The news of the attack on the Japanese field airfield and assembly area soon reached the headquarters of the Kwantung Army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kenkichi Ueda, commander of the Kwantung Army, who received the news, was worried about the outcome of the battle and dealt a great blow to him, and he originally planned to gather forces and attack the Soviet airfield, but he never expected that the Soviet army would actually attack his field airfield in turn, resulting in the destruction of 42 ground planes.

As the promoter and planner of the northward expansion plan, his junior staff officer Masanobu Tsuji felt even more angry.

If the news of this defeat reached the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, the Japanese emperor might take the initiative to propose an armistice with the Soviet Union, considering that the Soviet Union was difficult to deal with. At that time, his plan to advance north will be in vain, and it will be difficult for him to maintain his position in the Japanese military circles.

You must know that this war was not a decision of the Japanese army headquarters, but a war initiated by the Kwantung Army without the consent of Tokyo. If it succeeds, the headquarters will certainly not blame it, and if it fails, all the decision-makers of the Kwantung Army will suffer.

Masanobu Tsuji, who was angry and frustrated, flew from Xinjing (Changchun) to Hailar on an American reconnaissance plane to "supervise the war."

The last time he flew on an American-style reconnaissance plane, it was twenty days ago. At that time, the Japanese Yama County Wing launched an attack on the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces to no avail, and the cavalry wing of the East 800 Zang was completely annihilated.

This time, just like last time, he was also going to curse. Scolding whom? This person's military rank is much higher than his own, not as simple as Osa, but Lieutenant General Toru Saga of the Kwantung Army Air Force. A young staff officer actually dared to scold the lieutenant general? Isn't this death?

That's right, it's death, and Masanobu Tsuji is a person who loves death very much in the history we know. How to die?

During a march, when the soldiers were so thirsty that they could no longer be thirsty, he actually poured out the little water left in his kettle in front of the people, and he was the one who suffered, but he died of thirst that time.

N years after the end of World War II, he went to Laos again to incite the people to stir up trouble and plot to overthrow the government. But how can the people of Laos listen to you, a Japanese, talking nonsense? As a result, he was arrested by the Lao government on charges of espionage.

The small Japanese Empire is already very good at doing death, and this small country actually dares to go against the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union, looking for death! I didn't expect that there was a more death-loving Masanobu Tsuji in Japan. It can be said that "Japan is the first in the world, and Tsujimasa is the first in Japan".

After arriving in Hailar, Masanobu Tsuji immediately went to the headquarters of the Second Flight Group and found Lieutenant General Toru Saga, who was the person he wanted to scold.

"Saga-kun, General Ueda is very dissatisfied with the results of this battle, how do you explain it?" As soon as Masanobu Tsuji saw Tetsuji Saga, he didn't even say polite words, and began to curse.

Although Tetsuji Saga has the rank of lieutenant general, the person who scolded him in front of him is just a small young minister, and in terms of military rank, he doesn't have to be afraid of Masanobu Tsuji at all.

But this little young staff officer can represent the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, if Tetsuji Saga says the wrong thing and offends this little Masanobu Tsuji, then Kenkichi Ueda will come to trouble him. So Tetsuji Saga didn't dare to offend this person.

"Masa-kun Tsuji, after the arrival of the Soviet planes, we dispatched 120 fighters in time, shot down 36 enemy planes, and forced the Soviet flying group to retreat." Tetsuji Saga explained.

"So, what happened to the assembly place of the imperial army and the field airfield in the area of the Kangyur Temple and the Temple of General Amugulang? How do you explain the fact that 22 planes were blown up on the ground, that the weapons depot, the quartermaster depot, and the fuel depot suffered heavy losses, and that hundreds of Imperial soldiers were killed on the ground? Why was there no timely response? ”

Tetsuji Saga, who is also a face-saving person, thought for a while and explained: "The Soviet planes came so suddenly, as soon as they came, they dropped heavyweight bombs on the runway, and on the runway, around the tarmac, more than a dozen craters were blown up, and the planes could not take off at all.

After receiving the news of the air raid, we had already dispatched 120 planes to the Hailar airfield to resist, repelling the Soviet flying group and avoiding greater losses. Otherwise, the number of casualties and losses will not stop there. ”

"Yo Xi, what do you mean by Saga-kun, your Second Flight Group is doing a good job? You repelled the Soviet flying group in time, avoided even greater losses, and made a great contribution, do you want to award a medal to all your pilots? Masanobu Tsuji asked fiercely.

"No, Masa-kun Tsuji, we failed to prevent Soviet air strikes and should not be awarded."

"So, you admit that you made a mistake in preventing Soviet air raids?" Masanobu Tsuji immediately fought back.

Actually, Tetsuji Saga didn't make a mistake. He had already dispatched Hailar's planes in time to return fire on the Soviet flying fleet and avoid even greater losses.

At that time, Japan, a new imperialist country, had not yet applied radar technology, and several White Russians who had infiltrated the Soviet barracks were captured by Manturov, and it was difficult for them to prevent enemy air raids.

However, in the face of the arrogant and unreasonable young staff officer in front of him, Tetsuji Saga could only "admit" his mistakes. "Yes, Masa-kun Tsuji, we do have a lot of faults in this matter."

"And what are you going to do to remedy it?"

"Just before the headquarters of the flight group was moved to Hailar, Komatsubara-kun and I had already planned a sneak attack on the enemy's Tamsk (Tamchag Prague) airfield, and were preparing to attack the enemy's airfield."

"Are you sure you can make it? They have already made a sneak attack on our field airfield and will not be prepared for our future sneak attacks. Masanobu Tsuji didn't expect much from this plan.

"It will definitely succeed, the Tamsk airfield of the Soviet army is 125 kilometers from the front line. An airfield so far from the front line will not have too many air defense units deployed, and that airfield is only a newly opened field airfield, and there will not be many air defense facilities.

The last air battle has proved that the combat power of our Kwantung Army aviation is superior to that of the Soviet Air Force, and in the air they are not the opponent of our Great Japanese Imperial Army.

Even if they send fighter jets to respond to our sneak attack, they will not be able to avoid their defeat. Our Imperial Japanese Army will always be invincible! ”

In history as we know it, the Japanese air raid would have been successful, and the Soviet Union was unprepared for the sudden and deep Japanese air raid, having shot down 99 planes and 25 Soviet planes on the ground, for a total loss of 124 aircraft. This was the first time in the history of Asian air warfare that a large group of aircraft successfully raided an enemy airfield, and the tactics achieved a surprising victory, causing the Soviet army to lose air supremacy.

But how could Manturov, who has a little memory of this history, allow this to happen? He has long been in the vicinity of the airfield, as well as 20 kilometers from the border, deploying his improved Рус-2 radar system, capable of detecting aircraft activity within a radius of 150 kilometers.

As long as there were Japanese planes, before they entered the territory of Outer Mongolia, Soviet planes were ready to meet the enemy's attack. Moreover, the aircraft used by the Soviet Union this time was not the I-15 biplane fighter used in history, but the most advanced I-16 (И-16) fighter at that time, and its combat effectiveness was not as bad as Saga Tetsuji said, and it was not inferior to the Japanese Kwantung Army Air Force.

Crushing the Japanese army's air raid plan was only part of Manturov's plan, and he not only wanted to make the devil's raid plan ruined, but also to give them an even bigger gift.