Chapter 727 Night Attack
The route chosen by the Crows was extremely streamlined and safe, and they quietly lurked at the forefront of the Japanese army's positions. It must be said that the Crows' many battle experiences made them extremely familiar with the Japanese army.
They were even more familiar with the position than the Japanese themselves. They could find the blind spots and flaws in the position. Then they used some methods to quietly lead people to lurk only five hundred meters in front of the position.
Everyone was ordered not to move around and waited for the signal to attack. This made the newly recruited soldiers below very strange. Why didn't they charge when they were all in front of the position?!
Although they have just joined the National Defense Force, they have already felt the strict discipline. They must eat and drink as much as they can! However, they are not allowed to violate military discipline. In terms of military discipline, the veterans of the National Defense Force have already explained it to them after they put on their military uniforms.
Fortunately, Tu Qianjun's National Defense Force version of the Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention is very simple. Once you explain it to them and teach them, they can basically remember it by singing and singing. The treatment is also clearly explained. Food and drink do not count at twenty yuan per person per month.
This military pay shocked everyone, twenty yuan?! The highest military pay announced at this time was just over ten yuan per month, and it was normal to be deducted three or four yuan or even several months!
For example, the monthly salary of a second-class soldier in the Sichuan Army is six yuan and sixty cents, and a 20% discount is paid; the monthly salary of a second-class soldier in Guangdong is ten yuan and another five cents, or even no pay for a long time.
The worst thing is that the troops in Nanjing, except for some elites, only have ten yuan and zero cents a month, and they often go without payment for several months. This can explain why the strong men who cannot survive are forced to rob. In fact,
It's those officials who don't treat people as human beings at all.
These are not just words, they are all recorded on paper!
Theodore. His name is Whitehead, a famous American journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism. He has recorded these situations in his co-author with Jiana. Unfortunately, many people turn a blind eye or are unwilling to turn a blind eye to this historical material.
mentioned.
"Officers treat soldiers like animals
The Chinese officers treated the soldiers like animals. According to the whims of the officers, the soldiers could be tortured and killed. The methods of punishment included cutting off the ears and whipping."
"The U.S. military personnel in the training class felt disgusted and often saw soldiers being punished with their knees bent. They were kneeling on a playground with many stones, with their hands tied behind their backs, and were exposed to the scorching sun until they passed out.
Not only the officer’s personal servant, but also the officer’s wife and family members…”
"When the strong men who are still alive after training arrive in the frontline army, their situation is not much better than when they were recruited, because the squadron slowly starved to death on the battlefield."
"If you are lucky, the officer is honest, and everything is done according to the regulations, the Chinese soldier will eat rice and vegetables. His ration is twenty-four meters a day, but it is very insufficient. Food other than rice,
Occasionally there are some green beans, radishes and the like.”
"There are all kinds of diseases in the military, and the most common ones are those caused by starvation. Since their physiques have been corroded by poor food, insomnia, and years of frontline life, any infectious disease floating around can easily infect Chinese soldiers...
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"No one who has seen Chinese soldiers on the battlefield will doubt their bravery, but the commander's useless waste of their bravery makes the onlookers sad."
This is a polite statement, because Bai Xiude did not directly interview those soldiers. What he was able to observe and interview were only some training personnel sent by the United States to the training class.
But the accusations of the former Nanjing soldiers who later surrendered to Red Village are the most bloody memories.
"Soldiers were often made to kneel, starve, drink urine, eat feces, and eat phlegm, just because the commander wanted to have some fun. More than half of the ordinary soldiers were tortured. Some were shot and buried alive.
Many soldiers were sodomized by their officers, or their wives and daughters were raped by their officers. In order to deter them, deserters were often beheaded, disemboweled, etc...."
This is a record of nearly 200 historical witnesses interviewed when the 60th Army of the Kuomintang was reorganized into the 50th Army. Among them, 116 were former Nanjing officers and soldiers, including 2 at division level, 8 at regiment level, and 4 at battalion level.
, there were 19 company ranks, 83 soldiers, and 6 family members accompanying the army. These are the memories of most of them.
Listing some figures concisely can better explain the situation of the squadron than writing several large books.
In 1938, when the initial Japanese offensive ended, there were more than 4 million troops in all the troops. In the following six years, the Nanjing government recruited 1.5 million troops every year; by 1944, the army list
There should have been at least 12 million people in the world, but there were only 4 million left!
Four million people is still a polite term. Where did the other eight million people go? No one can know for sure. Even if according to the national calculation, 1.32 million people were killed in the entire Anti-Japanese War, then the remaining more than 500 people
Where are the ten thousand people?! These more than five million people simply disappeared without a trace. No one remembers them, no one commemorates them.
No one knows who they are, no one knows where they come from, and no one knows whether they are dead or alive...
"The young men had less food than the starving soldiers, and sometimes they could not even drink water. Many of them were stripped of their clothes and slept on the dirt floor. They were whipped: the bodies of the dead young men
It can be left there for a few days; in many areas, the number of strong men who can finally reach the front line is less than 20% of the total number of enlisted soldiers."
"When the horrific stories of the Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps in Europe came out, it was the time when China was recruiting soldiers. The doctors who worked in the young men camp in Chengdu were not aware of Germany's horrific methods.
What a surprise, they said, all the descriptions of the Nazi concentration camps were exactly the same as the young men’s camps where they worked.”
"A camp for young men near Chengdu was to accept 40,000 young men for training and enlistment, but many of them died on the way to the camp. Those who were able to survive until the end of the training ended up with only 8,000 men. It is said that there was another group of 1,000 men.
As many as 800 of the famous young men died due to the negligence of training officials..."
, Theodore H. White wrote this. Perhaps, this was the final outcome of those more than five million people. They did not die on the battlefield, they were just treated like livestock.
In fact, Stilwell, who was sent to Nanjing to guide the operations at the time, had a simple request: cleanse the headquarters of such selfishness, incompetence and corruption.
However, he touched the interests of too many people, and later Chiang Zhongzheng actually hated him to the core because this soldier exposed the shocking things in his army.
It is a pity that Chiang Zhongzheng did not understand Stilwell's painstaking efforts. In other words, in the eyes of Chiang Zhongzheng and others, the strong men are just pigs and dogs. They all died when they were dead, and no one would care. Then, in the Nanjing Imperial Palace after the Anti-Japanese War,
In the war with the Red Army, more than one million Nanjing troops surrendered to the Red Army...
"Swish, swish, swish... boom, boom, boom..." After waiting for a long time, the crazy rockets finally started to be launched! These positions have already been figured out by the crows, and all the coordinates are clearly marked!
The 107 Tiger Roar, with a range of more than 8.5 kilometers, launched a frantic bombardment against the Japanese positions! During World War II, someone calculated that the salvo of a Katyusha rocket vehicle was equivalent to the intensive firing of 18 self-propelled artillery.
Although the 107 Tiger Roar does not have the 16-round capacity of the Katyusha, its nine rockets are at least equivalent to the intensive firing of ten self-propelled artillery. One 107 is ten artillery pieces, and its power can be imagined.
Although the Japanese army was prepared for a counterattack by the Nanjing defenders, they did not expect that the defenders would use heavy artillery to bombard them at night! Moreover, this bombardment was so precise that it hit the position directly.
The Japanese troops on guard were caught off guard and the bombed people fell over on their backs, while Gu Daqi and others who were lurking in front of the position were filled with excitement! This kind of treatment was something that only the Japanese had experienced in the past, and I tried it in my heart. It was so refreshing!
"Malu! Send someone to the front line immediately to see what's going on. Are the defenders about to launch a counterattack?!" Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro roared at the adjutant, who said "Hai" and ran away with a pale face.
When the shelling was over, the platoon commanders and company commanders of the National Defense Forces roared and jumped up with their men to kill the Japanese positions!
Before the stunned Japanese troops could react, the soldiers of the National Defense Force rushed into the position!
"Da da da..." This was the roar of light machine guns and submachine guns. Countless Japanese soldiers screamed and were knocked down in the dark night! And there was a thundering roar from behind the National Defense Forces!
After they launched a counterattack, the troops behind also launched a charge.
The fighting style of the National Defense Forces has always been extremely fierce. The light machine guns and submachine guns started to clear up the fire. The grenade behind them fired a burst of fire at the Japanese position, and all the fire points detected by the crow were hit by grenades.
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"Kill the Japanese!" Gu Daqi proudly grabbed the submachine gun and rushed to the front in one breath! Sweeping away several Japanese soldiers who tried to pounce, he used the bunker to cover his own side.
In just a few moments, the Japanese front-line positions retreated. The roaring National Defense Forces had already rushed to the position, and were killing like an endless torrent towards the second-line positions!
"Thud, tug, tug..." Due to the resistance from the first-line positions, the Japanese second-line positions finally had time to prepare. They set up heavy machine guns and fired at the charging troops.
A few crows stepped out, holding a fire crow in their hands and pointing at the Japanese army's firepower, which was a "whoosh~" rocket! Only to see the rocket dragging its tail flame and slam into the Japanese army's position.
"Boom!!" But screams were heard in the dark night, and the machine gun suddenly misfired!
Chapter completed!