Compared with the relatively small Xi'an Field Airport, Hailong Airport, one of the most important second-line permanent airports of the Kwantung Army, has better storage conditions and living conditions than Xi'an Airport. Therefore, the Army Aviation bomber group parked here is originally
It's just that there are a lot of them.
After Xinjing became a battlefield, most of the fighter jets originally deployed around Xinjing, except for those around Siping Street, were concentrated at Hailong Airport. Before being attacked by the enemy, Hailong Airport had become a storage facility for the Kwantung Army.
An airport with the largest number of combat aircraft.
And because the legs are short and the combat range is limited, we can only use Siping Street as the starting base for the fighter group. The combat aircraft using this as the starting base are almost all bomber groups that are crucial to this bombing. In
Under such circumstances, the loss caused by a sneak attack by the enemy can be imagined.
After this war, the entire Army's aviation fleet was mobilized to Manchuria. Except for some bombers based at Fengtian Airport and Xi'an Airport, mainly the latest Type 100 bombers, the remaining Type 97 heavy bombers and Italian bombers survived.
This group, together with the Type 98 and Type 97 light bomber groups, can be said to have been completely destroyed.
What is even more serious is that after this battle, among the surviving aviation groups of the Army, considerable conflicts arose within themselves, and there was considerable distrust among each other. Currently, the aviation groups that have retreated to Fengtian and Fushun
Each aviation team, in a rare and explicit refusal to continue fighting.
There are also some aviation teams that have proposed that at least the dozen or so troublemaking aircraft, which are not known to be enemy or friendly aircraft, will not take off for combat before they are destroyed. Because they do not know that they will merge in the air.
Are those aircraft that are exactly the same as ours enemies or friends?
After this battle, the only remaining Army Air Forces were the Type 99 light bombers, the Type 99 light bombers, the Type 100 bombers, and the Type 97 bombers. They were no longer able to continue carrying out bombing missions. Just this morning,
The base camp has received a call, ordering all remaining bomber groups to withdraw to Peiping to rest and be on standby. In a word, the Army Aviation Force can no longer support it.
As for his naval aviation, because its base was in North Korea outside of Manchuria, and because no navy aircraft had been captured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it was unable to adopt a similar attack method. In this air attack, although 20 aircraft were lost,
Multiple Type 96 bombers, Type 1 heavy bombers, and more than 40 Zero fighters.
Although the number of losses in the old-fashioned Type 96 ship battle was relatively large, the most critical forces in the southward battle, the Zero War and the Type 96 heavy bombing group, were basically preserved. Although it cannot be said that there were no losses, it was still compared with the Type 96 heavy bombing group.
Compared with the cost of almost annihilating the army, it is already so light that it can almost be ignored.
And despite paying a certain price, the Navy has also adapted the tactics of cooperation between new bombers and new fighter groups. The most important thing is that through this bombing, the Navy has further mastered the ability to accurately bomb fixed-point targets. It is necessary to
You know, the only few successful breakthroughs were achieved by navy bombers. Those idiots in their army don't have that ability.
When the Kwantung Army made a plan to involve the Navy, the Navy clearly expressed its opposition. Only with the coordination of the base camp, it had no choice but to send part of the aviation team to participate in the war. However, although this force was sent, the Army
The navy was very dissatisfied with his tyrannical attitude.
In particular, the mobilization of the Zero Combat and Type 1 heavy bomber groups is tantamount to having a heart and soul taken away from the Navy. Everyone in the entire naval aviation force is angry at this order. These aircraft are the navy's treasures in dealing with the American and British aviation forces in the future. If
The losses this time were too great. What could the navy do to compete with the more powerful American and British aviation forces?
Although participating in this battle can allow the naval aviation force to become familiar with as many American-made fighter jets as possible. However, if the losses in the battle are too large, it will undoubtedly be a very unpleasant thing for the navy, which is currently preparing to go south. This is also the case for the navy.
The reason why half of the troops were withdrawn halfway was that the Navy did not want to suffer too much loss in order to take advantage of the Army's fire.
The reason why we didn't all evacuate was because of the order from the base camp. If we left half of it, we would already be giving face to the Army. Why should you let the Navy take the blame for the Kwantung Army? So everyone in the Navy is very concerned about this operation.
He was dissatisfied. Now that the Kwantung Army had failed to defeat the tiger, he himself was suffering from hemiplegia. It was strange for him, a naval officer, to rejoice in his misfortune.
The most important thing is that the Army Air Force is now unable to support operations, and the remaining force is preparing to withdraw to the mainland of China for rest and recuperation. The Naval Air Force, which was forced to serve as a strong man, has reached the point where it can withdraw. The Navy has no obligation.
It is even more inappropriate for the Army to continue to do this thankless job for the Navy and to take the blame for them.
Onishi Takijiro's gloating look in his eyes, if normal, would have offended the Kwantung Army's public anger. Maybe, he might be in danger of being beaten. But at this time, most people either don't have time to tangle with him.
I have no time to think about quarreling with this different guy in the navy anymore. I can’t cover my butt, so why do I still have time to talk nonsense with him?
In contrast to Major General Onishi Takijiro's gloating, another person who attended the combat meeting was the only one among all the officers who participated in the meeting who was not part of the Kwantung Army and the only Japanese paratrooper brigade commander at the brigade commander level.
Although he did not express his position, in fact it was not his turn as an outsider to express his position. However, the angry look in his eyes revealed that he was quite unhappy at this time.
Don't blame the colonel for being angry. He actually thought that the Kwantung Army had gone too far. Tongliao City was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and not a single army division could withstand the enemy's attack. But he insisted on killing him under such circumstances.
The 1st Paratrooper Regiment, which was painstakingly managed and served as the seed unit for future army paratroopers, was airdropped into Tongliao City, which was not suitable for paratrooper operations.
Although his First Parachute Regiment is the seed unit of the entire Japanese Army's paratroopers, its total strength is currently only more than 700 people. It's hard to imagine what role 700 people can play when facing tens of thousands of well-equipped enemy troops.
However, under the insistence of the Kwantung Army to use chicken feathers from the base camp as command arrows, he had no choice but to accept this combat order that he believed was not in line with conventional orders at all.
As a result, the First Paratrooper Regiment, which he had always regarded as a treasure, was abandoned by the Kwantung Army in Tongliao City without even a fight after being thrown into the battlefield of Tongliao. The Kwantung Army did not even apologize.
How could this not make him extremely angry?
The base camp transferred the 1st Paratrooper Regiment to Manchuria in order to gain practical experience and prepare for the future southward operations. It was not for the 1st Paratrooper Regiment, these paratroopers trained with painstaking efforts, to die. But this paratrooper
The troops were regarded as surprise troops by the Kwantung Army and were directly buried in Tongliao City.
This loss, especially the loss of those who were the seed personnel for the expansion of paratrooper preparations, is undoubtedly quite huge for the just-started Japanese Army Paratrooper Force. For him, the brigade commander, it can only be described as excruciating. If you are not from Kanto,
Commander-in-Chief, he even had the urge to challenge the guy who sent his paratroopers to a dead end.
However, except for the senior staff officers who are used to seeing generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals, and who don't take this colonel who is not higher than them at all, the rest are at least a major general. Almost no one here
What is the key point to pay attention to this commander with an extremely angry look in his eyes?
Even if someone accidentally saw his surprisingly angry eyes, they pretended not to see it. Everyone was waiting for the final decision made by General Umezu Yoshijiro. Although the general had not said a word since entering the conference room.
Fa, just quietly listening to the quarrel between the two parties.
Just because General Umezu Yoshijiro didn't speak, it didn't mean that Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo on the side would let him go because of his silence. This person who came with the mission to supervise the operations of the Kwantung Army was attached to the General Staff Headquarters, facing the current situation.
The war situation is almost ruined, and I am quite dissatisfied.
Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo believed that he and Major General Tanaka Shinichi risked offending the narrow-minded Minister of War and being kicked out of active service, and allocated two divisions to the Kwantung Army in violation of orders. The base camp was also allocated at any cost.
, a large number of aviation forces have suffered heavy losses today. It can be said that the base camp and itself have done what we should and should not do, but what is the promised result?
The plan to bomb the Songhua River embankment and use water to replace troops did not achieve the expected results at all under the crazy blockage of the enemy's ground and air firepower. The aviation force paid a heavy price and barely opened a few gaps, which was enough to create a
It was blocked before the flood.
On the ground, the 23rd Division was not rescued, and the 14th Division was completely thrown in. The 7th Division also inexplicably became an empty frame. The three regiment captains, together with the division commander and chief of staff,
No one could come back alive. The strength of a division was less than one-tenth of what it had before departure.
Among the officers and soldiers of the 7th Division who escaped, only one of the rank-and-file majors escaped, with only one arm left. All lieutenant-level officers added together were less than 30. The most important thing is that the seventh
No one can explain why the division was defeated so quickly in Alhorqin Banner.
The only second lieutenant officer who escaped from the front line of Bala Qirud was already insane. He was talking nonsense like the overwhelming wall of fire, and could not ask anything else. When this man as Bala Qirud
The only witness of the German World War I was sent to the Kwantung Army Headquarters before the Sixth Army Headquarters mysteriously lost contact.
Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Seiichi, who was originally going to interrogate him in person, only met him once, so he had him secretly shot, and then avenged him to die in battle. In Yoshimoto Seiichi's view, this second lieutenant had lost his normal self.
thinking and the dignity of an imperial officer. Death was a relief for him.
Although Yoshimoto Teiichi did something that made people feel that way, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo thought that what he did was very appropriate. Letting this guy live will distract the military and affect morale. Moreover, this person is useless alive.
Well, it would be better to die than live like this, and the family can still get some compensation.
The 7th Division was almost completely destroyed, and its death was unknown. Now there is also a Sixth Army Headquarters, and a Lieutenant General Commander whose life or death is unknown. No matter what Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was like.
Greedy and rude, no matter how annoying he is, he is still a first-level military commander of the empire.
Let alone corps commanders, commanders at the division commander level had never been killed or captured before last year. Even in the Russo-Japanese War, which suffered huge sacrifices, such a situation never happened.
Regardless of whether the army commander was captured or killed in action, he set a record for the Imperial Army since the Meiji Restoration.