Chapter 1402: Frequent Big Moves

The 88th Division retreated into Nanjing City, which was of great significance!

This fully demonstrated that the Nanjing City Defense Headquarters had abandoned all the outer positions outside Nanjing City.

Yes, even the Yuhuatai position, which was only one kilometer away from Nanjing City, was abandoned. If this is not abandoning all the outer positions, how can it be?

The wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold, and the warriors will never return once they leave!

In theory, the party defending the city will have the advantage of geographical advantages in modern wars, especially in ancient wars.

Unfortunately, this rule does not apply to the Chinese city defense troops at all.

The reason is very simple. Compared with the Central China Front Army, the Chinese troops are seriously lacking in heavy weapons.

The key point is that this kind of heavy weapon includes not only cannons, but also aircraft.

Although Ye Tian led his troops to risk his life and blew up many Japanese cannons and destroyed many Japanese aircraft.

However, the national strength of the island country is too strong.

Whenever a heavy weapon is lost, it can always be quickly replenished in a very short time.

Moreover, the Central China Front Army can also use two routines for supply.

First, it is to immediately ship the cannons to China as soon as possible from the arsenals scattered throughout the island country by sea transportation.

Whether it is the army aircraft or the navy aircraft, they can pass through Shanghai and land at the various airports around Nanjing City as soon as possible.

Second, the three provinces in the east of China have long become colonies of the island country during the local war of resistance that began in 31.

In addition to the large and even super-large arsenals abandoned by the Northeast Army, the island country's Kwantung Army has also established more arsenals.

Since the occupation of this place, just like operating the island country, the Kwantung Army has also implemented a state of military control here.

Naturally, all these arsenals are producing various weapons and ammunition day and night.

Therefore, if the front-line troops lose weapons or lack weapons and ammunition, the island country can quickly replenish the front-line troops from the various arsenals scattered throughout the three provinces.

Compared with the siege force of the Central China Front Army, the Chinese city defense troops are not simply lacking heavy weapons.

The most important thing is that even the military strength is far inferior.

Even before the Battle of Nanjing began, the Chinese city defense force could only gather 100,000 troops.

On the other hand, the Central China Front Army had nine divisions.

And each division had 30,000 to 40,000 devils.

That's not all. In addition to hundreds of thousands of devils, the Central China Front Army also had nearly one million traitors to drive.

During the Anti-Japanese War, there is a recognized fact:

Because the soldiers' military literacy is seriously inferior to the devils, and their heavy weapons are far inferior, if the Chinese troops want to tie with the devils, their military strength must be at least five times that of the devils.

Nowadays, the comparison of the military strength of both sides in the Battle of Nanjing is so disparate. It is conceivable how difficult it is for the city defense troops!

In fact, for China, this deployment is also a helpless solution.

First of all, there are not many places that can be called natural dangers around Nanjing City, except for the low hills and mountains scattered everywhere.

If it were in the ancient times when technology was not developed, the natural barrier of the Yangtze River would definitely be considered a geographical advantage.

Unfortunately, we have already entered the era of hot weapons.

Compared with the era of cold weapons, the range of various hot weapons has increased a lot.

Most importantly, the power is constantly increasing at a geometric level.

What's more, in the Battle of Jiangyin, the Chinese navy was completely wiped out.

Therefore, the Yangtze River, which has always been known as the golden waterway, has become the private land of the devils.

Compared with the vast sea, the Yangtze River is very long, but it is very narrow in many places.

Therefore, the battleships and aircraft carriers of the island countries are too large and have too deep a draft, so it is difficult for them to sail along the Yangtze River estuary and into the inland areas of China.

However, warships such as cruisers and destroyers, which are smaller than battleships and aircraft carriers, do not have this concern.

The key point is that these warships are covered with various large-caliber naval guns.

In fact, in order to prevent the island country's warships from going upstream and launching artillery attacks on their own troops, China has made a lot of efforts.

For example, it called on all private shipping companies to sink their own ships at the time of national crisis, thereby blocking the Yangtze River waterway and effectively blocking the Japanese warships in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In fact, the contribution made by these private shipping companies to the country is not just to sink their own ships.

When the national crisis came, they went upstream of the Yangtze River to transport refugees and various strategic materials.

It is worth mentioning that many of these businesses do not ask for compensation from the people and relevant units!

For example, let those naval officers and soldiers who no longer have warships lead ordinary army officers and soldiers to deploy a large number of mines at various important locations in the Yangtze River.

It must be said that all departments in China worked hard.

In particular, the private shipping companies made great sacrifices for the national war.

Unfortunately, most of these efforts did not play a big role.

Under the command of the Central China Front Command, many blocked waterways were repaired one after another.

The large mines scattered throughout the waterways were also cleared one after another by the Japanese minesweepers.

Naturally, nowadays, hundreds of Japanese warships can come and go freely in various waterways downstream of Nanjing City!

Taking the ongoing Nanjing Defense War as an example, in order to better support the Central China Front Army and to block the last retreat of the Chinese city defense forces, the Third Fleet has long been ready to move.

The most important thing is that they have taken practical actions.

The final retreat route of the Chinese city defense forces is to cross the Yangtze River along the Xiaguan area of ​​Nanjing City and reach the Pukou area on the opposite bank.

After escaping to the Pukou area, according to the order of the Supreme Command, relying on the geographical advantages of the land route extending in all directions, they arrived at the designated locations in batches.

In fact, in addition to the Third Fleet, the army troops of the Central China Front Army were also included in the encirclement of the Chinese city defense troops.

Of course, in addition to the Japanese troops, the traitor troops were naturally indispensable in this operation.

In a word, now Nanjing City has entered an extremely dangerous situation!

The storm is coming!

The dark clouds are pressing down on the city and the city is about to be destroyed!

Ye Tian was very familiar with these situations.

For this reason, without hesitation, Ye Tian planned to launch a few more big moves in order to protect Nanjing City, to help the city defense troops, and to minimize the casualties of the civilians in the city.

Ye Tian was convinced that once these big moves were launched, they would definitely achieve very good results.