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Text Chapter 248: Umezu Yoshijiro jumps over the wall in a hurry

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    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 that insufficient troops and supplies were only part of it. In the final analysis, it was the performance of Yang Zhen's troops since their emergence.  Strong combat effectiveness and tenacious fighting style.  ¡¾.Com text¡¿

    Since the first phase of the clean-up campaign began, Umezu Yoshijiro must read every battle report from the front.  He accurately judged from the previous battle conditions sent back from the front that although the number of this unit was not as large as that of the Chinese government troops and Japanese guerrillas in the pass.

    But 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 coordinated infantry and artillery operations, and the degree of cooperation between various services and arms have reached an extremely proficient level.  At least it is no less than the most elite and best-equipped training corps of the Chinese government.

    Whether it is attacking or passively defending, its technical and tactical level has reached a very high level.  Especially good at fighting in mountains and using landmines.  Although there is still a certain gap compared with the Japanese standing divisions, this gap is rapidly shortening.

    Its firm will to fight, especially its strong spirit of proactive attack, is far beyond the comparison with the Chinese government forces in Guanai.  Even when the casualty rate of the troops reaches 70%, the troops can still be kept stable without collapse.  This is not inferior even to the Imperial Army, which has always been known to be tenacious.

    It is for this reason that Umezu Meijiro acquiesced to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru to increase the firepower of the troops of the Fourth Division heading north to Renjiangkou to an abnormal level.  They even mobilized some additional heavy artillery from the newly replenished Muling Heavy Artillery Regiment and Dongning Heavy Artillery Regiment.

    In Umezu Yoshijiro¡¯s view, in order to wipe out this anti-Manchu and 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 afford 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 that the Kwantung Army has lost the best opportunity to destroy it, if it wants to destroy this anti-Manchu armed force that has become the largest and most well-trained in Manchuria, it will probably consume a lot of energy and troops.  .

    Umezu Yoshijiro, who finally figured out the number of weapons in the secret warehouse of Kunze Mountain that Ueda Kenkichi had thrown away, secretly scolded his predecessor for the first time in his heart.  If he hadn't lost Qunce Mountain, the Kwantung Army's largest secret warehouse, in a daze, why would the Kwantung Army be so passive now.  He didn't even dare to fire the cannonballs openly.

    After the opponent obtained this large number of troops, his strength has developed to the point that no army can be underestimated.  A force of tens of thousands of people has hundreds of wild cannons and hundreds of mortars.  There are even 150mm heavy howitzers. You must know that the Chinese government forces in the pass do not have this level of equipment.  The Chinese government army has millions of troops, but only 48 German-made 150mm 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 Umezu Yoshijiro remain silent for a long time after reading the telegram, but his face was extremely pale, indicating that he knew that something big might have happened again.  It was only after he received the telegram that he learned that the plane dispatched by Umezu Meijiro encountered a sudden attack by the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower while taking off from Jiamusi.

    The plane 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 because of the explosion of the plane.  As many as six fighter planes serving as cover were shot down.

    Looking at the report sent by the aviation force, Umezu Yoshijiro was silent for a long time, and Yamashita Tofumi looked at each other and smiled bitterly.  The first army commander killed on the battlefield since the establishment of the Japanese army finally appeared, although he had not yet officially taken office.

    However, compared to Yamashita Tomofumi who felt a sense of sorrow because of Sawada Shigeru's death, 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 the army.  's 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 stored in Jiamusi?

    As the youngest general in the Japanese army outside of the royal family, Umezu Yoshijiro was able to go from a poor peasant family to where he is today. He is naturally not a simple figure at the top of the Army University.  In fact, since he was a child, heHe was rated as smart by his school teacher, but not ordinary smart.  He always knows what he wants and what his opponents want.

    He did not simply 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 Sawada Shigeru.  Because he knew that by sending a single plane, for Jiamusi, which is not a large urban area, the straight-line distance between the enemy and ourselves would be extremely close. It could be said that the battle was under the eyes of the opponent. The most critical thing was the Japanese troops in Jiamusi City.  Considering the current situation where there is no depth to rely on, it is too conspicuous and too dangerous.

    When facing a single aircraft, the opponent can calmly deploy an air defense firepower network.  Even organizing heavy machine gun fire into the air may shoot down the aircraft, which is likely to have no cover.  Although Umezu Yoshijiro had never served in the Army Aviation Corps, his deputy chief of staff, Major General Saburo Endo, had an authentic 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 in northern Manchuria to be sent out to carry out carpet bombing of all munitions warehouses in Jiamusi and the gathering areas for new recruits of the Puppet Manchukuo, 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 the hundreds of planes that had assembled at Jiamusi Airport earlier were completely destroyed by the enemy¡¯s night attack on the airport, and all the aircrew were killed and injured.  Coupled with the time constraints, the aviation forces stationed in southern and western Manchuria did not have time to assemble. The number of aircraft that 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 thirty aircraft.  And more than 20 of them are temporarily repurposed fighter jets.

    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.  brTwenty 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 shelling and night attack of Jiamusi Airport alone, coupled with the sudden flood at the end of August, brought serious consequences to the Kwantung Army aviation force.  Almost a devastating blow.

    The flight is barely a trivial matter, and I can add something to it.  After all, the Japanese army has a relatively strong aviation industry and can manufacture most of its own aircraft. As long as there are no long-term losses, the Japanese army can afford the loss of hundreds of aircraft in one battle.  Although the replenishment speed may be slower, there will still be replenishment after all, right?

    "Compared with the loss of aircraft, what distressed the Kwantung Army most was an air battle. Two attacks almost wiped out all the outstanding pilots of the Kwantung Army.  With the replenishment of pilots equally slow, the Kwantung Army can now be said to be short of both men and machines.  In desperation, we can only use fighter jets to carry bombs to perform bombing, which is not our job.

    When Jiamusi Airport was attacked twice, because the opponent had no aviation and almost no fighter teams were dispatched, the losses of pilots and aircraft were minimal.  Now only the fighter force can send a large number of aircraft to participate in the war, although ground attacks have always been a sideline job for them.

    As the commander of the Kwantung Army, he still knows how much supplies Jiamusi has now.  The ammunition was just there, but the winter clothes stored there to replace the entire Northeast Manchu garrison, as well as a large amount of food, were strategic materials urgently needed by the opponent.  And only if these materials do not fall into the hands of the other party can the next blockade plan be effective.  As for whether the bombing would cause civilian casualties, this was not a consideration for him.

    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.  and the idea of ??undermining public sentiment and weakening its potential for subsequent development.

    It was a good idea for Umezu Yoshijiro to stew the supplies seized by Yang Zhen while picking up Sawada Shigeru.  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 forces to blow up the lost materials based on the idea 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, various warehouses of the Japanese army?Transportation relations, except for ammunition depots, are mostly concentrated along the railway lines.  More than 20,000 laborers were rescued, as well as more than 20,000 puppet Manchu army recruits captured in the north of Jiamusi City as laborers. Using the captured trains, before the Japanese planes arrived, several munitions warehouses except one were opened.  Outside, it has been mostly moved out.

    It¡¯s just that things were a bit 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 can only be stored in a relatively hidden area along the railway line after being transported out of the city.  Suddenly, outside Jiamusi City, wherever there was vegetation coverage on both sides of the railway line, winter clothing, gasoline barrels, ammunition boxes, medical equipment and other military supplies were piled everywhere.

    Yang Zhen, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, took the initiative and had enough labor.  The most critical thing is that Jiamusi Airport has fallen, and the Japanese aircraft participating in the air raid can only take off from Harbin, Mudanjiang and other areas, which in disguise buys Yang Zhen a lot of time.  As well as the fact that the fighter pilots who had temporarily changed careers were not skilled in ground attacks, most of the bombs missed their targets, 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 large, only one warehouse that had been shipped out 80% was bombed.  However, the residents of Jiamusi suffered heavy casualties from the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese army.  Eighty percent of the bombs that were thrown astray fell into residential areas.

    The reason for causing such huge casualties to the people of Jiamusi was not only the entire Jiamusi, but also the air-raid shelters where the Japanese troops were stationed.  Forget about the bomb shelter.  Apart from his own house, there was no place to take cover when a gap came.  At this 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 how to avoid Japanese aircraft.

    Looking at the civilians who suffered heavy casualties in the bombing, Yang Zhen was helpless even though he was filled with righteous indignation.  When Wang Guangyu trapped Sawada Shigeru at the headquarters of the Fourth Division, in order to prevent the Japanese retaliatory air strikes, and also to avoid injuring innocent people during the fierce battle between the two sides.  Yang Zhen had planned to temporarily move the Jiamusi situation out of the city for one or two days as soon as possible.

    ¡°At least he can return to the city after he has dealt with the remaining troops of the Fourth Division, which is now a trapped beast and can only rely on the headquarters of the Fourth Division to resist.  It's a pity that Yang Zhen's words are almost worn out. Except for a 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 cause any casualties.  In order to ensure the safety of the people in the city, Yang Zhen could only mobilize air defense troops as much as possible and deploy them in the city to try to prevent the Japanese air raids.

    The power of the twelve reinforced anti-aircraft guns and six 20mm anti-aircraft guns that were barely scraped together is really limited.  Although these temporarily deployed air defense troops fought hard, the people in the city still suffered heavy casualties in the face of Japanese aircraft that bombed without scruples.

    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 Air Force from going crazy and indiscriminately attacking.  Under the almost crazy attacks of Japanese pilots, more than 140 people in the city were killed and more than 70 injured.

    On the contrary, because Yang Zhen¡¯s command had never thought of air cover and had received strict air defense training, the casualties were not large.  Only more than fifty people were killed or wounded in 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's recent indiscriminate air raid tactics, which had caused huge casualties to the people, Yang Zhen did not lose his mind.  He knew that the more he faced this situation, the more calm he had to be.

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