Japan's crazy plan to destroy Shanghai on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

On the eve of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the Japanese army made a decisive battle plan to destroy Shanghai. Although it failed, this shocking plan reflected the brutality and madness of the Japanese invaders. What the hell is going on here? Let's take a look at China Easy Search.

Death "the battle between the dead"

1945 new year's day means that the death knell of the Japanese invaders has sounded. In February 65438 the year before last, American troops captured the Pacific island of Reytai, and the joint fleet of Japanese navy was completely annihilated. Then, China's anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who persisted for nearly eight years also sounded the horn of counterattack, and the Japanese army was besieged on all sides.

The building will fall down, but the trapped beast will still fight. 17 10 17, Koike Koichi, who succeeded tojo hideki as prime minister, held the supreme war guidance meeting in Tokyo, trying to save the defeat with a new plot. At that meeting, the outline of the so-called imperial Lu Haijun battle plan and the outline of extraordinary measures for decisive battle were formulated. They want to "launch a landing war in Japan, China, Taiwan Province, Shanghai and Nanyang Islands to prevent Japan from being isolated and helpless". In these fateful battles, there will be a suicidal "fight to the death", that is, Japanese soldiers and people will fight with allied planes, ships, tanks and artillery with their own bodies to "loyalty" to the emperor.

On October 22nd, 65438/KLOC-0, a secret order from the Japanese base camp was sent to the headquarters of the Japanese Chinese Dispatching Army in Nanjing: "Focus on strengthening the combat readiness in South China, especially in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River" and "Pay special attention to Shanghai and its surrounding areas". Okamura Ningji, the Japanese chief executive who has always been full of confidence in "martial arts will last forever", immediately ordered his subordinate troops to deploy. This is the "Shanghai decisive battle plan" planned by the Japanese army, including peripheral positional warfare and street fighting. According to this plan, "scorched earth war" and "jade crushing war" will be launched in Shanghai, and "deep defense" and "mobile attack" will be used to "systematically attack the enemy's main force and reduce the local defense pressure".

Strengthen the fortification of Shanghai city.

The main point of the "decisive battle plan" is to first strengthen the fortification of cities outside Shanghai. The Ministry of Engineering of Japan has specially formulated a document for this purpose, calling it "both hidden and solid, and easy to attack". When the Japanese attacked Shanghai that year, they landed illegally from Hangzhou Bay and successfully attacked from the flank. In order to prevent the Japanese and American troops from using this tactic, the Japanese army overhauled the bunkers in jinshanwei around 1945. Due to the shortage of steel for construction, the old caliber artillery bombed by China army in Yiwu Mountain, Zhejiang Province was also dismantled and used.

For the first-line fortifications connecting Jiading, Taicang and Jiangsu in the northern suburbs of Shanghai, the Japanese army clearly demarcated several defense zones and strengthened supervision. According to people's records at that time, "building defensive nets, digging trenches, building castles, digging trenches and building roads, day and night." There is only one county in Jiading County, that is,' more than 100,000 civilian workers are forcibly recruited and one million trees are cut down as a precaution'. For the migrant workers recruited, "a little carelessness will lead to fatal disaster." In the spring and summer of that year, "after nearly April, the local manpower and material resources have been exhausted." At the same time, Japanese troops stationed in western Shanghai are also struggling to repair fortifications. At the beginning of spring, Shang Wei, the squadron leader of the Japanese artillery team stationed in Xujiahui, ordered the pseudo-Xujiahui Federation to ensure the transfer of thousands of migrant workers during the Long March. Migrant workers were forced to dig trenches and build fortifications in the cold and hunger of cooking and spinning. Apart from a small allowance, they even refused the ration of two Jin of noodles a day.

As the main road and bridge of the "military artery", the Japanese army dare not slack off. 1945 Spring Festival, it rains and snows. Despite the bad weather, the Japanese army urgently ordered the repair and widening of West Lake and Humin Second Road again, "to solve the urgent need". At the same time, five roads connecting the suburbs, including Weixin, Xingya, Cooperation, Military Industry and Shanghai and Taiwan, were extended by 26kil.

In addition to the land passage, the Japanese Chinese Fleet Command also issued a secret order to immediately deepen and broaden the river channels of inland ports, so that the transmission lines along the river banks are unblocked. According to Japanese investigation, there were more than 60 wharves on both sides of Pujiang at that time, of which 17 was owned by the Japanese navy, 6 were owned by the Japanese army, and the rest were operated by the Japanese maritime trading company entrusted by the Japanese navy to ensure that the army could requisition it at any time.

Well-planned "street fighting"

The most vicious move in the Japanese "Shanghai decisive battle plan" is "street fighting". According to the assumption that the China army and the American army landed from Wusongkou to storm, the defense line of "street fighting" basically follows the main traffic trunk lines in the urban area, starting from Yangpu, Hongkou, Hubei, Suzhou Creek, Hunan, Huxi and Pudong in turn, and setting up a number of troop assembly points at various important locations and intersections. These assembly points are equipped with heavy weapons positions, arsenals, crossfire points, roadblocks, barracks, field hospitals and so on. The Japanese army plans to set up more than 100 bomb shelters in Shanghai, forming more than ten solid defense lines. If these "points" and "lines" are marked on the city map, it is really chilling: the essence of Shanghai's century-old central city will be completely destroyed in the war!