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    Although Shigeichi Namada changed the order of Ushijima Mitsuru without authorization from the military headquarters.  ¡¾.Com text¡¿He was extremely dissatisfied as he went north to Baoqing instead of west to Boli.  But the dissatisfaction ended with dissatisfaction, and the promised aviation cover did not change.  After all, the 11th 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, no one in the 11th Division thought about air defense at all.

    In the eyes of these somewhat arrogant Japanese officers and soldiers, the air warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army are invincible.  Since the China Army was severely damaged on the battlefield in the China Pass, it was the same with the Kwantung Army.  No one thought about when the new air cover promised by the corps commander would arrive.  They all thought that as a dignified lieutenant general, Commander Namada Juichi would never lie.

    Yes, Lieutenant General Namada Juichi did not lie, he told the truth.  General Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of the Kwantung Army, was indeed attacked at two major airports. After almost all the aviation forces originally allocated to the Fifth Army were destroyed, he promised to 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 corps as the highest command of the Kwantung Army's aviation force, firmly disagreed with the deployment of a large number of new flying teams to support the combat operations of the Fifth Army.

    The reason for Saburo Endo's opposition is simple. Although the Kwantung Army's aviation force has expanded rapidly, it still has to shoulder the air defense mission across Manchuria.  With great uncertainties in Jiangbei, it is impossible for the Aviation Corps to transfer all combat aircraft to the Fifth Army.

    In Saburo Endo¡¯s view, 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 do not have such great capabilities.

    Although he also admitted that the other party¡¯s planning of the two plans for the airport surprise attack was classic, planning and implementation are two different things.  No matter how good the plan is, you must have the ability to implement it.  Unless Jiangbei intervenes, the other party will not be able to carry out this air strike at all.  It takes at least a year to train a pilot from basic skills to being able to fly an aircraft and perform missions.  , after the Kwantung Army Aviation Corps allocated one-third of its forces to the Fifth Army, the forces responsible for air defense in other important areas have been stretched thin. At present, it is really not possible to allocate too many forces to support the Fifth Army.  Unless new forces are mobilized to reinforce the Fifth Army at the risk of empty air defenses in other areas.

    But this was absolutely unacceptable to Saburo Endo, who had vowed not to let a bomb fall in Manchuria from Jiangbei.  In Saburo Endo's view, although the quality of Jiangbei's aviation troops was low, the performance of their aircraft was lagging behind.  But they are large in number and have heavy bombers with a combat radius sufficient to cover the southern Manchuria heavy industrial base.

    With the Kwantung Army currently 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 was Jiangbei, not the so-called anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces.

    And not all the aviation units promised by the base camp to be incorporated into the Kwantung Army have been in place. In fact, the strength of the Kwantung Army aviation group was not as great as it appears on paper.  After losing nearly one-third of his troops at once, Saburo Endo, who was really struggling 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 he sends more fighter planes, he will be an extra-large idiot who is even more idiotic than an idiot.

    Umezu Yoshijiro insisted on increasing the tone, 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 Meijiro's attitude was extremely tough, Endo Saburo, who refused to bow at all, only sent a squadron of reconnaissance planes to deal with the errands.  As for the rest, there is no need to discuss it.

    Even this reconnaissance aircraft team that has been dispatched and just 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.  Lying down at the airport, there is no way to 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 Masamune 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, they also raised their rifles to salute the Imperial warriors in the sky.  I just didn't expect that what these planes brought was not good news, but bombs that covered their faces.

    Because the Japanese army was too careless, they did not have the slightest precaution.  These twenty??tons of napalm were used to maximum effect.  The outcome of the bombing of the Japanese troops in Qingyuan was no better than that of the 12th Regiment on the front line of Jinshagang, and the losses were even more severe.  Because napalm bombs are even more lethal when there are buildings than in field situations.

    Seeing the raging fire burning 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 code to send the secret code for the success of the bombing "Sunset in the Sky" to Yuan Bin who was waiting for the results of their bombing at Jiamusi Airport.

    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.  Yang Zhen received the telegram from Yuan Bin and read it carefully before putting it aside.  The success of the aviation surprise attack was not a surprise to Yang Zhen.

    Yang Zhen, who did not 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 has not been able to have a decisive impact on the battle situation.

    At this moment, Yang Zhen, who had turned his mind from the front line of Jinshagang back to Baoqing County, seemed not to hear the deafening sound of gunfire coming from outside the window.  There was no joy at all for the success of the aviation surprise attack.  Still looking at the map carefully.

    While fighting fiercely with the Japanese 12th Regiment on the Jinshagang front line, the battle outside Baoqing was equally fierce, even more tragic than the Jinshagang front line.  Due to the terrain restrictions, the Japanese troops on the front line of Jinshagang could only adopt a front-line push attack.  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 once.

    But for Peng Shilu, who was fighting hard at Baoqing Dongguan, he had to face the Japanese army's attacks from two directions.  After the loss of Beiguan, Peng Shilu commanded the troops not only to deal with frontal attacks, but also to defend against the Japanese flank attack from Beiguan to the south.  The Japanese army that besieged Baoqing County immediately divided into two groups after occupying Dongguan. In addition to directing a large force to attack Baoqing County, they also sent a reinforced squadron to attack from north to south to counter the Japanese army that attacked Dongguan from the front.  Forming 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 Jiaxinzi's front line.  Only less than one brigade of troops was left to continue the attack on the Jiaxinzi line. The main force, in addition to bypassing several defensive support points and heading towards the Baoqing city wall, turned most of the troops to the direction of Dongguan.

    Peng Shilu not only had to face the Japanese attack from both sides in Dongguan, but also in the direction of Dongguan where there was basically no artillery support, the firepower gap between the two sides was even greater than that of the Jinshagang front line.  Under the Japanese attack from both sides, Peng Shilu, who was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength and firepower, 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.  Nearly half.  At the same time, Baoqing's city wall was also blasted with concentrated artillery fire by the Japanese army to create several large slopes that were convenient for infantry attacks, and they were pushed up the city wall several times.  They even broke into the city a few times.

    If it weren¡¯t for the troops remaining in the city, they would have 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 who broke into the city. The city defense was almost not broken through.

    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  The defense of 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 kilometer from his headquarters, he still insisted on not moving the camp.  Yang Zhen not only rejected Peng Shilu's request to mobilize troops, but also strengthened the company that escorted Xia Boxun into Baoqing 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 line between Jia Xinzi and his backer.  That is, although the line between Jiaxinzi and the backer is not as important as Dongguan for the defense of Baoqing's periphery, 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 the Jiaxinzi line, you can go west to Boli at any time to support the 29th Division in the battle.  You can quickly shrink back to Mishan along the road to the south.  Retreating by road is much faster than taking the large swampland 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, while the southern part of Baoqing has actually been abandoned.  In terms of the Japanese army's marching ability and physical fitness, it created great convenience for its maneuvering in Baoqing.

    Capturing Baoqing County is important, but for the 11th Division, what is more important now is to obtain a maneuvering space where they can advance, attack, and retreat and defend.  For now, opening up the highway in Baoqing and gaining room for large-scale maneuverability is more important to the 11th Division than obtaining a simple tactical support point.

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