I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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The high-ranking members of the national army have to be happy, because the war between Japan and the Soviet Union is too beneficial to China. Although there are deeper and more complicated meanings in politics and diplomacy, at the very least, the national army can eliminate two There are major hidden dangers: first, Japan and the Soviet Union secretly colluded and jointly invaded China; second, the Soviet army is preparing to attack China and only China.

The former is a disaster for China, while the latter will put China at a huge disadvantage and passiveness in Sino-Japanese relations.

Right now, Japan and the Soviet Union are fighting, completely overturning these two speculations that made the high level of the national army deeply disturbed. How can the high level of the national army feel relieved and happy?The Japanese and the Soviets "dog eats dog", the Chinese have no reason to be unhappy.

In Jiang Weiguo's words, "It's completely possible to celebrate with drums, gongs and drums."

In the Nanjing Army Headquarters, besides the generals of the Nanjing Army, there were more than a dozen middle-level German military officers with blond hair and blue eyes. They were members of the German military delegation to China. People will not pass on their military information to the Chinese army.

Through the channels of the Germans, the Nanjing military is still very clear about what happened on the Japanese-Soviet frontline battlefield more than 1000 kilometers away. After all, there are German observers in the Japanese army, and the Japanese will not hide the facts from the Germans.

"The Soviet army that has crossed the Manchurian-Mongolian border and invaded the Northeast is the 57th Army. The number of the currently confirmed Soviet troops participating in the war includes 4 mechanized infantry brigades, 5 motorized infantry divisions, 4 armored brigades, and 3 tank brigades , 4 cavalry divisions, etc. It is conservatively estimated that more than 10 Soviet troops participated in the war, and follow-up troops are constantly arriving. It is estimated that their follow-up troops will not be less than 10.

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"The puppet Mongolian army that participated in the war with the Soviet army and invaded the northeast has confirmed that there are 6th and 8th puppet cavalry divisions.

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"The Soviet army dispatched a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars on the battlefield, and the number of tanks was no less than 500.

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"The Soviet Far East Air Force has also been dispatched, and more than 350 aircraft have participated in the battle.

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"The artillery fire of the Soviet army was very fierce, and there were two or three hundred artillery pieces that were bombarding the Japanese positions fiercely.

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"One cavalry brigade and one infantry brigade of the puppet Manchurian army in Nomonhan have been repelled, with more than 1 casualties. The Soviet and Mongolian troops are continuing to advance. The Japanese Manchurian army has retreated from the Nomonhan area to the New Barhu Left Banner. , New Balhu Right Banner, the two sides are fighting fiercely, and the Japanese Manchurian troops stationed in Manzhouli and Hulunbuir are reinforcing.

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"Soviet planes bombed Manzhouli and Hulun Buir, and Japanese and Soviet planes were engaged in fierce air battles.

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Jiang Weiguo listened carefully. He was no longer happy. It was not that the situation was not good for China, but that he had regained his seriousness and solemnity. After all, being happy was the state of mind at the beginning.

"Which Japanese army is fighting the Soviet army?" Jiang Weiguo asked Xiao Yao beside him.

"The 4th Division!" Xiao Yao replied.

The Japanese army in the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang had 5 divisions in total. Among them, the 4th and 2nd Divisions were stationed in Heilongjiang Province, the 6th Division was stationed in Jilin Province, and the 9th and 18th Divisions were stationed in Liaoning Province.

Jiang Weiguo nodded, and asked again: "Is the battle still going on?"

Xiao Yao nodded: "Still fighting!" He looked at the wall clock on the wall, "The battle started at four o'clock in the morning, and it is now two o'clock in the afternoon, and the fierce battle at Nuomenhan has lasted for a full ten hours! "

Jiang Weiguo was silent for a while, and then asked Xiao Yao: "The old man is coming aggressively. It seems that he has planned to invest so many tanks, planes and cannons all at once. Do you think the little devil can handle it?"

Xiao Yao repeatedly browsed through the thick frontline battle report documents in his hand, concentrating on his thoughts.

This process is a test of a high-level commanding officer's information screening, information induction, analysis, and judgment capabilities. It must be right. For example, in the ongoing battle of Nomonhan, the Japanese army may have been vague to the German observers. After all, the German observers cannot overlook the overall situation of the battlefield from the cloud. What they saw, heard, and collected battlefield information It is also seeing the leopard through the tube or even the blind man feeling the elephant, and there is a big error.

In war movies of later generations, such a scene often appears: Our military commanders make a major decision on a war based on the intelligence collected by a scout who bravely sneaked into the enemy's position.

This is false. It is impossible for a real army commander to do such a hasty and risky thing. A scout is too small to see the overall situation of the battlefield. The information he gets on the battlefield is very limited. Even It is simply wrong, the commander cannot make a major decision based on the intelligence provided by a scout.

What the commander needs to do is what Xiao Yao is doing at this time. He filters, refines, and gathers the vast, confusing, and complicated battlefield information in his mind, and draws the final conclusion, which greatly tests the commander's ability.

"The Japanese army can hold it for a while, but they can't hold it for a long time, and the Japanese army can only hold it partially. The Soviet army has already launched a large-scale roundabout and outflanking!" After thinking for 5 minutes, Xiao Yao gave his answer, "I guess, The Japanese army may have a brigade or so of troops surrounded by the Soviet army on the front line of Nomonhan. Substantial progress has been made, so it can be seen that the Soviet army is suppressing the Japanese army as a whole, and the two sides are actually evenly divided in the local area!"

"Interesting, really interesting!" Jiang Weiguo laughed, Xiao Yao couldn't understand his smile.

Jiang Weiguo felt that two things were "really interesting". One was that the Japanese army was not overwhelmed by the Soviet army, and the other was that the famous 4th Division of the Japanese Army did not collapse at the first touch. Accident.

The Far East Battle that broke out on August 1939, 8 took place in the Nomonhan area on the border between Manchuria and Mongolia. The "historical timing" is also very similar. Jiang Weiguo has no doubt that this Far East campaign was caused by the "butterfly effect" of the original historical Nomonhan campaign, but there are fundamental differences. The first is the scale, which has doubled the scale. The second is the motivation for war, which is completely different.

In later generations, anyone who is familiar with the history of the Anti-Japanese War and World War II will know the "Nuomenhan Battle" and the "4th Division of the Japanese Army" because these two things are "very interesting".

Regarding the Battle of Nuomenhan, there has been a long-standing saying: In this battle, the Soviet army beat the Japanese army on one side, and with only a loss of 6000 people, they destroyed Laku and wiped out 3000 Japanese troops like a plow. There are many accounts of the losses of the two armies, but without exception, there is a huge disparity. The Soviet army suffered thousands of casualties, while the Japanese army suffered tens of thousands of casualties. The casualties of the Soviet army were less than [-]). The reason why they say this is that the truth is covered up, and the Soviet authorities seal up the files. The publicity will definitely greatly reduce the casualties of the Soviet army and greatly increase the casualties of the Japanese army until After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a large number of archives were declassified, and the truth was released to the world. Before the Soviet archives were declassified, Japanese archives were public, but the Chinese certainly did not believe Japan’s unilateral archives. Self-boasting; second, due to some special domestic reasons, it is necessary to boast and exaggerate the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, ridicule and belittle the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and even some people with ulterior motives use this to slander, vilify, and discredit the Chinese army in the War of Resistance.

The actual situation of the Battle of Nuomenhan was that the Soviet army won miserably. The Soviet army retreated when they saw a good situation. The Japanese army also took advantage of the slope to go down the donkey. 9700 people were injured, and about 15000 were injured. Judging from the number of casualties, the Japanese army is not considered a failure, and the Soviet army spent more ammunition and lost equipment in this battle than the Japanese army.

Objectively speaking, the Soviet army barely won on the battlefield by relying on the strong national strength of the Soviet Union far surpassing that of Japan.

It is also worth mentioning that the Soviet army that participated in the Battle of Nomonhan was an elite mechanized army, and the Japanese army that participated in the battle was the second-rate 23rd Division. Attacking the Chinese army is not easy and is even more remarkable.

If the Chinese army during the Anti-Japanese War did not have those internal shortcomings, the Chinese army would also be very strong.

As for the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, there is also a widely circulated saying about the division: the division is quite incompetent, known as "the first useless division of the imperial army".

This statement is also false. The 4th Division has a strong combat effectiveness, and compared with other Japanese divisions that only know how to fight hard, this division has a more stable fighting style and more flexible fighting methods, and it is by no means a wimp.

Right now, the Far East War broke out, and the first fierce battle was at Nomenkan. The long-planned, well-prepared, and powerful Soviet army suddenly attacked the Japanese army. Not beaten.

After the flames of war were suddenly ignited, the top leaders of China, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union were all alarmed, and the United States, Britain, France, Italy and other countries also turned their surprised, uneasy, and anxious eyes to the Far East.

In Wuhan, Tokyo, Berlin, and Moscow, diplomatic officials, military attaches stationed abroad, and special envoys from different countries have carried out close activities like crucian carp crossing the river.

In the headquarters of the Nanjing Army in Beiping, the senior officials of the Nanjing Army held their breath and watched closely the situation of the war between Japan and the Soviet Union.

When it was dark, a new round of battlefield information was continuously sent by German personnel:

"The 4th Brigade of the 7th Division of the Japanese Army was encircled by the Soviet Army on the field between Manzhouli and Hulunbuir!"

"The 4th Regiment of the 32nd Brigade of the 70th Division of the Japanese Army in Manzhouli is piercing the Soviet flank!"

"One part of the Soviet army surrounded the besieged Japanese army, one part marched towards Manchuria, and the other part marched towards Hulunbuir!"

"The casualties of the Japanese army were about 4000, and the casualties of the puppet Manchukuo army were about 5000. The casualties of the Soviet army should not be lower than the casualties of the Japanese army. The casualties of the puppet Mongolian army are unknown!"

"The Japanese army lost about 120 aircraft, and the Soviet army's loss of aircraft should not be lower than that of the Japanese army!"

"The 2rd Brigade of the 3nd Division of the Japanese Army has set off from Qiqihar to reinforce the 4th Division!"

"The Japanese army destroyed more than 100 Soviet tanks! They used large-scale Molotov cocktail attacks!"

Hearing this, the generals of the Nanjing Army at the scene exchanged glances with each other: The little devil is really smart, and he learned how we used to deal with their tanks to deal with the old Maozi tanks.

In front of the huge Northeast map, the staff officers are constantly updating the latest developments in the war situation.

"The Soviet army has the upper hand!" Huang Wei looked at the map. On the map, the red arrow representing the Soviet army was aggressively extending, and the yellow arrow representing the Japanese army was obviously squeezed into a ball.

"But the Soviet army seems to have lost a lot!" Chen Mingren took over the topic, "Although the Japanese army is suppressed, the cost is not small!"

"More than that!" Wang Yaowu added, "Old Maozi seems aggressive overall, but he doesn't seem to be progressing fast. From the looks of it, the little devil is indeed quite tenacious, forcibly resisting Lao Maozi on several local battlefields!"

Li Yutang said: "In my opinion, although the little devil was beaten in a hurry at the beginning, as long as he holds his ground, there is still a high possibility of resisting the whole line!"

"Not necessarily!" Song Xilian objected, "The Japanese army in the Northeast only has five divisions, and they have to use two to guard against us. The Japanese are not strong enough, but the Soviets have a steady stream of follow-up troops. Suppress the Japanese!"

The generals talked a lot.

Jiang Weiguo was thinking about the status of the Soviet Army and the Japanese Army in World War II.This question is very controversial.

However, Jiang Weiguo can basically draw conclusions based on his true understanding and the "Book of Heaven" that transcends history.

First of all, the Japanese Army (Japanese Army) has extremely strong individual combat effectiveness, which can be called first-class, and its tactics are also very good, but its equipment is backward, at least ten years behind the United States, Britain and Soviet Germany. At the same time, its strategy is very poor; secondly, the Soviet Army ( The Soviet Army), you can directly quote the famous US general Patton’s comment on the Soviet army in history: "a group of brave and sturdy mobs".

This comment seems to be contradictory, but in fact it hits the nail on the head. "Brave and sturdy" refers to the fact that the Soviet army will be unstoppable when it has an advantage in strength.

For details, please refer to the original history of the early days of the German-Soviet War. Facing the superior German army, the Soviet army was completely defeated. However, in the later period of the war, after the Soviet army took advantage, it began to attack the German army fiercely.

Comparing the casualties of the Soviet army and the Japanese army in the Battle of Nomonhan, the Soviet army killed and disappeared about 9700 people and injured about 15000 people, while the Japanese army killed and missing about 8400 people and injured about 8800 people. The number of wounded soldiers was [-] times that of the dead. This shows that the Japanese army on the battlefield was more tenacious than the Soviet army, and they fought to death after being injured, resulting in a low survival rate for wounded soldiers.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, a very unexpected new situation came from the frontline battlefield: the besieged Japanese army broke through.

"What?" The generals were all surprised, "The Japanese army broke through? How did they break through?"

"A tank regiment and a cavalry regiment of the Japanese army rushed into the Soviet encirclement and tore a gap, allowing the besieged Japanese infantry to break through!" A German observer reported, "A tank battle broke out between the Japanese army and the Soviet army. , the Japanese army won!"

"Ah?" Jiang Weiguo stared wide-eyed, "A tank battle broke out between the Japanese army and the Soviet army? The Japanese army won?"

"Well!" The German observer explained, "Some of the tanks are No. [-] and No. [-] that we aided the Japanese army, and the Japanese army used the [-] anti-aircraft guns we aided to them to flatten and bombard the Soviet tanks, destroying many Soviet tanks!"

"Damn it! You learned from us again!" Feng Zhian sighed.

"The Japanese army still has a tank unit?" Jiang Weiguo was even more surprised.

"En!" The German observer nodded, "Some divisions of the Japanese army have a tank wing under their jurisdiction. This is a new combat department after the Japanese Army's overall disarmament!"

As the German observer said, after the Japanese Army’s overall disarmament, only 12 divisions remained, and the number was greatly reduced. Therefore, the high-level Japanese army decided to “improve the quality” so that the overall combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army would not decline.

In addition, after the Sino-Japanese War, some senior leaders of the Japanese army learned from the failures, learned many specialties and advantages of the Chinese army (Nanjing Army), and also realized the importance of modern weapons such as tanks and submachine guns. Not only that, according to the alliance treaty, The Japanese army is going to transfer a large amount of weapons and equipment to the Chinese army. The Japanese have discounted this matter. There are indeed not a single rifle missing, but machine guns, grenades, mortars, and infantry guns are especially large-caliber. Heavy artillery was only transferred to the Chinese army. Although the number of the Japanese army decreased, the "density" of machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, infantry artillery, especially large-caliber heavy artillery increased greatly. As a result, the "firepower density" of the Japanese Army has risen.

At this time, there were 12 divisions of the Japanese army, each division had two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, and each infantry brigade had two infantry regiments under its jurisdiction. Artillery Wing, 2 Engineer Wing, 2 Supplies Wing, and newly added 1 Heavy Artillery Wing and 1 Chariot Wing.

However, because the number of heavy artillery and tanks (tanks) is not enough, not all 12 divisions have additional heavy artillery and tank units, but are equipped in batches, and 5 divisions of the Japanese army in the three northeastern provinces Because it is in the place where war is most likely to break out (either with the Soviet army or the Nanjing army), it has obtained priority equipment rights, and both have heavy artillery and tank teams, resulting in the Nomonhan battlefield at this time. However, although the overall strength of the Japanese army is not as good as that of the Soviet army, it does not suffer much in terms of artillery and tanks.

"Damn it! It's not a good thing that the little devil is getting stronger!" Jiang Weiguo felt a little haze in his heart.

"Brother!" Zhang Jizheng, Jiang Weiguo's tenth younger brother, trotted over in a hurry, leaned into Jiang Weiguo's ear and whispered, "Something happened over there in Wuhan!"

"What's the matter?" Jiang Weiguo was taken aback.

Zhang Jizheng said in a low voice: "The Soviet Union sent a special envoy to secretly propose to the chairman that the Chinese and Soviet armies join forces to attack the Japanese army together", saying that the Soviet Union would help China regain the Northeast.

The chairman asked you to go back to Wuhan immediately to attend a high-level meeting to discuss this matter!"

Jiang Weiguo's heart moved, and he immediately stood up: "Go! Prepare a plane for me, I want to go back to Wuhan!"

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Chapter 424 Nanjing Army at the end of 1939

The Nanjing Army, this army is the 11 German armed forces (3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th divisions, and the Central Military Academy) before the Nanjing Battle. Corps, Independent 2nd Supplementary Brigade, 918th Armored Regiment, 128th Mechanized Infantry Regiment; In addition, the 918th Regiment and 128th Regiment are the Tax Police Headquarters) to defend Nanjing's "China's strongest army" "[-] During the battle and after the battle, due to the continuous addition of new troops and multiple large-scale expansions, coupled with Jiang Weiguo's painstaking efforts, the Nanjing Army has grown larger and larger, forming a semi-independent It is the most important part of the Chinese Army and is directly under the command of Jiang Weiguo. Regardless of weapons and equipment, training, combat quality, fighting spirit, fighting will, combat effectiveness, morale, financial resources, or tactics The advanced level and military thinking... can be called "the first in the Chinese army".

By the end of 1939, the Nanjing Army had grown to 27 divisions, including 26 field divisions (about half of the troops were still under construction at this time) and 1 biochemical division (which was also the only biochemical division of the national army).

If all the construction is completed, the total strength of the regular army of the Nanjing Army will be as high as about 100 million.

Jiang Weiguo's direct descendant territory is mainly six provinces and one city in North China: Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Hebei Province, Suiyuan Province, Chahar Province, Rehe Province, and Beiping City. The above six provinces and one city are in the military area/ Three military regions/theatres were established in the theater plan, including: Fifth Military Region/Theatre: Shandong Province, Hebei Province, Beiping City; Second Military Region/Theatre: Shanxi Province, Suiyuan Province; Eighth Military Region/Theatre: Rehe Province, Chahar Province, so the bases of the Nanjing Army are basically the six provinces and one city in North China, and the three major military regions/theaters in North China.