Chapter 135: I Tune the Tiger, Are You Away from the Mountain?
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Since he came to Manchuria in 1932 and has worked step by step to this day, he has reformed the Manchurian army very well, completely controlled the hands of the imperial army, and eliminated all the disobedient ones.
Therefore, when he himself recalled the situation of reforming the puppet Manchu army, he said: "Since the 10th year of Taisho (1921) in Guangdong, I have held the conviction that the Chinese army must be fundamentally reformed. After serving as a military adviser to Manchukuo, he put into practice what he had studied in the past, and after five years of hard work, he achieved unexpected results. ”
After Sasaki took office as a military adviser to the puppet Manchurians, he claimed that he would "reorganize" the puppet Manchu army as his "life's great cause", and his purpose was to prepare for the battle at the pass, to assist the Kant Emperor Puyi in returning to Beijing, and to hope that "perhaps a Wu Sangui-like figure would emerge" in North China. And because Sasaki Toichi spent five years "rearing" the puppet Manchu army with "results", he was called the "father of the Manchu army" by the Japanese invaders.
Now, seeing that the work in Manchuria has been successfully completed, and he is about to leave Manchuria, there is a Yichun ** army at this time. This army is different from other anti-Japanese alliances, and their positional warfare is actually very good.
Sasaki has been preparing for this time, he is going to sweep the three rivers flat, and then gather a large army to attack Yichun. Only by destroying them can you leave Manchuria victoriously.
Unexpectedly, this Yichun's men and horses took the initiative to attack, and they still came out to rob things.
The bandits still had a good plan consistently. When robbing Xingshan Street, they actually blew up the railway and railway bridge, and planted mines on the road. What does this mean, they are short of winter supplies, especially food.
Jiamusi's reinforcements and Yubara's reinforcements were moving slowly on the road because they encountered landmines on the way.
Yes, they have mines.
So, do you want to ask Xingshan Fortress to send troops? On the way to Xingshan Fortress, there must have been Yichun's people in ambush, and they were even ready to ambush. Can't go out.
What would have happened if the army of the Heungsan fortress had losses?
Could it be that the Soviets were luring the troops of the fortress away from the fortress?
When Sasaki thought of this, he took a breath and immediately sent a telegram to the Xingshan Fortress and told him his questions.
Now, it's ten o'clock in the morning.
Izane received a telegram from Sasaki Toichi and decided not to send troops.
At this time, the three captains knocked on his office.
Izogan knew that the three big ones couldn't help it.
Sure enough, the three big Zuo came in and asked him directly, when are we going to send troops?
"General Sasaki and I always thought that it was the Soviet army luring us out of the fortress. Therefore, we cannot leave. ”
Osakaichi: "Why? ”
Izogan said: "On the way to Yubara and Jiamusi reinforcements, they found a large number of mines on the road. You know, the Anti-Alliance, the bandits, they don't have this kind of weapon. So who is behind this plan? It was the Soviet Army. We were in the fortress and could withstand 50,000 Soviet troops. But after leaving the fortress, he could only withstand 5,000 Soviet troops. ”
Osaji: "That's speculation. In my opinion, aircraft reconnaissance should be dispatched. If there were no Soviet troops, but they got a couple of mines from the USSR, then we should have sent troops. ”
Osaji: "If the Soviet Union sent troops, why didn't we have intelligence?" ”
September 25, 1937. Ten o'clock in the morning, Longzhen County, Bei'an Airport.
The two reconnaissance planes took off, circled in a circle, and headed straight for the east.
At 10:15, they arrived in Yubara Prefecture. After flying a short distance along the road, I saw an army parked on the road, and corpses and wounded were placed on the side of the road.
I flew north to a station and saw a train **, next to the hundred and ten corpses, as well as many wounded soldiers. The soldiers were scattered on the railroad and were very undisciplined. This is the Raider.
At half past ten, they arrived at Jiamusi, and then flew north to Xingshan Street. The coal mine on Xingshan Street is no longer empty, and the coal mine has been demolished. Now, I can see very clearly on the plane, from time to time there are people around to dismantle things, and some even come to pull coal in cars and load coal in baskets.
Further north, when I reached the sky above the fortress, I saw three teams and more than a dozen cars at the exit of the fortress. They were armed with light weapons and were ready to go.
This was the fortress unit of the Imperial Army.
Turning east, flying not far, about a few dozen miles away, I saw a large group of men and horses and porters on the road, and then forward, there was a team of carriages and a team of pack horses in front of me.
This is Yichun's troops and the people who are being coerced.
These people panicked when they saw the plane coming, and some of them began to drop their things and run in all directions. There are men with guns on both sides to maintain order. However, these people with guns are also carrying things.
A convoy of cars has arrived in Yichun and is unloading. Many people on the ground panicked when they saw the plane coming.
A few people came up on the street, and they pieced together a piece of writing from a few sheets.
The plane circled downward, and finally saw clearly, and it read: "There are prisoners of war today." "What do you mean? The order of the sheets changed: "There are Japanese prisoners of war." ”
After a while, machine guns on the ground began to fire.
The reconnaissance plane flew back along the highway and saw several hundred people on the blocking position on the Jinshantun line. The hundreds of people were in the trenches, and when they saw the planes coming, several machine gunners began to fire at the air. Others are motionless, motionless, motionless.
Flying south again, I saw that the long group of miners carrying things was still walking on the road.
Returning to the vicinity of the fortress, he carefully searched along both sides of the road, and saw only a few Japanese scouts in the fortress, scouts scouting along the ridges on both sides of the road, and they didn't seem to see anyone. The Scout saw them and waved at the plane.
Flew to the vast area on the east side of the fortress and searched carefully for half a day, but found nothing.
The aircraft completed reconnaissance and returned to the airfield.
At half past ten, Jiamusi and the fortress received a telegram from the air brigade at the same time, which described in detail what had been seen, but was inconclusive.
All three of Izogan's big samurai saw the telegram.
Izane sent a telegram asking for Sasaki's opinion. Sasaki was very tactful when he called back, thinking that the problem was not a big problem, but it was not easy to order, so please make your own decisions.
Izogan was still hesitant, and his opinion was to ask directly to the Kwantung Army command to go to war.
His hesitant attitude infuriated the three Dazuo.
Three Dazuo left the headquarters, and one Dazuo said angrily: "Bastard! If you become a major general, you will have no courage and just want to keep your position! ”
The other said: "As an imperial soldier, I will attack on my own. ”
The third said: "My scouts have already reconnoitred the terrain along the way, and there is no ambush at all." I'll also attack, leaving the logisticians and artillerymen to guard the fortress with him discreetly! ”
The first Dazuo said: "Is the Jinshantun position so afraid?" In my opinion, it is completely possible to break through the positions of Jinshantun by assaulting from the flank, without artillery. As an Imperial soldier, I take responsibility for my actions. ”
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1. How did reconnaissance aircraft reconnaisance in the era of double-wing aircraft?