Chapter 586: The End of the Eastern Crusade
In a sense, the conditions offered by the Nationalist Government are indeed very generous, but the Central Committee does not dare to agree hastily, because this is a matter of the leadership of the troops, and when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated for the first time, they suffered a big loss in this regard, so the chairman and many veterans of the Nationalist Government were extremely cautious about this.
In the end, the Nationalist Government stated that the Nationalist Government would not be involved in the leadership of the Northern Air Force, and that the appointment and dismissal of all officers would be decided by the Nationalist side itself, but in the event of a large-scale battle in the North, the Nationalist Government would not refuse to allow the Air Force to participate in the war for any reason, and the United States would send a steering group to the Air Force Command of the Nationalist Government, and as long as the Nationalist side did not violate this article, the Nationalist Government would not cut off the supply of fuel to the absolute side.
The Nationalist Government really has no choice now, in terms of the army, Chiang Kai-shek can connive at his local government to arrest strong men everywhere, but in the air force, he Chiang Kai-shek can't add even one plane to the air force. In China's most difficult time, almost no country was willing to sell Chinese planes, and hundreds of millions of funds for the purchase of aircraft could only lie in the bank and depreciate. It was the darkest period of the Chinese Air Force, and those years made Chiang Kai-shek see the inadequacy of his air force.
Even now the Chinese Air Force is obviously not enough to defend the airspace of the Kuomintang region, the Japanese army fleet took off from the airfields in the southern region and the airfields in Thailand, Burma and other countries, and could even bomb Chongqing directly, and even the villa that Chiang Kai-shek entered was also subjected to a precise air strike similar to the temporary first operation of the Japanese army, fortunately Chiang Kai-shek happened to be active at that time and did not rest in the official residence, otherwise according to the losses and casualties at that time, it is likely that the old Chiang Kai-shek had already followed the former premier.
Since then, Chiang Kai-shek has been trying to improve the strength of the air force all the time, but he didn't expect the United States to enter the competition to give so many aircraft support to **, in addition to the Military Command Bureau also sent an urgent telegram, ** not long ago received a batch of Soviet Russian support aircraft, the number is quite huge, so now it is conservatively estimated that the number of ** air fighters has exceeded the government. , Whether it is Chiang Kai-shek or Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, they all know that with the current inflated strength, they will not care about the restriction order of the Nationalist Government at all.
Since he knew that the air force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region would be established with or without their white spoon support, the veteran general came up with such a trick, you build an army and I will raise soldiers, and then you and I will share this army, and the ownership belongs to you, but I will exchange gasoline and ammunition for part of the right to use, which is equivalent to the national government only giving out a few dozen tons of fuel and ammunition and having an air force with a huge number of fighters at no other cost.
He was a little worried about the olive branch thrown by the national government, and the chairman also sent a special report to ask Han Yunhua's opinion, Han Yunhua was brittle, cooperate, why not cooperate. The troops are our own, and the Kuomintang should not even think of mobilizing a plane if it does not have a good reason. On the other hand, without the help of the Nationalist Government, let alone 400 fighters, even if there were more fighters, the result would not be able to form a real air force. The army can use one rifle for 3 people, and there is no ammunition to capture and use. However, the Air Force does not rely on captured troops to fight wars, otherwise the fighters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region would not have been less and less.
On June 15, the central government finally made a decision to agree to cooperate with the Nationalist Government, allowing the Nationalist Government to send a representative from the Northern Air Force, and the maximum number of entries was limited to 20 inputs. The chairman's meaning is also very clear, if you want me to help you fight devils, it's okay, but you Lao Jiang can't use my air force to fight with the little devils at will, and we are not ambiguous for good reasons, but it is absolutely impossible to command blindly.
After the establishment of the Northern Air Force, Han Yunhua handed over everything to the newly appointed political commissar of the Air Force, Deng Gong, and handed over all the training matters to General Bayanluf and Shangguan Qingyun, while he himself returned to the Tongliao front, because the battle between the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Kwantung Army had reached the most critical juncture.
Since the end of March, the Eastern Crusade campaign launched by the Inner Mongolia Military Region has lasted for two months and 17 years, and both the Kwantung Army and the various military subdivisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have reached the limit of what they can bear; perhaps the Kwantung Army is a little better, and the Kwantung Army is much more convenient than the Inner Mongolia Military Region in terms of logistical supply and troop replenishment, and the puppet Manchurian puppet government is playing for the tiger, resulting in the consumption of the little devils being much smaller than that of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.
Although the various military subdivisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region fought very well, due to the serious consumption of ammunition, supply difficulties began to appear, and in addition, the remaining troops of Lu Zhengcao's headquarters in the central area of the battlefield were gradually decreasing, and the top level of the Inner Mongolia Military Region already believed that it was time to end this battle.
On the evening of June 15, the last infantry brigade of the Northeast People's Liberation Army jumped out of the enemy's encirclement, and the Japanese Kwantung Army independently mixed the 134th Brigade Regiment to occupy the main position of Pipa Dingzi at an altitude of 1,393 meters.
On June 16, all the newspapers and media of the puppet Manchurian controlled by the Japanese army rushed to report the brilliant military victory of the Kwantung Army, and at the same time, the Japanese puppet media in Japan and in the Chinese customs also boasted about the operation of the Kwantung Army, and in the data released by the Kwantung Army, the 180,000 elite of the Kwantung Army under the command of Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, won 160,000 elite infantry and 20,000 prisoners in a continuous battle for a month and a half. The brilliant record of wounding at least 150,000 infantry in China led to the almost total annihilation of Lu Zhengcao's headquarters under Han Yunhua in China, and the anti-coalition forces that had threatened the Japanese Empire for 11 years were completely erased from the map of North China by the powerful Kwantung Army.
Not just by coincidence or by intention, on June 16, the two sides in the northeastern theater ceased fighting almost simultaneously, and both sides invariably began to withdraw their troops and build new fortifications in areas conducive to defense, and the battlefield returned to a rare calm.
The Japanese army base camp was still very satisfied with the Kwantung Army Headquarters' encirclement and suppression operation, and at least the results on the surface were reasonable, and it took a month and a half to quell the huge wave of resistance in the 'Manchuria' area, which was not expected by the top brass of the base camp before the war. Therefore, in view of the major achievements of General Yamada Otozo and Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara in this battle, the base camp specially rewarded several senior officers of the Kwantung Army with different grades, although General Yamada Otomi was only awarded a second-class medal of courage with a low gold content, but compared with the incident that broke out in the puppet Manchurian region some time ago and was named a "disaster" by Japan, coupled with the fact that many elites of the Kwantung Army were completely erased from the battle sequence by the squadron, these unfavorable events, disasters, The tragedy and so on are enough to make General Yamada Otosan fall from power tragically, and the best result is equivalent to the dismal return of Shouichi Terauchi back then, and now it is rare to wait for a second-class medal of bravery.
However, Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara made a lot of money this time, although he was not promoted to army general, but he was awarded the title of Marquis of the Empire, and he was also awarded the first-class gold ** medal of high Japanese specifications by the military department, whether it is a title or a medal, it is not something that ordinary people can get. You must know that in Japan, the knighthood represents identity and status, and this military rank is not comparable at all, and the two are not on the same level at all. The title is a prerequisite for gaining a foothold in Japan, a general from a poor family is finally attributed to the poor family, although those large and small nobles in Japan will not look down on a general, but they will not bow down ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ]