After a small-scale, not too fierce naval and air battle, the aviation force participating in the Anti-Japanese War sank the Japanese army at the cost of nine aircraft being shot down by escort ships and six Kwantung Army fighter jets that subsequently rushed over from Qinhuangdao.
There are eleven troop transport ships in the fleet, as well as a Japanese naval escort coastal defense ship.
When the division disembarked from Tanggu Port and set off from Nagasaki with a mighty fleet of fully-manned divisions, there was only less than a regiment of troops left, and almost all the heavy weapons were left.
The losses were even more serious. The headquarters of the division, including their lieutenant general division commander, all became the sons-in-law of the Bohai Dragon King in the Bohai Bay.
The Japanese garrison stationed in Tanggu, which no longer had any aviation forces on the Beiping-Tianjin front, could only watch helplessly as the troop transport ships within their sight were bombed and sunk one by one like targets. If they were not for the Anti-Alliance
The aviation force is just a fledgling force when it comes to attacking ships, and I am afraid that the few remaining troop carriers will not escape disaster.
The Japanese base camp did not expect that the aviation force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance already had the ability to attack ships. In addition, the fleet passing through the Korean coast and the Laotieshan Waterway in the Liaodong Peninsula was almost under the strict control of the Japanese navy. Although there are also U.S. submarines that often appear,
But the number is not large. Therefore, the Japanese Navy is quite confident in the safety of the entire trip.
Not only did they not arrange too many escort ships, but they also did not dispatch naval ships stationed in Tianjin and Qinhuangdao to escort. Of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the main force of Japanese naval ships are concentrated in the Southwest Pacific battlefield, and there are not many ships available in the mainland.
big relationship.
After most of the troops of an entire division were sent to the bottom of the sea without firing a shot, the Japanese base camp immediately terminated the sea route and reinforced the Pingjin battlefield. For the Japanese base camp, not only could it not afford to lose soldiers, but at the moment
Even the troop transport ships cannot afford to be lost.
Although there is a lack of aerial torpedoes, aerial bombs can still deal with Japanese warships. Especially when faced with unarmed and armored troop carriers, the lethality of these aerial bombs is equally astonishing. What's more, the anti-alliance bomber groups cooperate with each other as soon as they are dispatched.
In addition to aircraft attacking troop carriers, there were also aircraft specifically designed to suppress the Japanese escort ships, which were already scarce.
Although the base camp suffered heavy losses, it believed that the Chinese battlefield must not be lost, and North China and the Ping-Tianjin front line could not be lost. However, it stopped reinforcements from the mainland to the Chinese battlefield, and only continued to urge China to dispatch troops at all costs.
Increase troops to ensure the security of Pingjin and Jizhong.
The base camp believes that on the Central and East China fronts, sufficient troops can still be squeezed out by appropriately shrinking and giving up some occupied areas. If the occupied areas are temporarily given to Chongqing, they can be taken back at any time. If they are lost to North China, they can be taken back at any time.
And the communist army in the Northeast, then there is really no way to get it back.
In addition to ensuring the north-south transportation artery along Jinpu Road, the east-west transportation artery along the Yangtze River in the occupied areas, and the richest areas in China such as southern Jiangsu and Hangzhou, in order to maintain the Japanese army's strategy of supporting war with war, the base camp believes that when necessary, China
Dispatch troops can give up some secondary occupied areas.
This can free up some troops to compete with the enemy for the line between North China and Pingjin. The base camp believes that the Hebei region must not be lost. If Hebei is lost, not only will the Jinpu railway line be cut off, but an important grain and cotton production area will be lost. Even Shandong and Henan will be lost.
It will also be difficult to defend the occupied areas such as the East, and the Shanxi battlefield will become a lone army with abandoned sons. There is absolutely no room for loss in the North China battlefield.
While desperately urging the Chinese dispatched troops to mobilize reinforcements, the base camp is also urging the Kwantung Army to increase its investment in the Northeast battlefield. It will attract as many anti-Union troops as possible from North China back to the Northeast. The base camp believes that the Northeast is for the Anti-Union.
The fundamental point is that once the situation in Northeast China becomes critical, the enemy will inevitably return massive reinforcements.
As long as the Anti-Japanese Alliance withdraws to the Northeast, even part of it, the remaining issues in North China will be easy to solve. The base camp really did not expect that the Anti-Japanese Alliance's territory and troops in the northeast corner would dare to fight on multiple fronts and penetrate into the North China battlefield on such a large scale.
This created a certain degree of passivity for the Japanese military headquarters.
Otherwise, after receiving the news that the Northeastern Communist Army had entered the customs, we would not have insisted on the Chinese dispatched troops to launch the Changde Battle. As a result, when the battle actually started and the scale was beyond the expectations of the Japanese base camp, the Chinese dispatched troops, who fought on multiple fronts, raised funds.
The reinforcements took a lot of thought.
In fact, there is no need to issue this order from the base camp. As soon as the North China battlefield started, the Chinese Expeditionary Forces Command has been paying close attention to it. It is just that the main force of the Japanese army in Central and East China was trapped in the Changde battlefield and could not be withdrawn for a while. After completing the capture of Changde,
The Chinese dispatched troops immediately mobilized back all the troops that participated in the Changde Battle.
After withdrawing to their original base, they immediately selected the divisions whose bases were closest to the Jizhong battlefield and went north for reinforcements before they had time to replenish themselves. Although the Japanese army moved very quickly, after all, the development of the battle situation could not give them too much time. That day
When the military reinforcements arrived, Du Kaishan and Chen Hanzhang had already met at the river, and the last gap in the entire encirclement had been firmly sealed.
However, with the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, from Cangzhou in the east to Baoding in the west, a bloody battle of unprecedented scale officially kicked off. What really kicked off this bloody battle was the fierce fighting between the two sides on the battlefield in central Hebei.
Air combat. With the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, a large number of aviation units mobilized by the Japanese army from the mainland, South China, and Central China also arrived around the Jizhong battlefield.
While the cavalry brigade of the Western Cluster was fighting fiercely with the Japanese First Tank Brigade between Wangdu and Baoding, the first batch of aviation troops mobilized by the Japanese army also appeared on the battlefield in central Hebei. However, the Anti-Japanese Alliance
The intensive ground firepower did not give the Japanese vanguard, which had not many bombers, too many opportunities for sneak attacks.
It was just that the fighter planes were fleeting. After all the Japanese aircraft participating in the war were in place, the anti-alliance aviation forces had also completed the final preparations and began to enter the Jizhong battlefield one after another. This directly eliminated the Japanese army's reliance on aviation and contained the anti-alliance armored clusters.
There is an idea of the next offensive.
As combat aircraft from both sides arrived one after another, a large-scale air battle broke out over the Jizhong Plain. In order to compete for air supremacy in the Jizhong Theater, the Japanese army invested the main force of the Third Flying Division of its aviation force in China. The total number of combat aircraft
Reaching more than 300 aircraft.
Its operations were extremely active. As soon as it arrived in the war zone, it took advantage of its long range and took off from Xingtai, Anyang Airport, and even Jinan Airport to enter the battlefield. At the same time, the combat cluster mobilized from Taiwan by the Japanese base camp also increased over time.
Arriving gradually.
Facing the large number of fighter planes invested by the Japanese army, the Jixi Group of the Anti-Japanese Alliance Air Force, which had completed all combat preparations, was mobilized in full force. Both sides dispatched a large number of fighter planes every day, and fierce air battles took place in the sky above the line from Baoding to Cangzhou. The bomber groups of both sides,
They also mobilized desperately to cover the attack of their respective ground troops.
The Yak-9 fighter jets and P-40 fighter jets dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance took the lead in the air battle with the Japanese Type 1 and Type 3 fighter jets, which kicked off the bloody battle in central Hebei. The main force of the Japanese Army Air Force's 3rd Flying Division was dispatched to fight against the Japanese Army.
The coalition's fighter groups also took off from several field airports in Cha'nan and western Hebei to fight.
In the somewhat hazy sky in Jizhong in winter, dense gunfire sounds continued to be heard. Fighter groups from both sides continued to roll over Jizhong, fighting. From time to time, downed aircraft fell from the sky with black smoke.
Come down. In the sky, an umbrella flower floats from time to time.
The people on the ground were far more curious than afraid when facing this aerial battle. Of course, except for the downed plane that destroyed their houses and farmland when it crashed, most people were dissatisfied.
The mentality of watching the excitement is still very strong.
On the ground below the daily air battle battlefield, ordinary people from ten miles and eight villages in the surrounding area are looking up to watch the fierce battle in the sky. On the ground below, on the houses and trees, there are people everywhere stretching their necks and looking up. As for the original tunnel
No matter how much local cadres persuaded the converted air-raid shelters, no one went in to hide.
Are you kidding me? I couldn't see such beautiful things in the past. Now it's happening around me. There is no shop like this after passing this village. Anyway, we fight in the sky, and we don't go down to the ground to fight.
There's nothing dangerous about it. What's the point of hiding in the tunnel, when you can see something so wonderful, something even more beautiful than singing a big show?
We have to admire the Chinese people's mentality of watching the excitement. In many places, ordinary people even traveled dozens of miles to the war zone to watch the battle. In order to prevent these ordinary people watching the excitement from being harmed, the Jizhong left-behind troops who cooperated with the anti-union operations had to send out troops every day.
Someone comes to disperse these spectators.
The two types of fighter jets that the Japanese army put into the battlefield are naturally familiar to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. In order to compete with the two types of fighter jets of the Japanese army, especially the excellent Type III fighter jets for air supremacy, the Anti-Japanese Alliance will use the Yak-9 with the best performance among the fighter jets currently equipped by the Anti-Japanese Army.
All fighter jets were used on the Jizhong battlefield.
Although the Yak-9 fighter has shorter legs than the Japanese fighter jets, it has excellent mid- and low-altitude combat performance, which makes the Japanese one-type fighter suffer a great loss. At the same time, the Soviet-made fighter jets are excellent in taking off and landing at airstrips, and are very sensitive to airport conditions.
Their super adaptability allows these aircraft to take off directly from field airports in the mountainous areas of western Hebei.
Not only has the combat radius been greatly shortened, but also the time in the air has been significantly increased. The pilots transferred to the Jizhong battlefield are all Anti-Alliance pilots who have been tested by the continuous air battles in Northeast China in 2002 and the first half of 2003. Moreover, they are targeted at
Japanese Army combat aircraft have also developed a set of effective tactics.
A large number of mature anti-alliance pilots have experienced the test of war. Their performance in the air is even better than that of the Japanese Army Aviation Corps, which can no longer be trained according to the elite model in the past. Both technical and tactical levels and air combat capabilities have declined significantly.
On the first day of the battle, they took advantage of each other.
Compared with the increasingly mature aviation force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, with the increase in the intensity of the Anti-Japanese Army's bombing campaign, most of the elite Japanese Army Aviation Forces have been transferred back to the country to participate in local air defense operations. Among the pilots who have joined the flying team on the Chinese battlefield,
Rookies who have just left school and have not been tested in actual combat account for a large part.
The experience of the pilots was not bad, and the performance of the aircraft was basically equal. In addition, the American P-40K fighter jets taking off from Chanan adopted high-altitude dive tactics. After a day of air combat, the Japanese army outnumbered 31 aircraft to 19 aircraft.
The exchange ratio of the racks is obviously a big loss.
Moreover, this air battle that took place over the Jizhong Plain was even more unfavorable for the Japanese army. Once the plane was shot down, it meant that unless special circumstances occurred, the pilot would be a permanent loss. That is,
If the Japanese army shot down a plane, they basically lost all their money. Most of the downed pilots of the Anti-Japanese Alliance were rescued, but the Japanese army was unable to make up for this loss.