started this battle in January 1938, but the situation in this parallel world forced the Japanese army to be unable to take action according to the established goals, nor could they form an effective pincer attack from the north and the south, because Nanjing was in the hands of the Volunteer Army. If they dared to go north at this time, they would be exposing their backs to the guns of the Volunteer Army.

Anyone with a little military knowledge and who can read a map knows how dangerous this is. If things go wrong, the pincer attack from the north and the south will turn into the north saving the south. At that time, the results of the July 7 Incident of the Japanese army will be completely stopped in Beijing, which is unacceptable to the Japanese headquarters.

Risking the collapse of the domestic economy and facing the pressure of all-out war, if the Japanese army cannot obtain enough resources on the mainland to return to its homeland, it will fall into a quagmire of an unsustainable war and then collapse.

This situation is actually the same as the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. As long as Manqing can hold on for another month or so, they can definitely win, and their situation at that time can definitely last for more than half a year, but they still surrendered and lived a fatter life.

So at this time, the Japanese military headquarters was also carrying out the Xuzhou Campaign with the same idea.

Desire is like a falling rock; once it starts rolling, it cannot be stopped.

From the Meiji Restoration to the present, Japan has won all its bets. With such a series of victories, everyone would become inflated and feel that it is their destiny and that it is time to replace their former teacher and become the new Asian empire.

As an island nation, Japan was doomed to have no turning back from the day it chose militaristic armed plunder.

Despite the heavy losses, the war had to continue, so the Japanese army's propaganda to the country was still to win, a big win.

The Imperial Army's Divine Power Crushes the Red Tide, Completing the Strategic Shift in the Nanjing Key Area

That’s right, this is the title of Japan’s Greater East Asia War Report, which gives people a funny feeling of “I was afraid of beating you to death, so I mercifully didn’t use my full strength.”

The content is even more difficult to understand.

Imperial Army and Navy War Report: In the Greater East Asia Holy War unfolding around Nanjing, our army, with a desperate fighting spirit, inflicted heavy damage on the main force of the International Red Devils. Although the enemy's covert deployment of armored groups and surprise air attacks forced the Imperial Army to shift its strategy to maintain strategic initiative, this campaign achieved its goal of depleting the enemy's effective forces, creating the conditions for a decisive victory in the Battle of Xuzhou.

Next is the battle report, please watch the VCR!

Our Imperial Army annihilated 300,000 international volunteer troops and defeated more than 700,000 Chinese troops.

Five hundred tanks of various types and more than a thousand aircraft of various types were destroyed.

Thirteen enemy secret ammunition depots were destroyed, and the enemy lost more than 13 artillery pieces.

There are also empty interviews, such as the one below.

"I witnessed with my own eyes the cowardice of the Red Devil soldiers in the face of bayonet charges. These foreign mercenaries could only hide behind tanks and secretly fire. When Miyamoto's squadron launched a boarding assault, they actually abandoned their weapons and fled to Purple Mountain in an organized manner!" - Corporal Goro Yamada of the 36th Infantry Regiment

Liu Qi naturally wanted to share such great fun with the players, so the players quickly saw the reaction from the Japanese side through the game interface, especially the report that had almost no real content except for the traditional Chinese characters.

"We have 500 tanks?" Xiao Te looked at Liuqi, who was eating melon seeds beside him, in confusion.

Liuqi shrugged and said casually, "Including armored vehicles and cars, there must be more than 500. I guess the Japanese soldiers' eyesight is not very good and they made a mistake."

"But we certainly didn't lose a thousand planes."

"Maybe the Japs included their own lost planes in the calculation."

"We have a secret ammunition depot?"

"This must have come from the imagination of Japanese journalists."

"How many guns have we lost?"

"The losses were mostly frontline field artillery and mortars, about thirty pieces."

"Pfft!" Xiao Te couldn't help laughing.

Her response was considered quite tactful, as the other players laughed even more arrogantly.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha, this is truly a classic interview, cough cough cough, Yamada, look, look."

The player Diandang was laughing so hard that his heart was about to spin like crazy, because the Yamada Goro interviewed in the newspaper happened to be one of the Japanese prisoners captured by the volunteers, and he surrendered very smoothly.

At that time, Diana's plane was shot down, but he was not dead. So he gave himself an injection after landing, and then began to look for a new target, and then met Goro Yamada who was alone.

Seeing the crazy guy, Yamada Goro immediately raised the Type 38 rifle in his hand, but the crazy guy rushed over without saying a word, excited as if he wanted to give the other party the ultimate insult, and then Yamada Goro decisively surrendered.

One reason was that there were no bullets in his gun, and the action just now was just a threat. The second reason was that Zhenjiang had been controlled by the Volunteer Army, and the Japanese army was collapsing on a large scale. There were many people who ran away. Goro Yamada, who was from Osaka, naturally did not want to lose his life in such a situation.

After reading this, many people will surely think of the rumor of "Osaka Army, the Loser Army".

Yes, this article is indeed a complete lie. The Osaka Division's combat effectiveness was not bad. It inflicted heavy damage on the Nationalist Army's elite in the Battle of Southern Henan and the Battle of Han River. In the Second Battle of Changsha, it was the main attacking force that broke through the defenses and was the first to enter Changsha. You say that this level of combat effectiveness is cowardly. Then what is the Nationalist Army? Unrecyclable garbage?

It seems to be true, especially in the middle and upper levels. It is recommended to supplement copper directly at the shooting range.

The reason why the Osaka Division was stigmatized was actually due to the characteristics of their corps.

The Osaka Division's troops were primarily drawn from Osaka, Japan's commercial center. Most of the soldiers came from merchant backgrounds and generally had a higher level of education than other divisions. This led them to prioritize strategy over blind charging, emphasizing tactics like reconnaissance and attrition. However, this pragmatism ran counter to the "Bushido spirit" championed by the Japanese military, and was incompatible with the Showa Army, which valued "dying with honor."

To put it bluntly, what the Japanese commander wanted was a group of beasts, a group of beasts that would absolutely obey orders. The soldiers in the army did not need to have any extra thoughts. After all, thinking too much would easily breed heresy, especially under the high-pressure rule of the Japanese fascist government. The smarter people were, the more likely they were to turn red.

Faced with such a group of potential red elements and guys who would bargain with officers on the battlefield, it is impossible for militarists to like them. Even if they are really useful at times, they still have to be criticized and criticized.

But to be fair, such opponents are the truly dangerous enemies. Fortunately, there are the fewest normal people in the Japanese headquarters.

Although the identity of the Osaka Division is very unpopular among the Japanese army, players think that these are relatively normal Japanese, and the rest can only be called devils. In the eighteen levels of hell, the Osaka Division can be relatively in the upper middle level, while the remaining devils can only be dug a mass grave for them in the basement of the nineteenth level.

Players are still very willing to communicate with the Japanese soldiers who want to communicate. They are mainly curious about why these people fight so hard. The fascist government gives you a few dollars. Is it worth it?

Yamada Goro is one of the Japanese who is willing to communicate normally, and he also complains about many decisions of the Japanese government crazily, and even scolds along with the players. As a result, he has a very special status in the Volunteer Army's prisoner-of-war camp. For example, now, after the Diandian got the Japanese newspaper, he immediately came to share the fun with him.

Goro Yamada, who was the subject of the sharing, was embarrassed, but he also gained a new understanding of the inhumanity of his own government.

Damn, I was in a volunteer army prisoner-of-war camp, how did you interview me? Why have I never seen such brave Japanese reporters? It’s really bullshit!

It is worth mentioning that Japanese domestic newspapers would not appear on the Japanese front lines, because the Japanese military who did so knew very well that many of the contents in them were fabricated, and if they were passed back to the front lines, they would disrupt the morale of the troops.

But it doesn’t matter. The players quickly printed a large number of Japanese newspapers and sent them to the Japanese devils soon.

Chapter 36: Damn, this is a conspiracy of the Volunteer Army!

(Second update, I almost went to the ACG world today, damn, but I got two days of rest because of it. Now I’m terrified just thinking about it. No, I can’t think about it, I have to write some words quickly to distract myself, hehehehe ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!)

Japanese militarist propaganda during World War II is the most hilariously abstract and bizarre "demon metamorphosis" in human history. While staging a "Sino-Japanese Friendship Studio" in the style of Ukiyo-e in Nanjing, with executioners stroking the heads of weeping Chinese children and pretending to be saints, they then implemented the "Three Alls" policy in North China, a real-life version of "Battle Royale." While boasting about the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," they transformed Southeast Asian railways into mass graves with double-digit manpower losses per kilometer. Even their toilet renovations became performance art to cover up Unit 731's human experiments. Even Hannibal Lecter would say, "I'm such a badass with the Japs!"

If you think this is the limit, then the Japanese have even more tricks up their sleeves - they missed something.

The pinnacle of this aspect was the explosive operation of the Japanese Imperial Headquarters to recruit nuclear staff. In 1945, Germany was almost hardened, but Japan still promoted the invincibility of the Imperial Kingdom, adding a filter of fighting the whole world in its propaganda. Considering that there was no photo-editing software and self-media at that time, many Japanese firmly believed that this was true, and then on the day of defeat, their three views collapsed, and they became pathetic but not worthy of pity walking corpses.

Everyone knows about the famous Battle of Iwo Jima. The Japanese, despite having no advantages in land, sea, or air, achieved a very good casualty ratio by relying on digging holes in the ground. However, few people know that the Japanese army had supply problems in the later stages of the battle. In addition, the positions were divided, and the surface was occupied and controlled by the US military. As a result, many Japanese soldiers had begun to cling to their comrades' thighs and chew them like Michelin. Even so, it was still promoted as "The American beasts were unable to advance, and our Imperial Army won a great victory." This perspective of interpreting history allowed future generations to witness the new heights of militarism and constantly refresh the bottom line of human nature.

In contrast, the forced conscription of 20 comfort women while suppressing the Imperial Army's image as a "chaste warrior" (ugh~), glorifying the Bataan Death March as a joyful "marathon team building" between prisoners of war and Japanese soldiers, and using human bacterial experiments to tout the "scientific research spirit" have all become "normal phenomena" that prevent the Japanese army from making the top five in the abstract propaganda competition.

Therefore, the Japanese troops on the front line and the civilians in the rear had no idea what their country was doing. They only knew what the government wanted them to know, and this concept was constantly being reinforced.

But the price is that sometimes, the Japanese top leaders themselves believed this outrageous propaganda content, thinking that they were just moving from one victory to another, and the failures in between were just short-term convulsions. Turn around, turn around, you know!

The result of deceiving even yourself is to be blinded by reality. Once someone breaks this cognitive filter, there will be a situation where the bottom level will reconcile, the middle level will be shocked, and the upper level will panic, especially when facing a powerful enemy that the Japanese army cannot defeat.

If you don't believe it, just look at the Japanese in the past. When they saw the great country of Central China, they reflected deeply. How could my father be wrong? It must be that I was not filial enough. I must be more filial.

Now that we understand what the Japanese government is doing, it is necessary for the volunteer army players to help them re-understand this real world. When it comes to public opinion warfare, players living in the 21st century have seen too much, but those are just unorthodox methods. Lies will always be exposed, but the truth can cause real damage.

So players started collecting offline information about what the Japanese army did during World War II. Of course, they had to pay attention to the timeline, otherwise it would become fake news.

"Everyone, get ready. We'll throw these to the Japanese later."

Players who have prepared a large amount of newspapers are ready to bombard the Japanese with their three views and see what they think about Zhuan Jin Ru Feng in their own newspapers. They hope that their thoughts will not be too stimulating.

After completing the preparations, one Stuka after another took off quickly and flew towards Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai and other places.

Murakami is an ordinary private first class, but his current identity is not ordinary because he is a survivor of the 6th Division.

As one of the first Japanese soldiers to experience the terrifying combat power of the Volunteer Army, Murakami would break out in cold sweat every time he thought of the battlefield surrounded by flames. Even though he knew he was safe now, he still woke up from the nightmare in fear.

He was considered a veteran in the 6th Division that was being reorganized. In the Japanese army, people with seniority could bully those without seniority at will, but Murakami felt that this was meaningless. What kind of ability was it to bully one's own people? When the volunteers came, they would all be killed in one fell swoop. If he was a little nicer to the new recruits on weekdays, maybe he could let them cover his retreat at a critical moment.

Although he felt that his life was hanging by a thread around the Yasukuni Shrine, Murakami still had a desire to survive, because he wanted to win battles, establish merit, and make money for his family from the battlefield in China. His younger brother had good academic performance and could become a pillar of society with more abilities than himself in the future, so he hoped that his younger brother could become a college student.

The only pity is that I will probably not see that day, but as long as my pension can allow my family to live a good life, it doesn’t matter.

"Enemy plane!"

The screams coming from the side made Murakami hide in a nearby air-raid shelter at lightning speed.

In the past, it was the National Army soldiers who did this, but since the Japanese army failed to attack Nanjing and suffered heavy losses in aircraft and pilots, the sky has become a stage for the Volunteer Army's aircraft. Those terrifying monsters with shrill screams during dive bombing can always carry heavy bombs to clear out the Japanese troops in one area after another.

Almost all Japanese veterans know that when you hear that voice ringing right above your head, you should stand up and wait for death. At least you can die quickly and there is no way to avoid it.

Facing the swooping death, prayer is the only thing to do.

The Japanese anti-aircraft guns began to roar, but soon became silent. The pilots of the Volunteer Army were not afraid of death and were very willing to trade their lives with the Japs, even for the exchange of planes for anti-aircraft guns. Therefore, most of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units that opened fire during the bombing would basically be killed. For example, the anti-aircraft artillery position closest to Murakami at this time had been replaced three times, and the newest anti-aircraft artillery position was built in a bomb crater.

With a loud bang, the sound of nearby anti-aircraft gun fire disappeared. Murakami knew that the enemy was gone. If they were a little more decent, they would be buried with their body parts, but it was normal for no bones to be left. The terrifying heavy bombs could easily tear apart an anti-aircraft gun group.

But what happened next was a bit strange. There were no more explosions.

According to Murakami's observations during this period, whenever the volunteers launched an air raid, it would take at least several hours, and they might even suddenly strike back after a few hours of bombing. Their planes seemed to always have sufficient supplies, and they did not need to worry about ammunition and fuel. The Japanese troops on the ground were like pathetic targets, and could only be admired at will.

Why is the time so short this time?

Driven by curiosity, Murakami peeked out of the air-raid shelter and was attracted by a newspaper.

No, not just one newspaper, but many, many newspapers, everywhere.

Murakami picked up a newspaper and started reading, but before he had read three lines, his blood pressure began to soar.

Judging from the format and style, this is a definite domestic newspaper. Although I don't know how the volunteer army got so many Japanese domestic newspapers, as a Japanese soldier, it is still easy to judge the authenticity of the content above.

Not only Murakami was watching, but more and more Japanese soldiers were also watching. At first they were curious, but after getting their hands on it, they couldn't take their eyes off it.

"What's written on it?"

"Katsu ったって? マジでいつ胜ったんですかよー?" (We won? When did we win?)

"これ、マジで何书いてんの?" (What does this TM say?)

"Domestic のゴミクズどもが、こんなふうに国产をだまし続けてきたってことか!?" (Is this how those domestic insects deceive the people!?)

Anger, depression, dissatisfaction, ridicule, all kinds of negative emotions soon filled the Japanese troops who received the newspaper.

The Japanese commander and military police reacted very quickly and immediately began to confiscate the newspapers.

"What are you doing! Hands are holding hands!" (What are you doing! Hand over what you have in your hands!)

Under the scolding of the officers and military police, the soldiers obediently handed over the things in their hands, but some things would not disappear with the newspapers they handed over.

Because people have divergent thinking, especially after discovering that they have been deceived.

Imagine that, with such deceptive reporting being conducted domestically, would they use the same methods on the soldiers on the front lines? Or would they simply let the soldiers see what they wanted to see?

Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they can only be eradicated by the truth.

The question is, will the Japanese government, which is so unkind both internally and externally, come up with effective means to eradicate the disease?

Some middle and lower-level Japanese officers noticed the discontent that was beginning to emerge in the army, but their influence in the Japanese command system was limited. In any case, the senior Japanese commanders did not care. Even if they did care, they were only worried about whether it would affect their own command. Nothing else mattered.

People who think that "one general's success means thousands of soldiers' sacrifice" will naturally behave like unhuman beings.

Therefore, the Japanese army only confiscated those newspapers and carried out a "three-binde-ge" style of friendly education to the Japanese soldiers who secretly kept the newspapers, but there was no further action, as if as long as this matter did not appear in front of me, it would not have happened, highlighting an idealistic solution.

As for the internal problems, they were all conspiracies of the Volunteer Army. All we had to do was eliminate the Volunteer Army.

Unfortunately, they did not have this opportunity, because the newly built broad-gauge railway of the Volunteer Army was rapidly advancing towards Shanghai, followed by an armored train towing K5 and a behemoth that would never appear here under normal circumstances.

Section 37: The truth is within the range of the cannon