Although Shigeichi Namada was extremely dissatisfied with Ushijima Mitsuru's unauthorized change of the military headquarters order. [.Com text] to go north to Hoqing instead of going west to Pori. However, he was dissatisfied, and the promised aviation cover did not change. After all, Ten
The 1st Division is the main force of the entire Eastern Front. Under the premise that the opponent already has aviation, ensuring the safety of the 11th Division is also something that Hata Juichi must pay attention to. With this guarantee, the 11th Division has no
I thought about air defense.
In the eyes of these somewhat arrogant Japanese officers and soldiers, the air warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army were invincible. Since they had dealt heavy losses to the China Army on the battlefield in the China Pass, it was the same with the Kwantung Army. As for those promised by the army commander
No one has thought about when the new air cover will arrive. They all think that as a dignified lieutenant general, Commander Namada Juichi will never lie.
Yes, Lieutenant General Juichi Namada did not lie. What he told was the truth. The commander of the Kwantung Army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, was indeed attacked at two major airports. After almost all the aviation forces originally assigned to the command of the Fifth Army were wiped out, he promised
Mobilize new aviation forces for the Fifth Army in the shortest possible time.
Umezu Yoshijiro agreed, but Lieutenant General Saburo Endo, commander of the aviation regiment as the highest command of the Kwantung Army's aviation force, firmly disagreed with the deployment of a large number of new aviation units to support the Fifth Army's combat operations.
The reason for Saburo Endo's opposition is simple. Although the Kwantung Army's aviation force is now rapidly expanding, it still has to take on air defense tasks across Manchuria. With great uncertainties in Jiangbei, it is impossible for the aviation corps to carry out all operations.
All aircraft were transferred to the Fifth Army.
In Saburo Endo's opinion, it is impossible for the Chinese to have the strength to form a combat-effective aviation regiment in such a short period of time. The planes that bombed Mudanjiang Hailang Airport could only be bombers dispatched from Jiangbei. Those anti-Manchu armed forces
There is no such great ability.
Although he also admitted that the other party's plans for the airport surprise attack were classic, planning and implementation are two different things. No matter how good the plan is, it must be able to be implemented. Unless Jiangbei intervenes, the other party will not be able to implement it at all.
In this air strike, it takes at least a year to train a pilot from the basics to being able to fly an aircraft. After allocating one-third of its troops to the Fifth Army, the Kwantung Army Aviation Corps was responsible for the air defense of other important areas.
We are already stretched thin, and we really cannot mobilize too many troops to support the Fifth Army at the moment. Unless we risk the empty air defense in other areas, we mobilize new troops to reinforce the Fifth Army.
But this is absolutely unacceptable to Saburo Endo, who once vowed not to let a bomb fall in Manchuria from Jiangbei. In Saburo Endo's view, although the quality of Jiangbei's aviation troops is low and the aircraft performance is backward, their numbers are huge.
And there are heavy bombers with a combat radius sufficient to cover the Nanman Heavy Industrial Base.
Now that the Kwantung Army is facing the threat of thousands of various aircraft from Jiangbei, it is extremely undesirable to mobilize a large number of troops to deal with an anti-Manchu armed force. The combat target of the Kwantung Army's aviation force is Jiangbei, not the so-called anti-Manchu forces.
Anti-Japanese armed forces.
Moreover, not all the aviation units promised by the base camp to be incorporated into the Kwantung Army were in place. In fact, the strength of the Kwantung Army aviation group was not as great as it appeared on paper. After losing nearly one-third of its troops in one fell swoop,
Saburo Endo, who was actually somewhat unable to make ends meet, was really reluctant to mobilize aircraft to support Juichi Namada.
In his opinion, the three hundred combat aircraft that accounted for more than one-third of the Kwantung Army's current air power were all taken away without even making a sound. He, Namada Juichi, was simply a
Idiot. And if I send more fighter planes, I will be an even bigger idiot than an idiot.
Umezu Yoshijiro insisted on increasing the number, but Endo Saburo refused to do it. Back and forth, when the 11th Division attacked Baoqing, the two were still arguing in Xinjing. Although Umezu Yoshijiro had an extremely tough attitude, he did not do anything.
Saburo Endo, who refused to bow his head, only dispatched a squadron of reconnaissance aircraft to handle the errand. As for the rest, there is no need to talk about it.
Even this reconnaissance aircraft team that has been dispatched and only transferred from Xinjing before the 11th Division went north is still in the Mudanjiang Hailang that has just been cleaned up because the Binsui Railway has not been repaired and the fuel is in short supply due to transportation difficulties.
He lay down at the airport and couldn't go out at all. Ushijima didn't know this.
So when the bomber group led by An Zaijiang pounced on Qingyuan, all the officers and soldiers from the division commander Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru to the division chief of staff Masanoda Yoshitsugu and all the officers and soldiers thought it was the air support promised by the army commander.
Not only were they not prepared for air defense, but they also raised their rifles to salute the imperial warriors in the sky. But they did not expect that what these planes brought was not good news, but bombs that covered their heads and faces.
Because the Japanese army was too careless and did not have the slightest precaution, these more than 20 tons of napalm bombs played their greatest role. The outcome of the Japanese army in Qingyuan after being bombed was not much better than that of the 12th Regiment on the Jinshagang front line.
, and the losses were even more heavy. Because napalm bombs are even more lethal when there are buildings than in field situations.
Seeing the raging fire on the ground, An Zaijiang showed an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth. After giving the order to return, An Zaijiang immediately used a special password to Yuan Bin, who was waiting for the results of their bombing at Jiamusi Airport.
Sent the code word "Sunset Sky" for successful bombing
After receiving the secret message that Operation An Zaijiang was successful, Yuan Bin immediately forwarded the telegram of victory to Yang Zhen who was in Baoqing County. After receiving the telegram from Yuan Bin, Yang Zhen read it carefully and put it aside.
The success of the aviation surprise attack was not a surprise to Yang Zhen.
Yang Zhen, who did not yet know that the division headquarters of the 11th Division had also been completely destroyed in this air raid, and that the entire 11th Division had lost its unified command, seemed to have successfully dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese troops on the Jinshagang front line.
The air raid only weakened the Japanese army's ability to continue moving north. It was unable to have a decisive impact on the war situation.
At this moment, Yang Zhen, who had turned his mind from the Jinshagang front line back to Baoqing County, seemed not to hear the deafening sound of gunfire coming from outside the window. And he did not feel a trace of joy about the success of the aviation surprise attack. Still,
Looking at the map carefully.
While fighting fiercely with the 12th Regiment of the Japanese Army on the Jinshagang front line, the battle outside Baoqing was equally fierce, even more tragic than that on the Jinshagang front line. Due to the constraints of the terrain, the Japanese army on the Jinshagang front line could only adopt a front-line push.
Although the main artillery fire of the 11th Division was concentrated, due to the narrow terrain, it was impossible to invest too many troops at one time.
But Peng Shilu, who fought hard at Baoqing Dongguan, had to face Japanese attacks from two directions. After Beiguan was lost, Peng Shilu commanded the troops not only to deal with frontal attacks, but also to defend against attacks from the south from Beiguan.
The Japanese army besieged Baoqing County. After occupying Dongguan, the Japanese army immediately divided into two groups. In addition to attacking Baoqing County with a large force, they also sent a reinforced squadron to attack from north to south, and attacked from the front.
The Japanese troops in Dongguan formed a pincer attack on Dongguan.
After the main force of the 44th Regiment arrived at night, the Japanese army obviously shifted the focus of their attack. Not only did they invest the main force in Dongguan, they also weakened the attack strength of the Jiaxinzi front line. Only less than one brigade of troops was left to continue the attack.
Nobuko launched a front-line attack, and in addition to bypassing several defensive support points and heading towards the Baoqing city wall, the main force turned most of its troops towards the direction of Dongguan.
Peng Shilu not only had to face a double-sided attack by the Japanese army in Dongguan, but also in the direction of Dongguan where there was basically no artillery support, the firepower gap between the two sides was greater than that of the Jinshagang front line. Under the double-sided attack by the Japanese army, all the troops and firepower were
Peng Shilu, who was at a disadvantage, fought extremely hard.
By daybreak of the battle, not only had all the buildings in Dongguan been razed to the ground by Japanese artillery fire, but the positions in Dongguan had also been repeatedly rushed in and lost by the 44th Regiment, which launched a group charge at all costs from the beginning.
At the same time, Baoqing's city wall was also blasted by concentrated artillery fire from the Japanese army to create several large slopes that were convenient for infantry attacks. Several times, Baoqing's city wall was breached. It even penetrated into the city several times.
If the troops who stayed in the city had not risked exposing all their hidden firepower points and concentrated their limited mortars to fight back with all their strength. They even organized a death squad with party members as the backbone to lead the counterattack and fight back the Japanese troops that broke into the city.
The city defense was almost not breached.
Facing the fierce Japanese offensive, Peng Shilu asked for help several times, hoping to transfer the battalion deployed between Jiaxinzi and the backer, which was also the only remaining mobile force on the Baoqing battlefield, into the city so that he could reinforce Dongguan and strengthen the
Defense within the city. But Yang Zhen thought about it and refused.
Even after the Japanese army had penetrated into the city and even reached a distance of less than a thousand meters from his headquarters, he still insisted that the camp should not move. Yang Zhen not only refused Peng Shilu's request to mobilize troops, but even offered to escort him
Xia Boxun's company that entered Baoqing was also strengthened to the front line of Jiaxinzi.
The reason is very simple. Dongguan is important, and it can even be said to be the support point of the entire Baoqing peripheral defense. But there is one thing that cannot be compared with the front line of Jiaxinzi and the backer. That is, although the front line of Jiaxinzi and the backer is very important to the perimeter of Baoqing,
Its defensive importance is not as important as Dongguan, but it is not only a barrier to the southwest of Baoqing County, but also restricts the road from Baoqing to Jiamusi.
Its transportation convenience is far better than that of Dongguan or even Baoqing County. Going west from Jiaxinzi Line, you can go west to Boli at any time to support the 29th Division's operations. You can quickly retract the dense area along the road to the south.
Mountain. It is much faster to retreat by road than through the large swamps in the east of Baoqing, and the losses of equipment and personnel will be much smaller.
If the Jiaxinzi line is lost, it means that the Japanese army has at least opened up the road traffic in Baoqing under the current situation that the southern part of Baoqing has been actually abandoned. In terms of the marching ability and physical fitness of the Japanese army, it has given them
Movement within Baoqing has created great convenience.
It is important to capture Baoqing County, but what is more important for the 11th Division now is to obtain a maneuvering space that can advance, attack, and retreat and defend. For now, open up the roads in Baoqing and obtain a large-scale maneuverability
The room for insertion is more important to the 11th Division than obtaining a simple tactical support point.
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