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    Yang Zhen's sense of smell is still keen. After entering August, the Japanese army was indeed ready for battle. However, because of the unfavorable weather, the Songhua River entered the flood season.  [.Com text] Not only the heavy rain continued, but the water level of the Songhua River also rose sharply, which greatly hindered the movement of the troops and delayed them.

    As the situation in the Nomonhan area has gradually begun to ease, Umezu Yoshijiro, who has just been promoted to general in advance, has mobilized his troops.  We are going to encircle this bandit in several counties starting from Luobei in the north, to Fengshan County in the south, from the west bank of Songhua River in Suibin in the east, to the eastern foot of Xiaoxinan Mountains in Foshan in the west, and to completely eliminate the bandits who are stubbornly resisting the imperial army in one go.  Lose.

    Nomenhan received a heavy beating from the Soviet army, and the Soviet army used aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery to give a solid lesson in what is called modern three-dimensional warfare. The Kwantung Army finally couldn't bear the huge cost of casualties. Honestly  Lowered his head.  An entire division and a half of the Kwantung Army was crippled. This time they clearly understood what the gap was.

    Umezu Yoshijiro is very smart. The protracted battle of Nomonhan brought not only serious casualties to the Kwantung Army, but also a huge consumption of materials that the Kwantung Army and even the entire Japanese Empire could not bear.

    "Compared with the infantry as expendable supplies, what was even more unbearable for the Japanese army was the heavy losses of their much more precious tanks and well-trained crews.  The aviation force suffered huge losses in equally valuable aircraft and pilots, and after the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain was lost, the already poor reserve of heavy artillery shells was depleted.

    During the battle, the Kwantung Army was horrified to find that if they shot down one Soviet aircraft, the other side would gain ten more.  Every time a tank is destroyed, the opponent will add ten, or even hundreds.  If you fire even a 70mm infantry artillery shell, the opponent will fire back dozens or even hundreds of 122mm and 152mm heavy artillery shells with much greater caliber and lethality.  The huge disparity in firepower, and the overwhelming Soviet artillery fire, made almost every attack by the Japanese army fail.

    The huge losses in the battle, especially the loss of technical equipment, made Umezu Yoshijiro keenly feel that he could not continue the fight as early as the end of July.

    The loss of infantry does not matter to him, but due to limited production capacity, every tank, every aircraft, including the crew, is extremely precious to the Kwantung Army.  They were beaten by dozens in Nomenhan. Although the Soviet army suffered more losses, it also made the Japanese army feel distressed and almost bleed.

    Japan¡¯s national strength is weak and cannot be compared with those established European and American powers.  At this rate of loss, no matter how many tanks and aircraft Japan's arsenals produce, there won't be enough to add to it.

    Although he is much younger than Ueda Kenkichi, Umezu Yoshijiro has always considered things carefully and thoroughly, and dealt with things extremely calmly.  In early August, he called the Tokyo base camp several times regarding the Battle of Nomenhan and proposed a truce in advance.  Before the China Incident is completely resolved, it is not appropriate to launch a full-scale war against the Soviet Union.  At least for now, the Japanese army is not ready for a long-term war against the Soviet Union.

    "Compared to Ueda Kenkichi, the Japanese base camp paid more attention to Umezu Yoshijiro's opinions.  Under the tough attitude of General Umezu Yoshijiro, and based on the fact that the 23rd Division that participated in the battle suffered more than half of its casualties, and the 7th Division that brought reinforcements also suffered heavy casualties and was unable to fight anymore, he was finally forced to issue an order on August 13th.  An armistice was issued.  And this result is a full month earlier than the history that Yang Zhen knew.

    After the armistice in the Nomonhan area, Umezu Yoshijiro handed over the task of cleaning up the mess to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters, and he personally flew to Jiamusi to deploy the troops to clear up Yang Zhen's troops.  A large number of troops and aviation and other technical arms were mobilized to quickly deploy along the south bank of the Songhua River.

    The north of the Songhua River is all mountainous, so there is no need for the empire's precious tanks.  But the use of airplanes is still quite great.  Umezu Yoshijiro transferred one-third of the Army Aviation Corps that was gradually withdrawn from the Nomenhan area to Jiamusi and several surrounding field airports.  In addition to reconnaissance aircraft and light bombers, Umezu Yoshijiro even mobilized an entire fleet of Type 97 medium bombers.

    Although the light weapon brought back from the 104th Division was broken and had a strange appearance, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always attached great importance to intelligence work, keenly felt that his opponent should already have a sizable arsenal.  He mobilized concentrated bombers to participate in the war in order to completely destroy the opponent's arsenal.

    In fact, Umezu Yoshijiro already knew that his opponent already had at least part of the military production capacity before the 104th Division reported it.  Because he finally found out the amount of equipment in the secret base on Gunce Mountain that General Ueda Kenkichi kept secret.

    When Umezu Yoshijiro learned how much supplies were stored there, Umezu Yoshijiro, who had always been modest in appearance, no longer cared about his demeanor, and directly faced the defeat of the Nomonhan War.Taking the blame, former Chief of Staff Isotani Rensuke, who had been dismissed, shouted in front of Ueda Kenkichi that he was a stupid donkey who didn't even understand that eggs cannot be put in one basket.

    It wasn¡¯t just his predecessor who was scolded in his mouth. Even when Kenkichi Ueda was in office, the staff of the Kwantung Army suffered disaster.  In his words, they are not even as good as a donkey, and they are all so short-sighted.

    What made him even more angry was that Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, who commanded the Japanese Fourth Division stationed in Jiamusi, told him on the first day he took office that the arsenal originally planned to be set up by the Kwantung Army in Jiamusi in order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union.  After the opponent successfully attacked Jiamusi, all the machines that had not yet had time to unload the trucks disappeared together with a large number of workers.

    Not counting the loss of a large amount of military equipment and raw materials that were secret reserves, Ueda Kenkichi thought it was not enough to increase the strength of others, so in the end he even sent a large number of workers to the door.  Does he really think that these Chinese people are fools, leaving ready-made machinery and equipment and skilled workers unused?

    The reason why Umezu Yoshijiro changed his original plan and determined to wipe out this bandit as soon as possible was that although he knew that his opponent had an arsenal, he did not expect that the opponent could become productive in such a short period of time. Umezu Yoshijiro knew that,  The longer this drags on, the harder it will be to exterminate this bandit that has become the norm.

    He overcame all objections and mobilized a whole fleet of Type 97 bombers, just to find the opponent's arsenal and completely destroy it from the air.  If it was convenient, he wouldn't even mind using this medium-sized bomber fleet to plow the opponent's base after the heavy artillery shells stored by the Kwantung Army had been exhausted in the Battle of Nomenhan.

    In addition to a large number of aviation forces, Umezu Yoshijiro also mobilized the newly formed 24th and 25th Japanese divisions, four mixed brigades and two independent brigades of the puppet Manchukuo army.  A cavalry brigade of the Xing'an Army, the Japanese and puppet troops combined totaled more than 60,000 troops. As for the Fourth Division originally stationed in Jiamusi, in view of the continuous defeat of the division in the early stage of the campaign, not to mention the heavy losses of other cooperating units,  Under the urging of the new chief of staff, Lieutenant General Iimura, Umezu Yoshijiro never thought of using this weapon. Because he suffered repeated defeats and suffered little losses, he took the entire attached army to annihilation, and was defeated within the Kwantung Army.  A troop called the Broom Star.

    ¡°What Umezu Yoshijiro, who thought he was fully prepared, didn¡¯t expect was that the operation was full of ominous connotations from the very beginning.

    The first ominous sign was that in order to ensure sufficient cover firepower, Umezu Yoshijiro dragged the 12th Flying Group into the battlefield despite the objections of Lieutenant General Iimura, who had just finished the bombing of Lanzhou and had been transferred to Manchuria for rest.

    The ominous omen began with this 12th Flying Squadron.  The 12th Group, equipped with advanced bombers imported from Italy, was hit by a heavy rain as soon as they arrived in Jiamusi.  As a result, everyone was surprised except for the Twelfth Team themselves, who had seen it earlier. These advanced imported aircraft had their fuselages damaged by heavy rain.

    With great difficulty, two of them were repaired and they took off to conduct reconnaissance at Luobei, Heli and Tangyuan, but they never came back.  During the entire battle, despite the opponent's weak anti-aircraft firepower, this team suffered a heavy damage rate and a low attendance rate, even less than half of the Japanese Army's already extremely lagging Type 93.

    The performance of this advanced bomber in this battle, together with its previous poor performance on the Guanhai battlefield, made the Japanese army, which had always been stingy, no longer able to tolerate it.  These advanced bombers, which the Japanese army thought they had taken advantage of and imported at low prices from so-called allies, were all retired after the war.

    Of course, what happened to the Twelve Teams was just one of the unknown things they encountered before this battle even started.  Affected by this heavy rain, it was not just the Twelve Teams who were unlucky.  Due to the large number of aircraft mobilized to Jiamusi at the same time, the Jiamusi Airport, which was not large in size, far exceeded its capacity.

    A large number of aircraft can only be temporarily parked in the open air because there are no pods to park them.  After a rare heavy rainstorm mixed with hail that lasted for three hours in the Sanjiang area, not only the Italian bombers of the 12th Air Force, which looked thick on the surface but were actually very fragile, suffered heavy losses, but also other air groups also suffered heavy losses.  .

    ¡°More than a dozen Type 97 light bombers and Type 98 reconnaissance aircraft were washed into the Songhua River by floods caused by heavy rains, and disappeared without a trace.  Most of the gasoline and even bombs stored at the airport were swept away by the floods.  Even several pilots who swore to live and die with the aircraft also went to visit the Dragon King.

    When the weather finally cleared up and the Japanese engineers were busy repairing the airport that was destroyed by heavy rain, a burst of long-range artillery fire from Jiangbei made their efforts in vain. The airport was piled with gasoline and bombs.The explosion caused by the explosion sent half of the airport into the sky.

    Except for those Twelve Sentai aircraft that were too fragile and were temporarily transferred to other airports, more than half of the aircraft that Umezu Meijiro mobilized to Jiamusi, together with those previously lost in the flood, were lost, and the pilots suffered heavy casualties.

    Meizu Yoshijiro, who had never thought that a bandit armed force could possess heavy artillery from the north bank of the Songhua River to the Jiamusi Airport south of the city, could no longer be described as furious after seeing the tragic situation at the airport.  He knew clearly that the artillery that could shoot such a distance could only be the 150mm long-range cannon developed by the Japanese army with a range of more than 18,000 meters.

    Not long ago, after the war in Nomenhan had eased somewhat, he assigned two of these artillery pieces to the 25th Division to block the banks of the Songhua River in Yilandu under the tremendous pressure from the front line.  Except for Kuwahara Shiro who lost these two cannons, it was impossible for his opponent to have a cannon that could hit such a long distance.

    There is a Taisho 4-year-old 150mm howitzer that the Army has begun to gradually phase out in the secret warehouse at Qunce Mountain. Umezu Yoshijiro knows this.  Moreover, the troops who participated in the Qunce Mountain battle have reported many times that they have been bombarded by 150mm heavy artillery.

    But the Taisho 4-year-old 150mm howitzer, which has a range of only about 8,000 meters, will never be able to hit that far. Umezu Yoshijiro can be sure of this.  In addition to the opponent acquiring new long-range artillery from the north of Heilongjiang, the only possibility is that the opponent has captured the Kwantung Army's long-range cannon.

    In order to settle the ongoing negotiation dispute with the Soviet Union, after the Jiamusi Airport was attacked by long-range artillery fire, Umezu Yoshijiro specially dispatched a large number of technical personnel from the Kwantung Army Artillery Headquarters to conduct a careful survey of the shelling site.  Although he knew it was impossible, Umezu Yoshijiro still hoped that the artillery used to bombard the airport was Soviet-made artillery.

    In order to find out the real evidence of Jiangbei¡¯s support for the Anti-Alliance, so as to cut off the other party¡¯s external supplies as much as possible during negotiations.  General Umezu Yoshijiro did not think that the other party would not find a way to get some weapons and equipment from the so-called fraternal party under one of their ancestors when they were already adjacent to Jiangbei.

    As long as we can seize real evidence, we can at least force the hateful polar bear to make certain concessions during negotiations.  Even if the opponent's external supply channels are not cut off, they must be prevented from being so blatant.

    However, the results of the appraisal surprised him. The technicians guaranteed with the dignity of their samurai that the artillery used by the opponent to bombard the airport was the Japanese Army's own 150mm cannon.  Judging from the two unexploded warheads at the shelling site because they were not fuse-ed, the opponent was not proficient in using such long-range artillery.  Being able to hit the airport can only be described as "lucky" in two words.

    General Umezu Yoshijiro was so angry that he almost vomited blood after receiving this report.  How lucky was he to be able to shoot so accurately?  By luck, he sent nearly half of the aviation troops he had painstakingly mobilized to Jiamusi Airport to the west?  If they were more proficient in mastering it, would they be sent to the west together with themselves, the commander of the Kwantung Army commanded by Jiamusi?

    The furious General Yoshijiro Umezu threw the report in the face of the head of the appraisal team who came to report.  Faced with the rage of General Umezu Yoshijiro, the person in charge of the appraisal must have told General Umezu Yoshijiro in shock that if the opponent could master the use of this kind of artillery, with the shooting accuracy and range of this kind of artillery, there would be no chance of hitting his temporary headquarters.  Any questions.

    The reason why the opponent was able to hit the airport was not only a fluke, but also certain that there must be correctors who secretly infiltrated around the airport to provide parameters for the bombardment.

    This answer made Umezu Yoshijiro, who was already extremely furious because of the heavy losses of the aviation force, even more furious and made his back feel cold.  If this result is true, the other party can actually send a small force to approach Jiamusi Airport and complete the guidance of artillery fire under its heavily guarded nose.  If they sneak into Jiamusi, wouldn't they themselves be in danger?

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