After thinking for a moment, Yang Zhen stretched his hand back. Sitting behind him and following him for a long time, the combat officer who immediately understood what No. 1 wanted immediately took out a few maps from his backpack.
After thinking for a while, he took out a miniature map of Northeast China from the middle. When Yang Zhen took the map, Zhang Zixiong, who was next to the combat staff member, immediately turned on the flashlight he carried. The cooperation between the two people was extremely tacit.
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Yang Zhen took the map and ignored the two people behind him. He looked at the map carefully with the light of Zhang Zixiong's flashlight. His fingers were constantly moving around the railway lines south of Siping Street. He couldn't help but think about it in his head.
, a place where the Japanese military's secret airport may be hidden.
During the occupation of Northeast China, the Kwantung Army built more than 400 permanent airports and field airports in the entire Northeast and North Korea. Many of them were used until the 1990s after the founding of New China. Like New China
Datun Airport and Dafangshen Airport in Beijing have always been important military bases of the Chinese Air Force and the largest civil aviation center in Jilin Province.
In addition to those permanent airports that later became the People's Liberation Army Air Force base and civil aviation airports, there are more permanent airports and field airports that have been submerged in history all over the northeastern plains and mountainous areas. How many are these airports?
, where the distribution areas are, it was not completely clear until decades later.
In particular, some secret airports were still being discovered one after another until the 21st century. Some of them have been hidden among the white mountains and black waters of the Northeast for some reasons, and no one will ever know about them. More than 400 Japanese soldiers have always been there.
According to the total area of Northeast China, almost every county can have one or several.
It's just that most of these airports are field airports, and they are mostly used as front-line support airports. There are still not many airports that can take off and land the bombers, which are the largest tonnage and volume among the Japanese aviation forces. These nearly 200 bombers total
We can't all be invisible.
There are also thousands of Japanese air crews, they can't just disappear out of thin air. And the planes can be concealed, but the fuel, bombs, spare parts and other necessary supplies required by these bombers need to be transported outside. The Japanese army lacks transport aircraft.
It is impossible to rely on air transport for all these things.
The number of trucks of the Japanese army cannot be compared with that of the Western powers. The entire Kwantung Army has an army of nearly one million, and the number of trucks is only more than a thousand. Compared with the Western powers, this number is pitifully small. The automobile industry, which is still quite weak at the moment,
As well as the national policy of tilting inherent resources towards the shipbuilding industry, coupled with the lack of mineral resources, the Japanese army was destined to be unable to establish and maintain a fully mechanized force.
At present, the mobility capabilities of large corps and large quantities of materials, including the Kwantung Army, are mainly based on railways. In other words, the Japanese army's fuel and transportation are inseparable from railways. It's just that the railway lines in the Northeast are too dense.
Coupled with the many years of operation by the Kwantung Army, the number of various branch lines and secret railways built is extremely large.
What is even more unknown is that no one except the Kwantung Army themselves knows where the railway lines extending from the main line to the deep mountains lead. If a railway line, a railway
If we conduct careful reconnaissance on the front lines, I am afraid that even if the Japanese bombs fall on our heads, it will be impossible to complete the investigation. But where should we start to find these damn aircraft?
Yang Zhen now misses those early warning aircraft in later generations whose detection range is hundreds of kilometers, and it is almost impossible to avoid the aircraft once it enters the detection range. The detection range of the current radar is still too close. What's more, the radar in his hand is from the United States
The second-hand goods that have been eliminated by people belong to the first generation of radars put into actual combat use.
Although these radars provide some air defense information, so that the army's air defense no longer relies entirely on manpower. However, the detection range is very short, and the deviation is even greater. Even if it is placed on the commanding heights, its maximum detection range is only more than a hundred kilometers.
Moreover, the signal is quite unclear and extremely susceptible to interference.
If I had an early warning aircraft, I would have spotted these Japanese aircraft as soon as they took off, and there would be such a big trouble there. But I can only think about the early warning aircraft for me now. The most important thing now is to detect the Japanese military.
Where exactly is the aircraft fleet located? In other words, it is better to daydream less and think more about practical problems.
Sliding his fingers along the Zhongchang Railway little by little, Yang Zhen checked all the railway lines in the hinterland of the Japanese army in Jilin and Fengtian. However, his fingers deliberately avoided the Songliao Plain and the Japanese bases around Xinjing.
This place is vast, and a large fleet of aircraft taking off and landing has been discovered for a long time.
There is currently no information on this aspect, indicating that the Japanese aircraft fleet is not hidden in this direction. Since there is no such thing in this direction, then the mountainous areas of Eastern Manchuria and the border between China and North Korea are the possible hiding places for the Japanese aircraft fleet.
Yang Zhen kept sliding his fingers on the map, and finally landed on the Hailong, Xi'an, and Dongfeng areas.
The data of various Japanese bombers are all in Yang Zhen's mind. He can get some key data such as the take-off and landing distance, combat radius, and bomb load of these large Japanese bombers without even thinking about it. It can be said that he has it at his fingertips. Regarding the data of these Japanese bombers,
In terms of performance, he knew no less than the Aviation Intelligence Division.
Although the intelligence department and the aviation force have not yet obtained detailed data on the performance of the two latest bombers of the Japanese army and navy, Yang Zhen had some understanding of these two latest bombers when he read war history in later generations.
, it is only a slight improvement over the original Type 96 and Type 97 bombers. Compared with the American large bombers, there is a huge difference in every aspect.
It is based on this basis, and after the current overall analysis of the reconnaissance results in the plain area, Yang Zhen focused more on this area. These place names may not be clear to future generations, but if their names in later generations are mentioned
, I’m afraid many people already know this.
Hailong County, which currently belongs to Fengtian Province of Puppet Manchukuo, was called Meihekou in later generations. Because it is a transportation hub in the southeastern part of Jilin and an important railway hub in the eastern part of Northeast China. Therefore, until decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was still the Northeast region.
It is an important military town. After the founding of New China, troops have always been stationed here. The famous Long Live Army in later generations was stationed here between the garrison and the capital.
In later generations, the current Xi'an was changed to Liaoyuan because it had the same name as the ancient capital in the northwest. It is the fourth largest city in Jilin Province after the provincial capital Changchun, Jilin, the center of the northeastern power industry, and Siping and other heavy industrial cities.
It is a big city. It is also the most economically developed and affluent region in Jilin Province besides these three heavy industrial cities.
Although both places are in the southeast of Jilin, at the junction with Liaoning, they have convenient transportation and are at the intersection of several railways. The transportation of oil, ammunition, and other materials is extremely convenient. Hailong, in particular, is located between the Changbai Mountains and Songshan Mountains.
The intersection of Liaoning Plain is at the intersection of several important railways in Jilin and even the entire eastern part of Northeast China.
The transportation is convenient, and it is backed by the Changbai Mountains and faces the Songliao Plain. Taking off from here, the entire main stream of the Songhua River is basically within its combat range. Even with the so-called heavy bombers of the Japanese army having a range of more than 2,000 kilometers, including Qiqihar
The Nenjiang River Basin within it is also within its combat radius.
The most important thing is that the eastern part of this place is located in the Changbai Mountains. Although the mountains are not high and not dense, the terrain here is extremely conducive to concealment. It is backed by the Changbai Mountains and faces the Songliao Plain. The favorable terrain also facilitates the Japanese army here.
Build a large secret airport. If the Japanese army built a secret cave to store aircraft here, it would still be difficult to discover given the good vegetation here.
Of course, it is not ruled out that the Japanese army will transfer these bombers to Wonsan and other aviation bases in North Korea. Although the intelligence force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance has developed greatly in the past two years, the intelligence in North Korea has been limited due to various reasons.
The reason is that an effective intelligence network has not been established. North Korea and South Manchuria have always been the weaknesses of the current Anti-Alliance intelligence work.
Although through certain aspects of communication, the resistance organizations that have been operating secretly in North Korea have also established contact with the Anti-Resistance Intelligence Department and begun to provide partial intelligence. However, due to the location and relationship of these people, the people they have access to
The high-level intelligence of the Japanese army is extremely limited. And those Koreans who have the ability to access similar intelligence are completely devoted to the Japanese. Therefore, the Anti-Japanese Alliance's intelligence collection activities on North Korea have always been very limited.
China and North Korea are connected by mountains and rivers, especially the distance from the Northeast is very close. The Japanese army basically used North Korea as a springboard for its previous invasions of China. At the beginning of the July 7th Incident, the Japanese army used southern North Korea on a large scale
Jeju Island, as the departure base for naval aviation land-based heavy aircraft, launched large-scale air raids on Shanghai and Hangzhou.
The Type 96 heavy bomber equipped by the Japanese Navy has an ultra-long range of more than 4,000 kilometers. Taking off from Jeju Island, it can not only reach Shanghai and Nanjing in East China. It even has a combat radius enough to cover the entire Northeast. The latest Type 1
Although the heavy bomber's range is not as good as the Type 96 bomber, its combat radius can cover almost the entire Northeast by taking off from here.
North Korea is too close to the Northeast, and it is even closer to the main stream of the Songhua River, which itself originates from the border between China and North Korea. If Japanese bombers take off from anywhere in North Korea, they can include the entire Northeast within their combat radius. Not to mention the distance between China and North Korea.
The border is only a few hundred kilometers away from the main stream of the Songhua River.
Judging from the usual tactics used by the Japanese army when bombing the rear area in the Guanhai battlefield, its army aviation force is likely to take off from southern Manchuria or Jilin, and its naval aviation force takes off from North Korea. Judging from the so-called combat radius of these Japanese bombers
, the entire Songhua River Basin is within its operational scope.
At the same time, it is more conducive to keeping secrets for the Japanese army. After all, the current Anti-Japanese Alliance still has the ability to retaliate against the Japanese bombing. The Kwantung Army is not a fool and knows what the consequences will be if these aircraft are exposed. Otherwise, they would not
Such painstaking efforts were taken to conceal the whereabouts of these aircraft.