In order to ensure that the attack was carried out strictly in accordance with the battle plan he formulated, General Umezu Yoshijiro ignored the harmony between Japan and Manchuria that he repeatedly emphasized after taking office.
, seize the time to repair flood-damaged roads.
More than 5,000 laborers were recruited from Jiamusi on the spot to undertake the transportation of military rations and other military supplies. [.Com text] The Japanese army has been recruiting strong men, causing the residents of Jiamusi City to complain incessantly. All fools know what it means to be captured by the Japanese army as coolies.
The fate is not to mention not getting a penny, but if it fails, there will be no return. In the past few years, they have seen a lot of the fate of the laborers in the customs.
In the past few years, truckloads of laborers captured from the customs have been pulled northward, but few have come back. Last winter, two Shandong laborers ran away from Heli. The temperature was 20 to 30 degrees below zero.
The temperature was too high, so I put two cement bags on my body and went around begging for food. I finally got something to eat, but before I could eat it, I was caught by the Japanese military police. I threw it into the wolf-dog enclosure on the spot and fed it to the wolf-dogs.
At this time, the Northeastern people who had not yet enjoyed the so-called hard-working service enacted by the Kwantung Army, which was actually forced labor treatment, naturally did not understand the blood and tears of the laborers in the Kwantung Army. When the Japanese army carried out the so-called hard-working service forced labor throughout the Northeast, counties in the Northeast
The dispatched workers also suffered inhuman abuse. After a large number of abnormal deaths, they could deeply understand the blood and tears of those workers in the customs.
However, for the current labor force in Northeast China, the Japanese army conscripted very few people. Most people had no idea what kind of fate they were about to face. It was just the compatriots in the pass who made them somewhat vigilant, so the Japanese army had almost no control over the forced labor recruitment.
One is willing to go.
Of course, slaves who have subjugated their country have no rights. Even if you don’t want to go, you have to go under the threat of bayonets. Even if you are the backbone of your family, if you leave, your whole family will starve to death. As long as the Kwantung Army takes a fancy to
If you want, you have to go. Thanks to the high-intensity work of a large number of laborers working day and night, the road that was washed away by the flood was finally completed before the full-scale attack was launched.
By the end of August, all preparations for the Japanese army were in place. The already impatient Umezu Yoshijiro set the time to launch a full-scale attack on the same day that Germany, Japan's ally in Europe, invaded Poland, which was 1939.
September 1st.
It's just that the launch time of the attack was a few hours later than that of their ally Nazi Germany, from dawn to 7 a.m. Five days before the attack was launched across the board, in order to weaken the opponent's resistance, Umezu Yoshijiro dispatched a large number of aircraft.
Carpet bombing was carried out on all strategic and tactical targets in Jiangbei.
Yang Zhen's ears were sharpened by the dispatch of the reconnaissance battalion, and Yoshijiro Umezu, who had the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department in his hands, a very powerful intelligence agency, was not bad either. Although all the reconnaissance planes were sent out, he still could not figure out the location of the opponent's arsenal.
.But the location of Yang Zhen's headquarters was clearly discovered by him.
On August 31, the day before the attack was launched, under the personal supervision of Umezu Yoshijiro, Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi sent out all the aircraft that could be sent out, including Type 97, Type 98 light bombers, and
It had poor performance and was used by the Japanese army as a straight-line forced landing practice aircraft with a combat radius of only 400 kilometers.
And after taking over and refueling the oil bombs, after receiving a good punch while waiting, they collectively went to the west. All Chengren's 98th Aviation Squadron, and the 97th Type Heavy Duty Squadron of the 61st Squadron that had just withdrawn from the Nomonhan front line.
Bombers. Of course, we cannot forget the 12th Air Force equipped with the advanced heavy bombers of the Italian allies. All of them were sent out.
In order to increase the intensity of air strikes, when the opponent had no air force and no air threat, the Type 97 fighter jets originally used to escort bombers were also equipped with 250 kilogram bombs to participate in ground bombing. Even
The Type 97 reconnaissance aircraft responsible for reconnaissance missions and artillery corrections were all equipped with 100 or 50 kilogram bombs.
The Japanese aircraft came out in force and bombed Yang Zhen's headquarters in the Xingshan Fortress area, as well as all roads in Luobei, Tangyuan, Fengshan, and Tonghe. On the afternoon of August 31st, in fact,
Because Yang Zhen had already led the front troops to move forward to the already deserted headquarters in Tangyuan, nearly 300 bombs weighing 100 kilograms fell.
Under the situation where the Japanese army concentrated hundreds of planes to bomb in turns, not only the roads in Yang Zhen's control area were bombed into a mess, but all kinds of transportation could only be carried out at night. Even the Soviet Union, which was across the river from Yang Zhen's base area,
Several docks within the territory that were directly connected to Luobei and Suibin also dropped many bombs intentionally or unintentionally by the Japanese army.
Of course, in the face of strong protests from the Soviet representatives who were negotiating in the Nomonhan area between Japan and the Soviet Union at this time, the Japanese army used the excuse of "accidental bombing" that a certain superpower often found in the following decades. They also stated that although they could not do so in the future,
Completely cut off the occurrence of such incidents, but are willing to compensate for all losses caused by such incidents.
However, since this loss was caused by the Empire of Japan in order to exterminate bandits in Manchukuo, this money should naturally not be borne by the imperial army. Manchukuo, as the beneficiary, should be fully responsible for such losses.
Lieutenant General Iimura Rang, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, expressed his clear opposition to starting such strategic bombing of enemy-controlled areas in advance before the entire army took action. In his view, such a large-scale launch before the attack was launched
Doesn't the bombing clearly tell the opponent that its attack is imminent?
General Umezu Yoshijiro sneered at Lieutenant General Iimura Rang's objection. In General Umezu's view, he mobilized his troops so frequently that even a fool could smell the different meanings. If the opponent was not prepared, the bombardment of the airport would not have happened.
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Now that the entire operation has been exposed, it is better to concentrate the superior aviation forces to weaken the opponent's combat potential as much as possible before the full-scale war begins. Even if it cannot completely lose its combat effectiveness, it should at least cut off the supply of its frontline troops.
The large-scale bombing by the Japanese army did bring a lot of trouble to Yang Zhen. The movement of troops, the forwarding of supplies, and even the transfer of residents on the preset battlefield could only be carried out at night.
Fortunately, the Japanese army did not have the strength of the US military in the Korean War. They could complete the bombing during the day and send night bombers to keep an eye on the sky at night and blow up everything below at the slightest sign of trouble.
Moreover, the night flying capabilities of the Japanese aviation force at this time were extremely poor, and a considerable number of the troops even had no night flying capabilities. Only one mission involved a total of four BR-20s, two Type 97 heavy bombers, or lost track and crashed into a mountain.
, or disappeared or flew to an unknown place. After the night flight bombing, no matter what General Umezu Yoshijiro urged, Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi never dared to organize a night flight bombing again.
The BR-20 bomber is just a superficial one. The Type 97 heavy bomber is a cutting-edge heavy bomber that the Army has just begun to equip. Due to production capacity, the entire Army has not equipped a few of them, and only a few teams have been equipped with them.
.There was an inexplicable bombardment a few days ago, and a whole fleet of Type 97 heavy bombers had already set off firecrackers.
With the newly transferred heavy bombers from this team, Teramoto Kumaichi no longer dares to take this risk. If these precious bombers that the Army has always been proud of are lost again, the Army Ministry will not be able to spare him. Even Umezu
The general may not be able to shoulder this responsibility.
And not only the aircraft, but also these well-trained pilots are the eyeballs of the Army Ministry. If the losses are too large, Lieutenant General Tojo, the former military police commander of the Kwantung Army and the current Army Aviation Director, will have to remove himself from his post.
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He, General Umezu Yoshijiro, has nothing to do with himself, and he can stand and talk without hurting his back. He, Teramoto Kumaichi, cannot let General Umezu do whatever he wants. The Kwantung Army only has a few heavy bomber teams, and if they are all lost, who will take the responsibility? So let him do it.
No matter how urged by General Umezu Yoshijiro, Lieutenant General Teramoto refused to follow his orders to carry out night flight bombing.
Because Lieutenant General Teramoto was too cautious, even though the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese army brought considerable inconvenience to Yang Zhen, it could not completely prevent Yang Zhen from mobilizing troops. As late as August 29, Yang Zhen
Each unit has arrived at their respective combat areas and was fully deployed before the Japanese attack was launched.
The punctual Japanese army, in accordance with the established battle plan on the morning of September 1st, forced a crossing of the Songhua River at seven o'clock under the cover of fierce artillery fire from the south bank and the cover of more than a dozen aircraft. In order to implement this forced crossing, in the shortest possible time,
To defeat the defenders in Jiangbei, the Japanese army concentrated a large number of pontoon troops, transporting a regiment of troops in the first wave.
What puzzled General Yoshijiro Umezu, who came to the north of the Songhua River to command the forced crossing, was that the opponent did not make any defense against the natural danger of the Songhua River. The 89th Regiment of the 24th Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi as the vanguard, was not encountered.
Facing any resistance, they boarded the north bank of the Songhua River.
The success of the first battle made General Umezu Yoshijiro, who was cautious by nature, suddenly regain his composure. He ordered the Eighty-ninth Regiment Wada Takashi and Colonel not to stay, and swept all the way to the north bank. At the same time, he terminated the Puppet Manchukuo Army Jing'an except for the second echelon.
In addition to the division crossing the river and cooperating with the 89th Regiment's sweep of the north bank, Colonel Kahei Nochi of the 32nd Regiment of the third echelon immediately stopped crossing the river and assembled in the south of the Yangtze River on standby.
Just when everyone in the 24th Division was wondering why the Commander-in-Chief issued such a strange order, and watching the 89th Regiment and the Jing'an Division of the Puppet Manchukuo Army moving further and further away, intensive artillery fire suddenly rang out from Jiangbei.
A hail of bullets consisting of intensive blasting anti-personnel grenades with a caliber of at least 150 mm and a strange artillery shell with long fireworks on its tail suddenly exploded above the head of the 32nd Regiment gathered on the riverside.
.The dense rain of bullets completely covered the gathering place of the 32nd Regiment.
Originally, we saw that the 89th Regiment did not encounter any resistance when crossing the river, and it went very smoothly. However, the 32nd Regiment, which was a little careless and had almost no precautions, suffered heavy casualties from this sudden shelling. Especially the tail type.
The strange artillery shells trailing long fireworks were extremely lethal, and the rate of fire could be said to be extremely fast. Apart from the whooshing sound of the artillery shells streaking across the sky, there was almost no loud sound when the artillery fired.
Just when the 32nd Regiment encountered intensive artillery fire, the 89th Regiment and the Jing'an Division, which had always been described as unobstructed, also heard intensive gunfire and heavy fire at the same time.
Explosion.
Before Umezu Yoshijiro could recover from the sudden blow, the dozen or so planes in the sky that had been dive-bombing and strafing without restraint suddenly suddenly had a few planes covered in fire and fell to the ground. Use your own practice
Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Seeing that several friendly aircraft were shot down in the blink of an eye, the remaining Japanese aircraft changed their previous arrogant attitude and did not dare to fly almost touching the treetops like before. They immediately climbed up as fast as possible.
.But when they turned around and carefully turned back to the battlefield, they did not find anything strange on the ground. The anti-aircraft firepower that had just been directed at them was almost as if it did not exist.
Although they did not find out what actually shot down their friendly aircraft, when these Japanese aircraft bombed the ground again, they did not dare to use high-precision dive bombing.
Not suitable for horizontal bombing under tactical conditions.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who realized that the situation was not right, immediately ordered the combat staff around him: "Tell Lieutenant General Teramoto to have his aviation force find those gangster artillery pieces for me at all costs and kill them. Order Watana Takashi and Colonel to immediately report what happened to them.
What kind of resistance was encountered? The opponent’s strength and firepower configuration.”
This was the first time they had come into contact with Yang Zhen's subordinates. They didn't know the reality of the opponent. Under the firepower of the opponent, Takashi Watana and the colonel, who had used the puppet Manchu army as scapegoats, received an order from General Umezu Meijiro to report the enemy's situation.
, replied immediately without any ambiguity: "We at least encountered tough fire attacks from opponents equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, mortars, and infantry artillery. According to the standards of previous battles with the Kwanai China Army, the Eighty-ninth Alliance encountered at least
It has the strength of an army or even more."
General Umezu Yoshijiro frowned in response to the report from Wada Takashi and Colonel. He simply did not believe that his opponent would put his main force in front of him. His opponent was not an idiot, and he did not have an advantage in both military strength and firepower.
, put eggs in one basket.
General Umezu Yoshijiro, who did not believe what Takashi Wada and Colonel reported, immediately ordered Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi, the commander of the 24th Division who had already crossed the Songhua River, to go to the 89th Regiment's position in person to find out the truth.
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