Wang Hai and the others began their return flight around two o'clock in the afternoon. Without He Yingqin's harassment, the airport's unloading efficiency surged. The combined unloading speed of the next eleven air fortresses was only twice as long as that of Wang Hai's flight.
Just as they were embarking on their return journey, on the west bank of the Oujiang River, the Xuebing Army advanced in three directions. With the support of Xue Changkong's Fujing Aviation Unit, they once again launched a counterattack against the South China Corps of the Communist Army.
In the three-pronged offensive, Ye Zhao's Second Xue Army advanced the fastest. There was no big river like the Oujiang River to block it, and it was located in a plain area. With two brigades of tank troops as the vanguard, they descended to Quzhou in half a day and captured the Dragon Boat Festival in the evening.
Youxian, then the troops were divided into two groups overnight, attacking Huangshan together and approaching Jiande City.
The cadet army's military front was too strong, and the fifth division of the Korean puppet army and the independent tenth brigade were simply unable to withstand it, and because Okamura Ningji and the new South China Corps military advisory group leader Ono Shengji deliberately abandoned small cities and settled in big cities
Starting a decisive battle with the cadet army directly gave the stickmen a reason to "strategic retreat", so a scene appeared that made the cadets dumbfounded. Often they would just start preparing for artillery fire, and the stickmen had already run away.
By 11 o'clock that night, two units of the Second Xue Army captured Jiande, while the other unit approached Huangshan. They had fully taken control of the initiative on the northern battlefield.
Of the three-pronged offensive, the one with the greatest difficulty was the southern one commanded by Jiang Guangnai and Liu Yuqing. Because it was across the Oujiang River, and because Taizhou was one of Okamura's designated decisive battle sites, Ono Shengji paid special attention to it. He personally commanded it.
To defend, in order to buy time for troops from other directions to assemble towards Taizhou, the Japs mobilized all the North Korean and puppet troops in Taizhou, Ningbo and the Japanese military police to participate in the defense. They also expelled about 10,000 civilians and ordered them to help build fortifications.
Unable to use artillery and aircraft, the Fourth Army of the Xue Army attacked for an entire afternoon. After paying a heavy price of about 2,000 casualties among the Xue Fourth Army, Jiang Guangnai had to order a suspension of the offensive.
On the front line, Rao Guohua advanced very smoothly at first, but after taking Yongkang, he encountered a joint counterattack in Wuyi County by about one and a half divisions of North Korean puppet troops and about two brigades of Japanese military police troops who were massing towards Taizhou. It was dark.
It was too late. Considering that the large-scale shelling might accidentally injure the Chinese residents in the city, Rao Guohua also suspended the attack after asking Jiang Guangnai for instructions.
The Xuebing Army had just begun to launch an attack on the Japanese-occupied area on the eastern front of Oushui. Ono Shengji reported to Okamura and the military headquarters.
And because the Japanese Military Headquarters had just received a report from Nishio Hisao, commander of the National Expeditionary Forces in Wuhan, about the large-scale reinforcement of Chongqing by the Cadet Army Aviation Force, Tojo Hideki and others felt that the attack on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau would become more difficult.
It was so difficult that I couldn't help but waver in giving up on southeastern Zhejiang again.
What the kid was most worried about was that after occupying the frontline airport in southeastern Zhejiang, it would be easier for the Xuebing Army to organize air raids on the Japanese mainland. So after a dispute, Tojo pointed out that in order to avoid another incident similar to the "Nagoya Plague Incident"
After the tragedy, southeastern Zhejiang must not give up. It is proposed to transfer one or two standing divisions from the National Dispatch Army and more than 20,000 North Korean puppet troops from the Taiwan Corps of the Communist Army to support the South China Corps. We do not seek to retake southwest Zhejiang, but we must stabilize it.
Ou Shui Defense Line. In order to strengthen his persuasion, he finally said: "Some people always think that the empire can use its huge military scale to offset the development advantage of the student army. I think this view is ridiculous. Although we have the traditional military advantage, but please
Don’t forget, it only took six short years for the Xuebing Army to grow from a mere regiment to its current size! Gentlemen, have you studied the development model of the Xuebing Army? I have been working on this during this time.
I did some research and achieved some results. I found that the growth of the Xuebing Army is directly proportional to the territory it occupies. In other words, as long as it is given a large enough territory, it can grow into an army that can compete with the Empire.
A monster to compete with! Therefore, if we really want to use our traditional military advantage to outcompete the Xuebing Army, we must also restrict the Xuebing Army from expanding its territory! Gentlemen, has anyone paid attention to the situation in Hainan? To put it nicely,
The Fourth Division firmly occupies the southwestern coastal areas of Hainan, but in reality?" At this point, the old devil deliberately "scorned" Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, and only after everyone showed enough concern, did he
He continued: "Three days ago, General Sawada sent several telegrams to me. Gentlemen, the situation of the Fourth Division is not optimistic. They are actually struggling to survive under heavy siege by the Xuebing Army. Why is this happening?
The situation? The reason lies with someone here. Because of his connivance, the Xuebing Army actually smuggled luxury goods to the mainland through the descendants of the merchants of the Fourth Division - what is the difference between this and capitalizing on the enemy? Which one is tolerable?
Intolerable! I think that after guarding southeastern Zhejiang, we should immediately mobilize our forces to resolve the situation in Hainan..."
In fact, no matter from which perspective, the Osaka Fourth Division of the Japanese Army is a deformed existence on Hainan Island. Let’s not talk about the Xuebing Army. Ouyang Yun actually kept it for ulterior motives and it will be of great use in the future. ; So what about from the Japanese perspective? The Army was deceived at first, but after discovering the anomaly, it could only embarrassingly acquiesce to the fact due to face problems - the Fourth Division always achieved staged victories, and in other areas of the Army When the front troops had zero victories against the Army, this had actually become a fig leaf for the Army Ministry - so although it felt there was a problem, even if it was to explain to Hirohito and the people, the Army Ministry still needed it to continue. To continue to exist on Hainan Island in a deformed state, no matter how much supply it costs, it will not hesitate to do so. As for the navy, because of the poor performance of the Hainan strategy, it was not welcomed at first, and then it wanted to borrow those "descendants of traders" Stealing the Semiconductor Components of the Gakuin Army, in the end, he wanted to retain a springboard to attack the Gakuin Army from the sea. Therefore, although Yamamoto Isoroku realized that there was something fishy in it early on, he kept it secret.
Tojo didn't know the history of the Fourth Division's occupation of Hainan Island, and he was simple-minded and couldn't think about it in depth, so this scene happened - he thought he had insight after just two telegrams with Sawada Shigeru. After taking everything into account and taking it as an opportunity to counterattack the navy, he made a surprising statement.
After uttering this long series of astonishing words, Tojo thought that he could defeat Yoneuchi Mitsumasa's army, and looked at him aggressively with a proud expression.
But Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, as an "old stick" who has been active in Japan's military and political circles for many years, is so easy to get along with? His counterattack in just a few words left Tojo speechless - "Osaka No. 1 The Fourth Division is under the control of the Army, right? Does it mean that the department has been changed to the Marine Corps?"
The subtext of these two sentences is obvious - since the Osaka Fourth Division is under the control of the Army, should the Army be responsible for its actions?