Chapter 573: Good News from the Eastern Crusade to Europe (2)
When the news of the breakthrough made by the Northeast Army Subdivision on the Shuangliao front came, the entire Ulanhot Command suddenly boiled; since the military region now adopts a temporary system of two sets of team management, all the situations on the northern front will be reported to Ulanhot as soon as possible, and then sent to the place where it should be sent after Han Yunhua's approval. Qishuwu no pop-up window.qishuu.
After reading the good news jointly sent by Shen Yuquan and Wang Weizhou, Han Yunhua was overjoyed and immediately reported the victory to the Yan'an Party Central Committee, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the Military Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and the Zhangjiakou Headquarters. Wang Weizhou, commander of the Second Division of the Northeast Military Division, Jiang Feng, political commissar, and Huri Chabilige, commander of the Cavalry Division, were recorded as first-class meritorious service, and Wang Zhifu, commander of the First Brigade of the Second Division, Ju Fei, commander of the Second Brigade, and Lin Yongxiang, commander of the Third Brigade of the Second Division, were recorded as second-class meritorious service.
The Northeast Military Division's ability to achieve such results was both expected by Han Yunhua and unexpected by Han Yunhua, and this sentence seems to be contradictory, but in fact it is easy to understand. The Northeast Army Subdivision is attacking the Kwantung Army in the Northeast with all its might, and more than 200,000 troops is not a small number, and the Northeast Army Subdivision is the only strategic group in the Inner Mongolia Military Region that is dominated by cavalry. However, the role of cavalry on the Chinese battlefield is still undoubted, as long as cavalry is not used to attack cities or to fight enemy armored forces in the field, cavalry is still very useful.
As far as the two arms of infantry and cavalry are concerned, there is no comparison between the two sides in the field, and a well-equipped cavalry has no problem at all in dealing with more than three infantry, and the cavalry divisions of the Northeast Army Division alone have exceeded 12, and the number of invoices has exceeded 150,000, which requires the Kwantung Army to mobilize at least 500,000 cavalry units in order to confront the cavalry units of the Northeast Army Division in the field. In addition, the infantry units of the Northeast Army Division are also very strong, and on the whole, a single Northeast Army Division needs at least 50-600,000 troops of the Kwantung Army to fight against it, of course, this is only an ideal data, and does not count the gap between the weapons and equipment and logistical support of the two sides.
Therefore, the victory of the Northeast Army Division this time was basically predictable, and Han Yunhua also allocated the most powerful ace armored unit in his hand to the Northeast Army Division. If you want to talk about the general armored forces, it is good to say, as far as the BT-7 tank is concerned, it is not much cheaper than the Japanese Type 97. But who let Han Yunhua just pick out a T-34 tank brigade from Stalin. You must know that the T-34, a new type of tank, has just been equipped to the troops in the Soviet Union, although they gave Han Yunhua a trial model produced last year, which is worse than the current white-spoon improved model, but this has already made Comrade Stalin very painful. For these 150 T-34 tanks, Han Yunhua also paid a lot, the most direct manifestation is that in the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Inner Mongolia Military Region will drag Japan into at all costs, even if Germany jumps under the wall to force Japan to attack, Han Yunhua agreed, and also took the initiative to launch the largest battle in history against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
However, what made Han Yunhua feel unbelievable was that the Northeast Army Sub-district Jingran had achieved such remarkable results in a short period of time, completely annihilating an infantry brigade and a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army, killing one Japanese major general, 3 senior generals, 48 officers below the middle level, and capturing nearly 700 Japanese brigade chiefs of staff and below. Although there were fewer weapons and ammunition seized and not much equipment to be said, it was still a rare victory.
Originally, Han Yunhua thought that even if the Northeast Army Division wanted to break through the Japanese defense line, it would take 10 years at the shortest, and it would be a miracle if it broke through within a week, but he didn't expect that they would break through in 3 years, to be precise, it should be 75 hours to break through, which surprised Han Yunhua, a guy who was used to seeing big scenes and big battles.
Afterwards, Han Yunhua thought about it for a long time and always felt that the luck component of this battle accounted for a large part, but luck is also a kind of strength, and the military and political departments at their level still see this truth very thoroughly.
Although this crusade had a good start, there were still many problems, and the most worrying thing for Han Yunhua was the threat of the Japanese air force. At present, the Japanese army still uses some old fighters in the northeast region, and the most advanced ones are only Type 96 fighters, and they are not even as advanced as the fighters captured by the Japanese army by the aviation unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
But as the fighting escalates, the Japanese army will inevitably equip the most advanced fighters produced in China to the northeast. Now that the Japanese army's aviation units have gained almost all air supremacy in the northeast region, the armored units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region do not dare to attack in vain. After experiencing a sneak attack at night a few years ago, he had to pay attention when marching at night, which made Han Yunhua feel very aggrieved and at the same time feel a great crisis.
Han Yunhua knew that in the Bishan air battle a year ago, Japan used the latest Zero fighter to give the Nationalist Government a jaw-dropping result of 27:0 with almost zero casualties, and even Chairman Chiang scolded the Air Force for its incompetence. Obviously, Lao Chiang did not know or did not know the huge gap between the Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighters and the Japanese Zero fighters who were piloting the Soviet Union's aid to China at that time, and the 13 fighters of the Zero formation in that World War I took off from Hankou at 8:30 a.m. and landed at the forward base Yichang at 9:30 a.m. for refueling and pilot rest. At 12 o'clock, the formation took off again, showing a rendezvous with the middle attack group (27 aircraft) at 1:10 p.m., and after 20 minutes, the bombing of Chongqing began to return. According to Japanese records, about 20 minutes later, the Japanese 97th Division reconnaissance plane spotted the fighter formation of the Chinese Air Force, and the Japanese plane turned again. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese planes discovered the E15 formation of the Chinese Air Force at an altitude of 6,500 meters and the subsequent E16 (a total of 30 aircraft) at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and began to launch a surprise attack with lightning speed. It was undoubtedly a one-sided battle for the Japanese fighters with the advantage of altitude and equipment, and as the sky gradually calmed down, the Japanese planes returned to Yichang one after another, and the last Kitabatake Saburo fighter landed at 4:20 p.m. Subsequently, the Japanese media advertised the results of this battle as shooting down 30 Chinese planes, and some recorded that they shot down 27 planes, and they did not lose a single one. According to the records of the Chinese Air Force, 13 of the E1525 and E169 of the third and fourth teams were shot down in air battles, 11 were injured and forced to land, and 10 pilots were killed and 8 were wounded.
Although Japan's Zero fighter began production in 1939, it was actually equipped with less than 300 by 1942. Han Yunhua knows that starting this year, the Japanese army's production of Zero fighters will enter a peak, and in the next few years, the production of this most famous aircraft of the Japanese naval aviation during World War II and the signature model of Japan in World War II will directly exceed tens of thousands.
Han Yunhua didn't care about it before, anyway, the Inner Mongolia Military Region didn't have many strategic targets at that time, and Japan made a big move, but now it's different, the Inner Mongolia Military Region not only has its own aviation units, but also has its own armored forces and transport units, which are always threatened by Japanese fighters. The Inner Mongolia Military Region must have its own air force, and at the same time it needs a large amount of air defense equipment.
At present, there are only two countries capable of supporting the Inner Mongolia Military Region, one is the Soviet Union and the other is the United States. Now that both countries have a similar attitude toward China, both of which see China as the most important pawn to contain Japan, Han Yunhua pondered how to get something good out of the hands of Stalin and Roosevelt.
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