July 1935 was a month of triumph for the Chinese Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army in this dimension.
First of all, although the mainland has been baptized by nuclear explosions and Tokyo and Osaka were reduced to radioactive wastelands, even under such circumstances, the fanatical Japanese army still refused to compromise and sue for peace. Instead, it declared the establishment of war on July 15. At the base camp, the whole country mobilized into the wartime system, vowing to fight the war to "punish China" to the end! Therefore, the Shanghai Red Army obediently sent the fifth nuclear bomb again on July 17, using the rising mushroom cloud as the most gorgeous fireworks in the world, lighting up the sky of Kyoto.
However, although the Japanese are still stubborn and refuse to admit defeat, their tough rhetoric cannot reverse the successive defeats on the mainland battlefield - reinforcements and supplies of ammunition and materials from Japan have been completely cut off at this time; In the occupied areas of Henan, Hebei, and Shandong, riots broke out like volcanic eruptions.
¡ª¡ªThrough the extensive propaganda of the underground party and the gnashing of teeth and curses of the Japanese, many people all over China, at least the relatively well-informed urban residents, have learned about the five catastrophes that occurred in Japan, as well as the information controlled by the Chinese Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army. "Powerful nuclear weapons specially designed to destroy the country" and a consensus has initially been formed: as long as this war continues, Japan will soon be wiped off the face of the earth!
Under such circumstances, even the most die-hard traitor cannot help but feel a drum in his heart and begin to actively think of ways to find a way out for himself.
As for the traitor troops who had just defected to the Japanese in the past two months, they have become extremely unreliable.
It just so happened that the Japanese never had time to carry out nationwide mobilization - at first they extremely despised the "inferior Chinese nation". Moreover, with the support of the whole world, the battle was going smoothly, and it felt unnecessary; after eating a few nuclear bombs. Domestic order has basically collapsed, and it is impossible to mobilize for a general war. Therefore, the construction of the Japanese army is still following the route of a small number of elites. The core domestic force is one Guards division plus 17 standing divisions, plus " They are just some miscellaneous troops of the Korean Army and the Taiwan Army in the "Overseas Colonies".
As a result, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which did not follow common sense, was now on display. The unlucky Japanese Army soon suffered heavy losses - four divisions were wiped out and annihilated on the Jiangnan battlefield, and five divisions were destroyed by nuclear explosions at home. Three divisions were involved in local disaster relief and suppression of riots, and the last four divisions. More than 100,000 troops were deployed on a vast front of thousands of miles from Heilongjiang to Jiangsu and Shandong, and disappeared like pepper noodles.
What's more, as Japan's hometown gradually turns into a radioactive wasteland, the Japanese troops on the front lines of mainland China are increasingly losing morale, fighting will and combat effectiveness. The motherland with its cherry blossoms is almost over, even in "China" So what if we win more battles?
In fact, after the Fourth Division withdrew to Peiping. On the battlefield of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers from Shandong, Henan, Hebei to Jiangsu, all the combat forces deployed by the Japanese army only left the Sixth Division and a number of scattered remnants and defeated generals, which amounted to less than 40,000 people. With such a pitiful force, not to mention launching an attack, even holding the existing territory is an impossible task. We must rely heavily on China's puppet army.
However, with the rapid desolation of Japan, the loyalty of the puppet army was also shaken sharply. Various mutinies, escapes, rebellions, and robbery of arsenals and treasury occurred in endlessly, so that the Japanese army was so anxious that they looked at these things around them. The eyes of the "China Allies" are getting weirder and weirder
About this. The only countermeasure of Japan's wartime base camp was to mobilize the Korean army, the Taiwanese army and the puppet Manchukuo army. Supporting the Shandong operation - Unfortunately, the nuclear explosion severely disrupted Japan's shipping and completely disrupted the routine operations of military and political agencies, making the troop deployment operation delayed in completion.
On the other hand, after learning that the Workers¡¯ and Peasants¡¯ Red Army possesses a super-killer weapon that can ¡°annihilate the country in one strike¡± and cannot be stopped by manpower, the various warlords in the country were immediately frightened: faced with such an irresistible powerful enemy , any military confrontation with real swords and guns is obviously meaningless; and if the people are tied up as hostages How can such a terrorist policy that lacks technical content be effective in the chaotic world of endless fighting?
Under such circumstances, the attitude of warlords, big and small, and the troops under these warlords in various parts of China towards the Red Army soon underwent huge changes - seeing that the Red Army had defeated even the Japanese little devils, It's better not to carry yourself to death with your small body.
Among them, Yan Xishan has sent a secret envoy to Shanghai to discuss the price of Yi Zhi's adaptation. Zhang Xueliang, who had lost all his territory and most of his troops, even sent a letter from Luoyang to recommend himself, saying that he could help in the battle to regain the Northeast. As for Long Yun of Yunnan, Yang Hucheng of Shaanxi, and Liu Xiang of Sichuan, they also implicitly issued "peace construction"."" initiative completely ignored the two national governments in Beijing and Wuhan.
Even in Beijing and Wuhan, with the rapid changes in the situation, many "communist" people have emerged.
¡ª¡ªStarting from early July, the Kuomintang troops sent by Chiang Kai-shek to clear out the revolutionary base areas in the Dabie Mountains began to disobey orders, stagnated troops, and even mutinied one after another. After seeing the Japanese army defeated and defeated, the Japanese Empire turned into After the tragic situation of the scorched earth, the underground party workers offered super high prices of US$3 million for a division commander, US$200,000 for a regiment commander, and US$50,000 for a company commander. The Kuomintang army was formed based on the "market economy principles" , and soon one after another decisively sold themselves out and surrendered, and then they counted their money and planned to go abroad to live in an apartment.
Although this kind of "silver bullet strategy" popular in the Republic of China era is very unscrupulous, it is very cost-effective and even a little addictive - there is no way, for the time-travelers who have the super cheating machine of the governments of the modern world, don't There may be a bit of a shortage of things. Only banknotes are absolutely available, and every one of them is extremely real. If we could use a pile of "genuine" foreign banknotes to directly avoid the flames of war and buy the victory of the national revolution. That price is definitely much cheaper than wasting bullets and lives.
The only regret is that as the Japanese Empire gradually turned into a radioactive wasteland. Japanese yen banknotes are gradually becoming equivalent to waste paper and will be rejected no matter where they are taken, which makes former Prime Minister Kotori Yu Mashiro feel very sorry.
On the Hubei battlefield in July, the Kuomintang troops have retreated to the front line of the Jianghan Plain. Even the most die-hard reactionaries currently only dare to defend a few strongholds and have no courage to actively attack the Red Army base areas. Even if she is forced to take the initiative, she is as gentle as a sheep. Slowly rising, tepid, and hastily retracting at full speed at the slightest sign of trouble, which made Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan very angry. He called and sent telegrams everywhere to command the troops at higher levels, which caused more chaos and collapse, and also led to The officers and soldiers became even more disengaged.
Thus. The pressure on Xu Xiang's front line in the Dabie Mountains immediately dropped dramatically, and he fought several turnaround battles in July. The Japanese army was extremely short of troops and could only use a few squadrons to challenge the tens of thousands of Red Army troops on the front line. The result was that every battle was inevitable. With the collapse of the Japanese army and the increase in bribery of the underground party, the combat effectiveness of the puppet army has reached shocking new lows. There was even a big joke about a puppet army division surrendering to a Red Army platoon.
By the end of July, Xu Xiangqian¡¯s troops had already arrived at the gates of Hefei. Prepare to join forces with Su Yu along the Huaihe River.
In Hunan, the revolutionary situation was even better - Chairman Mao personally led his troops back to his hometown of Shaoshan, launched a peasant association to organize a major uprising, and opened up communication lines with the Jiangxi Soviet Area. He Long's old colleagues in the Hunan Army lined up with shy faces to discuss the treatment issue after Yi Zhi. Even the direct descendants of the Kuomintang Huangpu who were trapped in Changsha, the provincial capital, were subjected to several indiscriminate bombings from rocket launchers and aircraft bombs. After being threatened by the Red Army soldiers with "nuclear bombs to massacre the city" (purely just talking), they kidnapped the chief Xue Yue and the Hunan Provincial Chairman who had just been appointed by Chiang Kai-shek and surrendered.
In this way, by mid-July, the two provincial capitals Changsha and Guangzhou were recovered one after another. In late July, red flags flew again in Nanchang.
Although with the shallow-water gunboats of the United States, Britain, and Japan retreating to the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the fire support provided by the Kuomintang naval ships, the two inland river ports of Jiujiang and Yueyang are still in the hands of the Kuomintang die-hards, leaving the Red Army in Jiangxi and Hunan unable to The entire province was recovered, but as the Shanghai Red Army fleet gradually moved westward along the Yangtze River, the Kuomintang navy, which relied solely on "there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are kings", did not have much time left to survive.
Amid such a wave of red flags sweeping across China, the Truk Anchorage Squadron of the Japanese Navy led by Major General Chuichi Nagumo, after an exhausting and long journey, finally passed through the stormy waves of the summer Pacific and arrived at the Taiwan colony - ¡ªAccording to the scheduled plan, they will make final rest and recuperation here, mount the landing force provided by the Army, and then launch a desperate raid on Shanghai together.
However, Major General Chuichi Nagumo, who returned with a generous and tragic feeling, received a cold blow in Taiwan
This city, formerly known as "Chicken Coop", is located in the northeast corner of Taiwan Island, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. With the help of developed maritime transportation and emerging railway transportation, as well as its unique geographical location, its development has been accelerated under Japanese rule, and it is now an important port where thousands of merchants gather.
At this moment, after forty years of Japanese rule, the resistance of the Taiwanese people has gradually weakened, and people in Taiwan have begun to?Japanese assimilation gradually stabilized colonial rule. It is true that the Japanese regard themselves as superior people in Taiwan, look down on the Taiwanese, and rule the Taiwanese as second-class citizens. However, it cannot be denied that the Japanese also brought great benefits to Taiwan. The arrival of some modern things has allowed this subtropical island with relatively backward social development to gradually integrate into modern society, and also allowed the majority of Taiwanese people to gradually develop a certain sense of identification with Japanese rule.
Therefore, even at this moment when the Japanese Empire was rapidly reduced to a radioactive wasteland, and the vast occupied area of ????millions of square kilometers from Manchuria to North Korea was full of undercurrents, the island of Taiwan still maintained a rare and precious calm and this is why The reason why the Japanese army chose this place as their final counterattack base.
The Japanese sailors who rushed back from the Truk Atoll on the equator finally got on-the-spot reports on several nuclear explosions in the country at Keelung Port.
"The fireball that exploded over Mount Fuji was about five kilometers in diameter. It could be seen by people as far away as Sapporo City on Hokkaido Island and the Port of Busan on the Korean Peninsula. The mushroom cloud that eventually erupted reached the upper atmosphere; the hot wind generated by the explosion, It burned almost everyone in the Kanto Plain. The flash of the explosion caused the citizens of Nagoya to feel severe pain and burns in their eyes, and even suffered cataracts and blindness. The scorching foehn wind generated by the explosion was also felt in Kyoto and the Ogasawara Islands. Even The United States, far away on the other side of the Pacific, also detected magnitude 5 seismic waves from instruments
Across Tokyo, almost all wooden houses were destroyed; only masonry or concrete houses could remain, but the doors, windows and roofs were also blown away by strong winds; and the fire that broke out subsequently changed the city of Tokyo today. District, just like the early Warring States Period. Just like Kyoto during the Onin Rebellion, it was completely burned to a scorched earth that could hardly survive. His Majesty the Emperor's palace was also damaged Millions of Tokyoites are like ghosts, wandering in their homes that have been reduced to rubble. The former prosperous metropolis of the Far East has now been reduced to a human hell without law and order. ¡
¡The fireball that exploded in Hiroshima not only leveled the entire urban area of ??Hiroshima, but also swept away the nearby Kure garrison and Etajima Naval Academy. The shipyards and fortresses of Wu Port were reduced to ruins. The cherry blossoms of Etajima have disappeared together with the imperial navy athletes"
¡ª¡ªAccording to the practice of the Japanese Empire, this kind of news that "spreads the idea of ??failure" is not allowed to be published in the newspapers during the war. However, the hastily established wartime headquarters was still in extreme chaos at this time, and no one thought of introducing laws on press censorship. So, in the local newspapers in Taiwan. Almost every one of them used headlines to report various tragedies in Japan.
This made the sailors, who were still slightly afraid of the war, suddenly filled with indignation and vowed to fight to the death with the Chinese in Shanghai.
However, when the Japanese navy, which has always been gentle and gentle, was aroused to be fierce, the notorious Japanese army unfortunately fell off the chain.
"What on earth is the army doing? What on earth is the government doing? Why can't it assemble enough army in Taiwan?!"
Rear Admiral Nagumo Chuichi is a veteran. Lieutenant General Juichi Terauchi, commander of the Taiwan Army, was shocked to learn that none of the several army divisions scheduled to be assembled at Keelung Port were in place. For a moment, he could no longer care about his superiority and inferiority, and started shouting with veins on his forehead, " Don't you know that the rise and fall of the empire depends on this battle? No matter how powerful our navy is, we can't go ashore, and we can't blast it with naval guns alone. Defeat the Shanghai Communist Army!"
"I'm sorry, Nagumo-kun, but it's also very difficult at home." Lieutenant General Juichi Terauchi wiped the spit on his face with a handkerchief and said as calmly as possible, "Tokyo, Osaka and Kansai Serious refugee riots broke out in disaster areas in various places due to insufficient relief. In order to ensure that His Majesty the Emperor's Majesty's Majesty is not harassed by mobs, the base camp in Kyoto must leave sufficient suppressive forces.
What¡¯s even more frightening is that the Russians in the north have made strange movements. There are signs of gathering forces in Beitai Island (the Japanese name for Sakhalin Island, the southern part of Sakhalin Island belongs to Japan at this time), Kamchatka Peninsula and other places. The Soviet Russian troops on the front line in Heilongjiang completely broke their previous tacit understanding with the imperial army and openly provided a large amount of arms and equipment to the Manchurian rebels (Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces). They even directly crossed the border and attacked our military posts!
In order to prevent Russia from taking advantage of the situation, the garrison group in the country's only intact Northeastern region (Japan's Northeastern region, namely Sendai, Akita, Hokkaido and other places north of Tokyo) had to be put on alert and could not be easily mobilized. The Kwantung Army in Manchuria had already been engaged in successive fierce battles with the Chinese rebels in Manchuria. At the same time, it had to deal with the pressure of the Soviet Union's heavy military group. It was already outnumbered and overwhelmed, and there were really no troops to mobilize.
As for the Korean army it had been transferred to the Shandong battlefield before to replace the Sixth Division, which was depleted of men and horses and tired from long battles. "But at this point, Terauchi Juichi changed the subject again, " After all, the only place in the country that is relatively peaceful is Taiwan, which is under my jurisdiction. And I also know that if this counterattack is possible, If we fail to win, Taiwan will not be protected! In order to ensure that this Shanghai strategy can be implemented, I have depleted all Taiwan's forces, including the Taiwan garrison, the 1st Infantry Regiment in Taipei, the 2nd Infantry Regiment in Tainan, The Third Infantry Regiment in Taichung, the Mountain Artillery Battalion in Taipei, the Heavy Artillery Battalion in Keelung, and the Magong Heavy Artillery Battalion in Penghu. They also summoned Taiwan's retired soldiers in the countryside and used the reserve ordnance to form two reserve brigades, totaling about two Ten thousand people have been assembled in Keelung. They can board the ship and set off at any time. I will personally lead it and go north to attack Shanghai. If it fails, it will be a disaster! Nanyun-kun, please take care of your fleet this time!"
¡ª¡ªLooking at Lieutenant General Juichi Terauchi who suddenly lowered his head, Major General Nagumo Chuichi couldn't help but burst into tears for a while.
However, what Major General Nagumo Chuichi did not know was that while the Japanese navy and army were searching for all their troops in Taiwan and trying to sneak attack Shanghai, Kim Gu, Li Dongning and other North Korean patriots of the "Republic of Korea government in exile" were also riding on several brand-new ships. The motorboat was fully loaded with Japanese firearms and ammunition previously captured by the Chinese Red Army, sailing high-spiritedly on the East China Sea, preparing to return to Korea to start an uprising and set a fire in the backyard of the Japanese Empire.
What Major General Na Yun Zhongyi didn't even know was that the travelers had packed up their belongings from Shanghai, which had been looted, and took Ms. Jin Qina, Jin Xingzhen, and brothers Mao Anying, Mao Anying and others to take a plane and transfer to the city that had just been occupied by the Red Army. Occupied Guangzhou¡