What made Xia Boxun most unacceptable, even angry, was that the Japanese army would ignore the international practice and shoot the parachuting pilot who had no resistance. [.! After hearing this report, Xia Boxun was furious, but he had no choice but to do anything. Now there was a continuous skydiving sky.
There were no Japanese planes left, and even if I wanted to find a place to vent the fire, I couldn't find it.
Although there is no longer a Japanese plane in the sky, Xia Boxun believes that he must find a place to vent his anger. Since there is no longer a Japanese plane in the sky, and the Japanese airport is the meat on the brigade commander's plate, it is not easy for him to go and fight with him.
Grab food to eat. If the Japanese army is still resisting tenaciously on the ground, this is the best and only target he can choose.
After forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart and secretly cursing a beast, Xia Boxun picked up the microphone and issued an order: "The planes with ammunition will stay temporarily to cover the evacuation of the brigade. The remaining planes will return to the airport to refuel and load ammunition. We and the brigade commander will
Let’s meet up and go find trouble for the Japs’ ground troops. Let them also have a taste of being bombed.”
Suppressing the anger in his heart that one of his men was shot dead by the Japanese army, Xia Boxun led the team back to refuel, replenish ammunition, and prepare to go to the Japanese army on the ground to cause trouble. At Harbin Airport, he found an empty Fang Ziyi and would come to support him on the way back.
The independent second garrison was sent directly back to Harbin.
Compared to Yang Zhen's two subordinates, Lieutenant General Saburo Endo, the commander of the Kwantung Army Aviation Corps, who was standing at the edge of Harbin Airport waiting for the return of the air raid group, was looking at the empty space at this time. Those fighter planes under his subordinates were cute.
The figure never appeared in the sky and was in a daze.
Although he had always objected, Saburo Endo could not twist his thigh with his arm. After reluctantly giving the order, he was still worried about this battle. In Saburo Endo's view, the opponent now has aviation, but the base
Where they are, how many troops there are, and what equipment they are equipped with are all unknown.
Under such circumstances, it was not appropriate to attack recklessly, and it was also extremely dangerous. So after formulating the battle plan, he still couldn't let it go, so he rushed from Xinjing to Harbin as soon as possible.
Prepare to personally direct the air raid.
Faced with such an elusive opponent with endless means, Saburo Endo, who once commanded the strategic bombing of Chongqing, felt powerless for the first time. He disguised himself as an aviation soldier of the Kwantung Army, went to his own airport to steal planes openly, and even used Kwantung in an exaggerated manner.
Even the military's own ground crew can load bombs onto planes, then turn around and attack the airport. What else can't this cunning opponent do?
In fact, Saburo Endo, who was very dissatisfied with the commander's desperate behavior, did not expect that General Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always been steady, would ignore him this time, and even the aviation teams stationed in Nenjiang and Qiqihar to fight against the Soviet Union.
Called over.
Although he also knew that the situation on the ground was extremely unfavorable to the Kwantung Army, Saburo Endo still felt that such a large-scale mobilization of aviation forces was still inappropriate. He was stubborn and always believed that the Anti-Japanese Alliance was nothing more than a plague. The true nature of the Kwantung Army
The enemy is the Soviet Far East Military District with thousands of aircraft, not the resistance alliance like these bandits.
Now that the Kwantung Army is losing its troops, if these bandits in Manchuria cooperate with the Soviet army in Jiangbei and take advantage of the main force of the Kwantung Army being attracted to attack, then the aviation forces currently deployed in North Manchuria will be able to contain the Soviet offensive.
The last barrier.
Therefore, Saburo Endo was firmly opposed to Umezu Yoshijiro's order to dispatch all aviation forces stationed in northern Manchuria to support the operations of the 14th Division. However, as a subordinate, especially Umezu Yoshijiro himself, he resolutely opposed it and issued a special order through the Tokyo base camp.
, this time Saburo Endo is still dissatisfied, but he still has to execute it.
After just receiving the order, his heart was suddenly filled with a strong feeling of uneasiness. Saburo Endo, who decided to take command in person, rushed to the edge of the runway to see off the attack aircraft group early in the morning. When he watched the spectacular large aircraft group passing over the airport, he was surrounded by people around him.
The cheering subordinates were different. Looking at the fleet of aircraft gradually retreating, Saburo Endo felt a sense of danger keenly.
The sense of smell developed through many years of military service is still quite sensitive. Endo Saburo's worries soon became a reality. Just an hour after the air attack on Founder's fleet took off, a large fleet passed over his head.
We turned around at the empty airport and flew away again.
I originally thought it was an air raid on Founder's fleet returning to Harbin Airport, but I didn't realize something was wrong until those planes arrived overhead. When I saw that those strange-looking planes were not painted with the familiar Hinomaru logo, but with wings.
When the red star mark appeared, the commander at the airport, Commander Takezo Aoki of the 12th Flight of the Kwantung Army, pushed Saburo Endo into the bunker as if he had just woken up from a dream.
And he himself hurriedly mobilized the few 25mm anti-aircraft guns to fight. But what they didn't expect was that after discovering that there were no targets worth bombing on the airport, those planes shook their wings and turned around.
It flew away. It was obvious that they were not willing to blow up the empty airport with bombs.
After watching the enemy planes that attacked the airport fly away, Lieutenant General Endo Saburo and Colonel Aoki Takesan breathed a sigh of relief and simultaneously thought of the air attack on Founder's fleet. There were at least sixty or seventy enemy planes that had just arrived at Harbin Airport.
, of which twin-engine bombers account for more than half, and there are more than 20 fighter jets.
If an aviation force is estimated to have a minimum ratio of bombers to fighters of four to six, then they still have at least a hundred or more fighter jets in hand. If the accuracy of this calculation is more than 70%, then where are the remaining fighter jets? Two people
Involuntarily, he thought of the more than 200 planes that were attacking Fangzheng.
Saburo Endo, who was the first to react and rushed over, ignored his previous gentleness and turned to Colonel Takesan Aoki in an angry tone: "Contact Major General Hashimoto Nobuhide immediately and ask him about the situation there. Also, tell the leader of the escort group.
Colonel Takeda Kinshiro must protect the bomber group at all costs."
What Saburo Endo didn't expect was that his communications staff, despite all their efforts, were unable to get in touch with Major General Nobuhide Hashimoto, who was commanding the air raid group. And Saburo Endo, who was furious, was trying to get in touch with Nobuhide Hashimoto.
Just when the major general and the bomber group he led were worried, an even more unfortunate news almost completely defeated Saburo Endo.
It was reported that Damintun Airport was destroyed in Qiqihar. The light bombers of the 31st Squadron, the 45th Squadron, and the 77th Fighter Squadron who were concentrated at the Damintun Airport in preparation for the second echelon bombing mission were suddenly attacked by the opponent.
Among them, heavy losses were suffered. 70% of the planes were bombed and more than half of the pilots were killed or injured. All the oil bombs stored at the airport were destroyed.
Before Saburo Endo was hit by an air attack from Qiqihar Damintun Airport, the fighters that were preparing to serve as the second echelon of air strikes were severely damaged. A Type 98 dive bomber returning from the direction of Founder appeared at Harbin Airport again.
In everyone's sight.
As if to confirm the uneasy premonition in Saburo Endo's heart, when the Type 98 dive bomber appeared in the sight of everyone at Harbin Airport, it was already swaying, with black smoke rising from all over its body, and the right rear of the fuselage was level
The tail fin was gone. The fuselage was full of bullet holes. When it landed, it was impossible to lower the landing gear, so it had to make an emergency landing at the airport using the still intact belly.
Looking at this plane, which was almost beaten to pieces, it only relied on the pilot's skillful flying skills and the fact that the battlefield was not far from Harbin, which was the starting base, that it managed to fly back, but it was actually scrapped. And from
Saburo Endo, the pilot who was helped off the plane and was covered in blood, did not speak for a long time. The tragic situation of the only returning plane and the disappearance of subsequent planes had already made him understand something.
The pilot, who was seriously injured and had to be helped by the ground crew to climb out of the plane, saw the military rank on Endo Saburo. Without waiting for Endo Saburo to speak, he quickly stood up unsteadily and saluted: "Your Majesty General, our army has just entered the square.
Within the territory, we encountered a large number of new enemy aircraft attacks."
"Those aircraft that attacked us were a new type of aircraft. Not only were they extremely fast, their bodies were strong and capable of large overload maneuvers, but their firepower was extremely ferocious. The Imperial Army Air Force's Type 97 fighter jets and Type 95 fighter jets were almost invisible in air battles.
There is no room for fighting back.”
"Moreover, the enemy was extremely cunning and adopted a tactic of setting up ambush in the air. As soon as we entered Founder's territory, a large number of enemy planes suddenly swooped down from high altitudes and used their powerful firepower to attack our aircraft formations. Our army was unable to take precautions, and the first
One-third of the aircraft were lost in just one round of battle. In the subsequent battles, due to the overall inferiority of aircraft performance, they were constantly being passively beaten. Under the desperate attacks of the enemy, our bomber group did not even have a chance to drop bombs.
"
"Request Your Excellency, Commander, to send out support troops immediately, otherwise Major General Hashimoto and the others will not be able to support them for much longer. The performance of enemy aircraft far exceeds ours. We cannot run away or fight in the air. If we do not send out reinforcements, Hashimoto will
I'm afraid the major general is in trouble."
Having said this, the pilot took out a camera from his shoulder bag and handed it to Saburo Endo and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, this was given to me by my dead bombardier before he died in action. How many of the enemy troops participated in the battle this time?"
This kind of aircraft we have never seen has been photographed by him. He asked me to pass it on to my superiors, hoping to find a way to deal with this kind of aircraft."
"It was precisely in order to send back this important information that I did not make up my mind to die for the country with Commander Hashimoto in order to repay His grace. Now that the information has been sent, it would be detrimental to the dignity of the Imperial Army for me to leave the battlefield.
For this matter, I ask Your Excellency, Commander, to severely punish you."
The pilot, who was already seriously injured, could no longer hold on after making this report, and his eyes fell into unconsciousness. He looked at the seriously injured pilot and him who had been lifted out of the plane.
The crew, as well as the Type 98 dive bomber that was almost smashed, Saburo Endo's face, who was still calm at first, suddenly turned extremely pale.
Facing the facts before him, an unexpected thought came to Saburo Endo's mind: "We were defeated, and it was a complete defeat. It's over. Now, except for a small number of survivors stationed in North Korea,
, the last remaining strength of the Kwantung Army Aviation Corps is gone."
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