Chapter two hundred and forty-eight Umezu Mijiro jumping over the wall
Moreover, the reason why the Kwantung Army and Umezu Yoshijiro, who have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, adjusted the current active attack and changed to passive defense tactics was insufficient troops and supplies. In the final analysis, it was the performance of Yang Zhen's troops since their emergence.
Strong combat effectiveness and tenacious fighting style.【.Com text】
Since the first phase of the clearing campaign began, Umezu Yoshijiro must read every battle report from the front. He accurately judged from the previous battles sent back from the front that although the number of this unit was not as large as that of the Chinese government troops in the pass, as well as the
*guerrillas.
However, both the equipment and the level of training are far higher than any army the empire has ever encountered on the battlefield in China. Its level of infantry and artillery coordination and the degree of cooperation between various services and arms have reached an extremely skilled level. At least no less.
It is the most elite and best-equipped training corps of all German weapons in the Chinese government.
Whether in offense or passive defense, its technical and tactical level has reached a very high level. It is especially good at mountain combat and the use of mines. Although there is still a certain gap compared with the Japanese standing divisions, this kind of
The gap is rapidly shortening.
Its firm will to fight, especially its strong spirit of proactive attack, is far from being comparable to that of the Kwannai China government army. Even when the casualty rate of the troops reaches 70%, they can still maintain the stability of the troops and prevent collapse. This is even with the
The Imperial Army, which has always been known to be tenacious, is not inferior in comparison.
It is for this reason that Umezu Yoshijiro acquiesced to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru to strengthen the firepower of the Fourth Division's troops heading north to Renjiangkou to an abnormal level. He even added additional troops from the newly replenished Muleng Heavy Artillery Regiment.
The Dongning Heavy Artillery Regiment mobilized some heavy artillery for it.
According to Umezu Yoshijiro, in order to wipe out this anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed force, the Kwantung Army must mobilize at least three to four standing divisions reinforced with heavy artillery, tanks, and aviation. However, the Kwantung Army, which is currently stretched thin, cannot
Bring out these troops.
When this force was still weak, General Ueda Kenkichi failed to do his best, but instead gave his opponents the opportunity to develop and grow. Now, for the Kwantung Army, which has lost the best opportunity to destroy it, it has become a difficult task to destroy this force again.
The largest and most well-trained anti-Manchu armed forces in Manchuria would probably consume a lot of energy and troops.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who finally figured out the number of weapons in the secret warehouse of Mount Gunce that Kenkichi Ueda had thrown away, secretly scolded his ex for the first time in his heart. If he hadn't thrown away Mount Gunce in a confused way.
This is the largest secret warehouse of the Kwantung Army. Why is the Kwantung Army so passive now? It doesn't even dare to open the cannonballs.
After the opponent obtained this large number of troops, his strength has developed to the point that no army can be underestimated. An army of tens of thousands has hundreds of wild cannons, hundreds of mortars, and even a hundred
Fifty-mm heavy howitzers, you must know that the Chinese government forces in the pass do not have this level of equipment. The Chinese government forces have millions of troops, but they only have forty-eight German-made 150 mm howitzers.
Just when Umezu Yoshijiro was about to further explain his plan to Yamashita Fengfumi, an urgent telegram was sent from Jiamusi, not from the air force that was ordered to send a plane to Jiamusi to pick up Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru.
Instantly petrified.
Yamashita Hobumi watched as Umezu Yoshijiro remained silent for a long time after reading the telegram, but his face was extremely pale, indicating that he knew that something big had happened. It was only after he received the telegram that he found out that the plane sent by Umezu Yoshijiro was...
During the takeoff from Jiamusi, we encountered a sudden attack from the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower.
The plane that was selected to pick up Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru was shot down on the spot. Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru and the Chief of Staff of the Fourth Division were also killed when the plane exploded. The fighter planes that were responsible for the cover even more
As many as six were shot down.
Looking at the report sent by the aviation force, Umezu Yoshijiro was silent for a long time, and Yamashita Tomofumi looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The first army commander killed on the battlefield since the formation of the Japanese army finally appeared, although he had not yet
Officially took office.
However, compared to Yamashita Tomofumi who felt a sense of sadness because of the death of Sawada Shigeru, Umezu Yoshijiro was extremely upset after learning that his plan failed, and secretly sighed that he still underestimated all the encounters he had encountered on the battlefield since he was in the army.
His strongest opponent. Compared to the death of Sawada Shigeru, he was more worried about whether his next hunger tactic would be effective after his opponent obtained a large amount of supplies hoarded in Jiamusi.
As the youngest general in the Japanese army outside of the imperial family, Umezu Yoshijiro was able to rise from a poor peasant family to where he is today and top the Army University. Naturally, he is not a simple figure. In fact, he has been taught by school teachers since he was a child.
He is rated as smart, and not ordinary smart. He always knows what he wants and what his opponents want.
He did not simply give an order to send out only one plane to take the risk to Jiamusi, which was already under heavy artillery fire, to pick up Lieutenant General Zetian Shigeru. Because he knew that sending a single plane to Jiamusi, which is not a large urban area, would be detrimental to both the enemy and ourselves.
The straight-line distance between the two sides is extremely close. It can be said that they are fighting under the eyes of the other side. The most important thing is that the Japanese troops in Jiamusi City no longer have depth to rely on. It is a bit too conspicuous and dangerous.
When facing a single aircraft, the opponent can calmly deploy an air defense fire network. Even organizing heavy machine gun fire in the air may shoot down the aircraft that may have no cover. Although he, Umezu Yoshijiro, was not there
He had served in the Army Aviation Corps, but his deputy chief of staff, Major General Saburo Endo, had a true aviation background.
At the suggestion of Saburo Endo, Umezu Yoshijiro ordered all the bombers that could be dispatched in the Kwantung Army's aviation force stationed in northern Manchuria to send out all the munitions warehouses in Jiamusi and the gathering areas for new recruits of the Puppet Manchukuo to carry out carpet bombing, destroying the weapons captured by the opponents.
Along with all the supplies, they also covered the plane that was assisting Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru.
It's just that hundreds of aircraft assembled at Jiamusi Airport earlier were completely blown up by the enemy's night attack on the airport, and all air crews were killed and wounded. Coupled with the time, the aviation forces stationed in southern Manchuria and Western Manchuria could not at all
There was no time to assemble, and the number of aircraft the Kwantung Army could take off to participate in the bombing was really limited.
Even including the fighter jets and reconnaissance planes that temporarily replaced bombers with bombs attached, there were only more than 30 of them. And more than 20 of them were fighter jets that had been temporarily rerouted.
Except for the four Type 97 bombers that took off from Harbin Airport, only six of the heavy bombers survived before. Because of their poor quality, they were called horse dung eggs by the Army Air Force, meaning they were shiny on the outside but terrible on the inside.
br20 bomber.
There is no way, the Kwantung Army's aviation force is now at its weakest. Not counting the hundreds of aircraft lost in the Battle of Nomenhan, the Jiamusi Airport was shelled once, a night attack, and God's fault at the end of August.
The sudden flood that opened our eyes brought a nearly devastating blow to the Kwantung Army aviation force.
Aircraft are barely a trivial matter, and can be supplemented to some extent. After all, the Japanese army has a relatively strong aviation industry and can manufacture most of its own aircraft. As long as it is not long-term wear and tear, the loss of hundreds of aircraft in one battle is still
You can afford it. Although the replenishment speed may be slower, there will still be replenishment after all, right?
Compared with the loss of aircraft, the most distressing thing for the Kwantung Army was an air battle. Two attacks almost wiped out all the excellent pilots of the Kwantung Army. With the replacement of pilots equally slow, the Kwantung Army can now
It is said that there is a shortage of both man and machine. In desperation, we can only use fighter jets to carry bombs, which is not our job.
When the Jiamusi Airport was attacked twice, because the opponent had no aviation force and almost no fighter fleets were dispatched, the losses of pilots and aircraft were minimal. Now only the fighter fleet can send a large number of aircraft to participate in the battle, despite ground attacks
For them, it turns out that it has always been a side job that is not their real job.
As the commander of the Kwantung Army, he still knows how much supplies there are in Jiamusi now. It doesn't matter if the ammunition arrives, but the winter clothes stored there to replace the entire Northeast full garrison, as well as a large amount of food, are strategic supplies that the opponent urgently needs. And these are the only ones that are needed.
Only if the supplies do not fall into the hands of the other party can his next blockade plan be effective. As for whether the bombing will cause civilian casualties, this is not among his considerations.
Not only did some eager Umezu Yoshijiro not consider the casualties such bombing would bring to civilians, but Umezu Yoshijiro also had in mind the indiscriminate bombing of the opponent's occupied areas, killing and injuring the people in the area under his control, and damaging the opponent's overall morale.
As well as the idea of damaging public sentiment and weakening its potential for subsequent development.
Umezu Yoshijiro's idea of scooping up the supplies captured by Yang Zhen while picking up Sawada Shigeru was a good idea. But whether this idea can be implemented depends on whether Yang Zhen gives him the opportunity.
Yang Zhen had already been mentally prepared for Umezu Yoshijiro's idea of mobilizing aviation troops to blow up the lost materials based on the principle that if I lose it, I can't let you get it.
Considering that he had no air superiority, after the First Brigade entered Jiamusi and generally controlled the situation, the first thing Yang Zhen did was to immediately transport the materials from various warehouses in the city out of the city. But
It would be so easy to transport all these piles of supplies out of the city at once.
Fortunately, due to transportation problems, most of the Japanese army's warehouses, except for ammunition depots, were concentrated along the railway line. In addition, more than 20,000 laborers were rescued, as well as more than 20,000 puppet Manchus captured in the north of Jiamusi City.
The army recruits worked as laborers and used the captured trains. Before the Japanese planes arrived, all but one of the several munitions warehouses had been emptied.
It's just that things were a little too hasty. The materials moved out of the city couldn't find a suitable place to put them, and they couldn't all be transported across the river in a short time. These materials could only be transported out of the city and found a relatively hidden place nearby along the railway line.
Area storage. Suddenly outside Jiamusi City, anywhere covered with vegetation along both sides of the railway line, there were piles of winter clothing, gasoline barrels, ammunition boxes, medical equipment and other military supplies everywhere.
Yang Zhen, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, took the initiative and had sufficient labor force. The most important thing was that Jiamusi Airport had fallen, and the Japanese aircraft participating in the air raid could only take off from Harbin, Mudanjiang and other areas, thus fighting for Yang Zhen in disguise.
It took a lot of time and the temporary fighter pilot was not skilled in ground attack, so most of the bombs missed the target, so Umezu Yoshijiro's idea of letting Yang Zhen return empty-handed finally came to nothing.
However, although the loss of supplies during the bombing was not great, only one warehouse that had been 80% shipped out was blown up. However, the residents of Jiamusi suffered a lot of casualties from the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese army. Those who threw
Eighty percent of the deflected bombs fell into residential areas.
The reason for causing such huge casualties to the people of Jiamusi is that the entire Jiamusi, except for the air-raid shelters where the Japanese troops were stationed, let alone the air-raid shelters. Except for their own houses, there is not even a place to cover when a gap comes. And this
At that time, the Chinese people were very unfamiliar with things like airplanes, especially the people in Jiamusi who had never been bombed. They did not know how to protect themselves from enemy air attacks, nor did they know how to avoid Japanese aircraft.
Looking at the civilians who suffered heavy casualties from the bombing, Yang Zhen could do nothing even if he was filled with righteous indignation. When Wang Guangyu trapped Zetian Shigeru at the headquarters of the Fourth Division, in order to prevent the Japanese retaliatory air raids and to avoid injuries during the fierce battle between the two sides,
And innocent. Yang Zhen had planned to temporarily move the situation in Jiamusi out of the city for one or two days as soon as possible.
At least he returned to the city after he had dealt with the rest of the Fourth Division, which was now a trapped beast and could only rely on the Fourth Division's headquarters to resist. Unfortunately, Yang Zhen's words were almost worn out, except for a very few people.
Most people are still stranded in the city.
Since the people in the city were quite uncooperative and his own air defense firepower was limited, Yang Zhen was worried about whether the people in Jiamusi would suffer any casualties. In order to ensure the safety of the people in the city, Yang Zhen could only deploy as much air defense as possible
Troops were deployed in the city to try to prevent Japanese air raids.
The power of the twelve 20mm anti-aircraft guns that were barely scraped together and the six 20mm anti-aircraft guns was really limited. Although these temporarily deployed air defense troops had fought hard for many times, the people in the city were overwhelmed by the unscrupulous Japanese aircraft that bombed them indiscriminately.
, still suffering heavy casualties.
In just one morning, although Yang Zhen's air defense troops shot down and damaged six Japanese aircraft, they were unable to stop the fanatical soldiers of the Japanese aviation force from going crazy and indiscriminate attacks. The Japanese pilots almost went crazy in their attacks.
Below, more than 140 people in the city were killed and more than 70 injured.
On the contrary, because Yang Zhen's troops had never thought about air cover and had received strict air defense training, their casualties were not large. Only more than fifty people were killed or injured in the Japanese air raids.
Looking at the report on the number of civilian casualties in the Japanese bombing, Yang Zhen's face turned livid. Although he was furious at the Japanese army for causing huge casualties to the civilian population and the recent seemingly indiscriminate air raid tactics, Yang Zhen did not lose it.
Reasonable. He knew that the more he faced this situation, the more calm he had to be.
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