Yang Zhen's sense of smell is still keen. After entering August, the Japanese army was indeed ready for battle. Just because the weather was not good, the Songhua River entered the flood season. [.Com text] Not to mention the heavy rain, the water level of the Songhua River was also
The surge greatly hindered the movement of the troops, which was why they were delayed.
As the situation in the Nomenhan area has gradually begun to ease, Umezu Yoshijiro, who has just been promoted to general in advance, has mobilized his troops and prepared to occupy this force from Luobei in the north to Fengshan County in the south.
Starting from the west bank of the Songhua River in Suibin in the east and ending in several counties at the eastern foot of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in Foshan in the west, the bandits who stubbornly resisted the imperial army were completely wiped out in one go.
Nomenhan received a heavy beating from the Soviet army, and the Soviet army used aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery to give a solid lesson in what is called modern three-dimensional warfare. The Kwantung Army finally couldn't bear the huge cost of casualties. Honestly
He lowered his head. This time, the Kwantung Army, whose entire division and half had been crippled, understood what the gap was.
Umezu Yoshijiro was very smart. The protracted battle of Nomonhan brought not only serious casualties to the Kwantung Army, but also a huge consumption of materials that the Kwantung Army, and even the entire Japanese Empire, could not bear.
Compared with the expendable infantry, what was more unbearable for the Japanese army was the heavy losses of the much more precious tanks and well-trained vehicle crews. The aviation force suffered huge losses of equally precious aircraft and pilots, as well as the huge losses in the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain.
After the loss, the already poor reserve of heavy artillery shells was depleted.
During the battle, the Kwantung Army was horrified to find that if they shot down a Soviet aircraft, the other side would add ten more. For every tank they destroyed, the other side would add ten more, or even hundreds. Even if a shot was fired, it would be 70 mm.
Infantry artillery shells, the other side will fire back dozens or even hundreds of 122mm and 152mm heavy artillery shells with much greater caliber and lethality. The disparity in firepower can almost be described as overwhelming.
Military artillery fire made almost every attack by the Japanese army fail.
The huge losses in the battle, especially the loss of technical equipment, made Umezu Yoshijiro keenly feel that the fight could not go on as early as the end of July.
The loss of infantry does not matter to him, but due to limited production capacity, every tank, every aircraft, including its crew, is extremely precious to the Kwantung Army. He was beaten into pieces in Nomenhan
Although the Soviet army suffered more losses, it also made the Japanese army feel distressed and almost bleed.
Japan's national strength is weak and cannot be compared with those established European and American powers. If this rate of loss continues, no matter how many tanks and aircraft Japan's arsenal produces, it will not be enough to add to it.
Although he is much younger than Ueda Kenkichi, Umezu Yoshijiro has always considered things carefully and thoroughly, and handled things extremely calmly. In early August, he called the Tokyo base camp several times regarding the Battle of Nomonhan and proposed a truce. Before the China Incident was completely resolved,
, it is not appropriate to launch a full-scale war against the Soviet Union. At least for now, the Japanese army is not ready for a long-term war against the Soviet Union.
Compared with Ueda Kenkichi, the Japanese base camp paid more attention to Umezu Meijiro's opinions. Under General Umezu's tough attitude, more than half of the 23rd Division that participated in the war suffered casualties, and the 7th Division that also brought reinforcements also suffered heavy casualties.
Unable to fight any more, they were finally forced to issue a ceasefire order on August 13th. This result was a full month earlier than the history that Yang Zhen knew.
After the armistice in the Nomonhan area, Umezu Yoshijiro handed over the task of cleaning up the mess to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters, and he personally flew to Jiamusi to deploy and eliminate Yang Zhen's headquarters. He mobilized a large number of troops and aviation forces.
The other technical units quickly deployed along the south bank of the Songhua River.
The north of the Songhua River is mountainous, so the empire's precious tanks are naturally not needed. However, aircraft are still of considerable use. Umezu Yoshijiro gradually transferred one-third of the Army Air Force that had gradually withdrawn from the Nomonhan area to Jiamusi.
As well as several surrounding field airports. In addition to reconnaissance aircraft and light bombers, Umezu Yoshijiro even mobilized an entire fleet of Type 97 medium bombers.
Although the light weapon brought back from the 104th Division was dilapidated and had a strange appearance, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always attached great importance to intelligence work, keenly felt that his opponent should already have a sizable arsenal. He mobilized concentrated bombers to participate in the battle.
Just to completely destroy the opponent's arsenal.
In fact, Umezu Yoshijiro already knew that his opponent already had at least part of the military production capacity before the 104th Division reported it. This was because he finally found out the secret base on Mount Gunze that was kept secret by General Ueda Kenkichi.
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When Umezu Yoshijiro learned how much supplies were stored there, the always modest Umezu Yoshijiro no longer cared about his demeanor and directly took the blame for the defeat of the Nomonhan War in front of the dismissed former chief of staff Rensuke Isotani.
He yelled at Ueda Kenkichi that he was a stupid donkey who didn't even understand why eggs can't be put in one basket.
It was not only his predecessor who was scolded in his mouth, but even the staff of the Kwantung Army suffered disaster when Ueda Kenkichi was in office. In his mouth, he could not even compare to a stupid donkey, and they were all so short-sighted.
What made him even more angry was that Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, who commanded the Japanese Fourth Division stationed in Jiamusi, told him on the first day he took office that the arsenal originally planned to be set up by the Kwantung Army in Jiamusi in order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union was
After the opponent successfully attacked Jiamusi, all the machines that had not yet had time to unload the trucks disappeared together with a large number of workers.
Not counting the loss of a large amount of military equipment and raw materials that were secret reserves, Ueda Kenkichi thought it was not enough to increase his family's strength, so in the end he even sent a large number of workers to the door. Did he really think that these Chinese people were fools?
Leave ready-made machinery and equipment and skilled workers unused?
The reason why Umezu Yoshijiro changed his original plan and made up his mind to wipe out this bandit as soon as possible was that although he knew that his opponent had an arsenal, he did not expect that the opponent could become productive in such a short period of time. Umezu Yoshijiro knew that,
The longer this drags on, the harder it will be to exterminate this bandit that has become the norm.
Against all odds, he mobilized a whole fleet of Type 97 bombers just to find out the opponent's arsenal and completely destroy it from the air. If it was convenient, he wouldn't even mind killing it because the heavy artillery shells stored by the Kwantung Army were in Nuovo.
When the embers of the Battle of Menhan were exhausted, this medium bomber team was used to plow the opponent's base area.
In addition to a large number of aviation forces, Umezu Yoshijiro also mobilized the newly formed 24th and 25th Japanese divisions, four mixed brigades and two independent brigades of the puppet Manchukuo army.
A cavalry brigade of the Xing'an Army and the Japanese and puppet troops totaled more than 60,000 troops. As for the Fourth Division originally stationed in Jiamusi, in view of the continuous defeat of the division in the early stages of the campaign, not to mention the heavy losses suffered by other cooperating units,
Under the urging of the new chief of staff, Lieutenant General Iimura, Umezu Yoshijiro never thought of using this weapon. Because he suffered repeated defeats and suffered little losses, he brought the entire attached army to annihilation, and was defeated within the Kwantung Army.
The troops called broom stars.
What Umezu Yoshijiro, who thought he had made adequate preparations, didn't expect was that the operation was full of ominous connotations from the very beginning.
The first ominous sign was that in order to ensure sufficient covering firepower, Umezu Yoshijiro dragged the 12th Flying Group into the battlefield despite the objections of Lieutenant General Iimura, who had just finished the bombing of Lanzhou and was transferred to Manchuria for rest.
The ominous omen began with the 12th Flying Squadron. The 12th Squadron, which was equipped with advanced bombers imported from Italy, had just arrived in Jiamusi when it was hit by a heavy rain. As a result, except for the 10th Squadron that had already seen it,
Everyone except the Second World War Corps themselves was shocked that the fuselages of these advanced imported aircraft were actually damaged by heavy rain.
After finally repairing two of them, they took off to conduct reconnaissance at Luobei, Heli, and Tangyuan, but they never came back. During the entire battle, this team suffered a heavy battle loss rate when the opponent's air defense firepower was weak.
The rate was so low that even the Japanese army was already extremely lagging behind the Type 93, less than half of it.
The performance of this advanced bomber in this battle, together with the same poor performance in the Guan Civil War, made the Japanese army, which had always been stingy, no longer able to tolerate it. The Japanese army thought they had taken advantage and imported them at low prices from so-called allies.
After the war, all advanced bombers were retired.
Of course, what happened to the Twelve Squadrons was just one of the unknown things they encountered before the battle even started. Affected by the heavy rain, it was not just the Twelve Squadrons that were unlucky. Because a large number of aircraft were mobilized to Jiamusi at the same time, the scale was already large.
Jiamusi Airport, which is not very big, far exceeds its capacity.
A large number of aircraft could only be temporarily parked in the open air because there was no room for parking. After a rare heavy rainstorm mixed with hail that lasted for three hours in the Sanjiang area, not only did the aircraft of the 12th Air Force Team look thick on the surface, but in fact
The extremely fragile Italian bombers suffered heavy losses, and even other aviation groups also suffered heavy losses.
More than a dozen Type 97 light bombers and Type 98 reconnaissance aircraft were washed away by the floods caused by heavy rains and disappeared without a trace. Mountains of gasoline and even bombs stored at the airport were also swept away by the floods.
Not to mention most of them. Even several pilots who swore to live and die with the aircraft also went to visit the Dragon King.
When the weather finally cleared up and the Japanese engineers were busy repairing the airport that was destroyed by heavy rain, a burst of long-range artillery fire from Jiangbei made their efforts in vain. The explosion caused by the piles of gasoline and bombs on the airport will
Half of the airport was sent to the sky.
In addition to those Twelve Sentai aircraft that were too fragile and were temporarily transferred to other airports, more than half of the aircraft that Umezu Meijiro mobilized to Jiamusi, together with those previously lost in the flood, were lost, and the pilots suffered heavy casualties.
Meizu Yoshijiro, who had never thought that a bandit armed force could have heavy artillery that could hit the Jiamusi Airport from the north bank of the Songhua River, saw the tragic situation at the airport. He couldn't just describe it as furious. He knew clearly that the artillery could hit such a long distance.
It can only be the Japanese 150mm long-range cannon developed by the Japanese army with a range of more than 18,000 meters.
Not long ago, after the war in Nomenhan had just eased, he withstood the great pressure from the front line and assigned two of these artillery pieces to the 25th Division to block the Songhua River bank in Yilan. In addition to General Shiro Kuwahara,
Apart from losing these two cannons, it is impossible for the opponent to have cannons that can shoot such a long distance.
There are Taisho 4-year-old 150mm howitzers that the Army has begun to phase out in the secret warehouse at Qunce Mountain. Umezu Yoshijiro knows this. Moreover, the troops who participated in the Qunce Mountain battle have reported many times that they have suffered 100-mm howitzers.
Bombardment by fifty-millimeter heavy artillery.
However, the Taisho 4th-year-old 150mm howitzer with a range of only about 8,000 meters can never hit that far. Umezu Yoshijiro can be sure of this. Apart from the fact that the opponent has obtained a new long-range artillery from Heilongjiang North, the only other possibility is
That is, the opponent captured the Kwantung Army's long-range cannon again.
In order to settle the ongoing negotiation and litigation with the Soviet Union, after the Jiamusi Airport was attacked by long-range artillery fire, Umezu Yoshijiro specially dispatched a large number of technical personnel from the Kwantung Army Artillery Command to conduct a careful survey of the shelling site. Knowing that it was not accurate
It's possible, but Umezu Yoshijiro still hopes that the artillery used to bombard the airport is Soviet-made artillery.
In order to find out the real evidence of Jiangbei's support for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so as to cut off the other party's external supplies as much as possible during the negotiations. General Umezu Yoshijiro did not think that the other party would not find a way to obtain the goods from one of their ancestors when they were already adjacent to Jiangbei.
Get some weapons and equipment from the so-called fraternal parties.
As long as we can seize real evidence, we can at least force the hateful polar bears to make certain concessions during negotiations. Even if we don't cut off the other party's external supply channels, we must prevent them from being so blatant.
However, the results of the appraisal surprised him. The technicians guaranteed with the dignity of their samurai that the artillery used by the opponent to bombard the airport was the Japanese Army's own 150mm cannon. Two from the bombardment site because
There was no fuse inserted, and judging from the unexploded warhead, the opponent was not skilled in using such a large-range artillery. Being able to hit the airport can only be described as a "lucky" in two words.
After receiving this report, General Meizu Yoshijiro almost vomited blood in anger. How lucky was he to be able to shoot so accurately? How lucky was he to send nearly half of the aviation troops he had painstakingly mobilized to Jiamusi Airport to the west? If they had mastered it more proficiently, wouldn't they have been able to do so?
Are you, the commander of the Kwantung Army in Jiamusi, sent to the West together?
The furious General Umezu Yoshijiro threw the report in the face of the head of the appraisal team who came to report. Faced with General Umezu Yoshijiro's rage, the appraisal chief was definitely shocked and told General Umezu Yoshijiro that if the other party could be skilled
Mastering the use of this kind of artillery, with its shooting accuracy and range, there would be no problem in hitting his temporary headquarters.
The reason why the opponent was able to hit the airport was not only a fluke, but also certain that there must be correctors secretly infiltrated around the airport to provide parameters for the bombardment.
This answer made Umezu Yoshijiro, who was already extremely furious because of the heavy losses of the aviation force, even more furious and made his back feel cold. If this result is true, the opponent can actually send in a small force under his heavily guarded nose.
Approach Jiamusi Airport and complete the guidance of artillery fire. If they sneak into Jiamusi, wouldn't they themselves be in danger?
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