Chapter 599: Epilogue 1
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The Type 97 tanks replenished by the Japanese army are not only inferior to Tomahawks and Sword assault guns in terms of quality, but also are no longer equal in quantity. Under Jiang Li's order, the field corps used tanks, assault guns, and aviation to open the way almost all the way, forcing the Japanese army to fight for attrition.
However, the Japanese army destroyed the tanks of the Northwest Army every month, and the number of assault guns still could not catch up with the speed of the production of tanks in the Northwest. It also made more and more tanks of the Northwest Army appear on the battlefield.
The weakness of the aviation force made the Japanese infantry have to use their own flesh and blood to rely on positions to block the pace of the Northwest Army. A few years ago, there was an astonishing reversal in the North China Battlefield, and the Northwest Army had tried its best to avoid fighting a field battle with the Japanese army, but now the Japanese army had begun to avoid the Northwest Army from fighting directly in the field. Otherwise, once the two sides are anxious, the Northwest Army mobilizes enough armored forces to break through, which is no less than a disaster for the Japanese army. The tanks of the North-Western Army, in the field, were not at all something that the infantry could deal with. Tomahawk tanks, which already weigh more than 30 tons, and small-caliber artillery can no longer be shaken, not to mention the Japanese infantry whose weapons and equipment have not been greatly improved compared to 1937. Therefore, the impact power of tanks and assault guns in field artillery was not at all something that the Japanese army could hold up at this time.
The best way to deal with a tank group is only a tank group of similar size, or even larger.
The war lasted until June 1942, and the Northwest Army's tank tactics to open the way caused the armored troops to suffer certain losses, although the Japanese army used grenadiers to fight out more than 200 tanks and assault guns of the Northwest Army. But at this time, the casualty ratio of the Japanese army had begun to exceed that of the Northwest Army. is using a fast speed to move towards Jiang Li's ideal ratio of death. Compared with when Sun Liren first attacked the Mule River, even if the losses were removed, the Central Plains Field Corps had more than 500 tanks and assault guns. The Type 97 and Type 95 tanks that appeared on the battlefield by the Japanese army were almost completely destroyed.
Yang Hucheng, Sun Liren pushed the battle line from Linying across the Luohe River, Zhumadian, to Queshan County, only a few dozen kilometers to the south, is the Yangtze River. And Zhao Tieshu and Zhang Chujiu also fought Kaifeng, Lankao, Zhoukou, and Bingfeng pointed directly at the important town of Xuzhou. The urgency in the direction of eastern Henan and southern Henan made Tian Junliu and Matsui Shigen in a hurry. In the face of the unprecedented counterattack of the Northwest Army, as well as the rout suffered by the Japanese army on all fronts, it was caught off guard for a while. The two had to draw troops from other places to block the Northwest Army. At the same time, an urgent request was made to the base camp for aviation, tanks, and a large number of additional troops.
It's just that Jiang Li's action is not over, when Tian Junliu transferred troops to the Xuzhou area to avoid being attacked by the Northwest Army into Xuzhou, and Shandong cut off the Jinpu Road, there was already a certain emptiness in the troops in the direction of Hebei.
When Tian Junliu was organizing the defense of the Jinpu line and intercepting the Northwest Army from the east of the Longhai Road. A strategic deception that surprised even the British and American powers was formed. Jiang Li transferred the Tian Jianlong Independent Armored Division, which had been hidden for a long time, and the other more than 300 tanks and assault guns that had been replenished by the Central Plains Field Corps. With Wang Tiehan's 6th Army, there were also two independent heavy artillery brigades, some independent artillery guns exceeded 200 105mm, 150mm heavy guns, the only strategic siege artillery brigade in the northwest, and 6 210mm train guns. More than 300,000 people, a huge torrent of armor went north along the Pinghan Road. A round of indiscriminate bombing directly defeated the Japanese garrison division in Anyang.
At the same time, Li Du's group army in Suiyuan had also been launched, with more than 200,000 troops, and Zhou Dafu's mixed armored brigade of several hundred tanks and armored vehicles to return to Suiyuan. Although at this time, the Falcon fighters had been put into service in batches to the front-line combat units, which to a certain extent narrowed the gap between the two sides in terms of aircraft types, but the number of Falcon fighters in service was far less than that of the Flying Dragon and Tenglong fighters. Unable to change the reality of the relative backwardness of Japanese fighters. Under the pressure of Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia, as well as the loss of naval aviation, the Japanese army's ability in aircraft manufacturing was also diluted, at least the rapid growth of industrial strength in the northwest made the Japanese army's superiority in quantity and aircraft quality also equalized by the superiority of the Northwest Army in industry and aircraft quality.
The rapid deterioration of the situation began with the march into the South Seas, Tian Junliu had roared more than once in the headquarters, although the Northwest Army was also sharp before, but the Japanese army relied on its relatively strong industrial strength to always be able to suppress the Northwest Army. The Northwest Army has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, and compared with the Japanese army in China, it is even going downhill, and the navy and the southern army are deeply trapped in Southeast Asia and are unable to spare energy to look north. The northwest, which has been accumulating strength, was suddenly launched after the Japanese army moved south in a big way and was fully rolled out, and Tian Junliu felt scared when he thought about it. What scared Tian Junliu even more was that at this time, the Northwest Army surpassed the Japanese army in infantry light firepower and machine rifle firepower, and was gradually regaining its superiority in artillery, and it already had a slight advantage in aviation and an absolute advantage in armored troops.
The Japanese army now needs to rely on more troops to have the ability to fight a decisive battle with the Northwest Army in the field. It's a pity that the Japanese army doesn't have such a huge force now, relying on the troops at hand, in the face of the Northwest Army's attacks everywhere, Tian Junliu can only rely on the troops at hand to focus on fortification. Even if it is a base camp, it can only urgently draw troops from the Northeast Army to the south. It's just that this can't fundamentally solve the problem, and the Northeast Army that has been transferred is basically just an ordinary infantry, and it can change the pattern of the arms on both sides, and at most it can only delay a little time, and the speed of the Japanese army's increase in troops is by no means as fast as that of the Northwest Army. And the expansion speed of the armored forces of the Northwest Army and the aviation force made Tian Jun feel a little desperate in his hands.
Li Du's 5th Army in Suiyuan quickly cleared the Japanese forces on the periphery of Guisui and severed the connection between Guisui and Datong. Wang Tiehan's 6th Army went north with all its might.
At this time, the Japanese army began to understand Jiang Li's strategic intentions, but when the Japanese army reacted, they urgently transferred the Kwantung Army from the northeast to the south, and the northwest was in the northwest after Tan Zixin, and the paratroopers that had not been used were clustered in Tianzhen and Zhangbei, and the rear of the Japanese army came to a gorgeous airborne. The Japanese army in Shanxi had been busy dealing with the Jin Sui Army and Zhu Zong's 18th Army. The Japanese army was fortified everywhere, but the strength of the large rear was relatively much weaker. This large-scale airborne landing once again set a new record for the Northwest paratroopers in western Henan.
The large-scale airborne landing of the Northwest Army directly cut off Suiyuan and Shanxi, and blocked the route of the Japanese army's northward retreat in Shanxi, directly changing the balance of power between the two sides. This meant that the Japanese air force in North China had to pass through the entire skies over Shanxi Province in order to reach the core area in the northwest. And the Japanese army in Hebei will be attacked from several sides at the same time.
The unprecedented largesse of the Northwest Army shocked all the powers, especially the defeat of Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia, and the defeat of Chiang's Central Army in Savage Mountain, when it was dealing with the westward invasion of the Japanese army in India, the Northwest Army had already completed an astonishing reversal in the north.
The all-out counteroffensive of the Northwest Army also made the people who had been disturbed by the war for more than four years unprecedentedly excited. After more than four years, I finally saw the hope of victory. The excitement of the Republic of China naturally meant the fear of Japan, and the Japanese army urgently dispatched all the Fayabusa fighters that could be mobilized, as well as a large number of 96 fighters, and even a huge air formation composed of a part of the local Zero War to support North China, and there were as many as 150 Japanese fighter groups and more than 200 bombers in the sky over Tianzhen.
At this time, the Japanese army in Suiyuan had become the end of the crossbow, and Li Du's Fifth Army had already controlled most of Suiyuan. Got enough airfields to move forward. In the past six months or so, due to the increase in production in the back, the Qianlong 3 fighters mass-produced in the northwest have been put into service with 4 squadrons, 53 Qianlong, 71 Feilong and Tenglong fighters, more than 130 Zephyr dive bombers, and 43 Huamao ground attack aircraft. Although it is slightly inferior to the Japanese fighters in terms of quantity, in terms of performance, it has comprehensively surpassed the Japanese fighter group.
As a result, in the inconspicuous place of Tianzhen, the largest air battle in history broke out. Six hundred and dozens of planes on both sides almost obscured the sky above Tianzhen.
The mixed formation of the Hayabusa, which the Japanese army had high hopes for, encountered the Qianlong 3 jet fighters, which had reached a speed of 700 kilometers and dozens of kilometers, with a speed difference of nearly 200 kilometers per hour. More than 50 jet planes, almost without much fighting back by the Japanese fighters, slaughtered the Hayabusa and Zero Battles, which were the first of the Japanese army. The original slight numerical superiority of the Japanese planes was quickly rewritten after a few rounds of engagement, especially the Falcon type, the main combat force, after a large number of zero battles were shot down, those biplanes that had been seriously backward were pursued by the hidden dragon and the dragon, once they were targeted, they did not even have the ability to escape.
This air battle, which was the largest and highest standard in Asia, ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese air force, and the Northwest invested in the Qianlong as a cross-era jet fighter on a large scale, showing the Northwest's excellent technology in the field of aviation. It made the Japanese air force desperate.
Although the Kwantung Army entered the pass on a large scale to support, the air battle of Tianzhen had completely ended the Japanese army's superiority in aircraft. The Qianlong fighter, which has been painstakingly brewing for more than six years and continues to invest a lot of money, has soared into the sky after being a toddler, falling countless times, and paying more than a dozen pilots, a heavy price that is unimaginable to the great powers. In the following time, all the Japanese planes that encountered the Qianlong fighters in the air, unless they scattered and fled, and the Qianlong had no time to pursue, the other Japanese planes could not escape the fate of being shot down.
With the advent of jet aircraft, the warring countries, including Germany's ME109, Britain's Spitfire, and the United States' Thunderbolt, all became obsolete.
Although there were only more than four squadrons of Qianlong fighters in service at this time, after being assigned to the troops, the number of Japanese sorties shot down rose in a straight line, and with the gradual increase in the number of Qianlong fighters serving in the front-line troops, the situation in which the Japanese army and aviation had an advantage was gone forever.
The Northwest Air Force quickly took air supremacy in the combat zone and intensified its bombing of Japanese garrisons, while Japan, which was short of resources, simply could not afford to equip its combat units with anti-aircraft guns. Until this time, the bomber group in the northwest, especially the westerly dive bomber, and the Huamao ground attack aircraft were able to play their full role. The precise fixed-point strikes of the westerly dive bombers made the Japanese transport troops in the rear, and the trains that supplied the supplies only dared to run at night.
And the heavy artillery group of the Japanese army, after losing air supremacy, was also directly exposed to the blows of the Northwest Air Force. A large number of artillery pieces that were inconvenient to transport were directly destroyed by Zephyr bombers. The Flower Cat ground attack aircraft were also able to attack the Japanese ground forces with impunity.
After losing air supremacy, the chain reaction triggered by the Japanese army began to lag behind the Northwest Army in all aspects, both in air and ground firepower. The casualty ratio of the two sides was further increased, and as the Japanese casualties surpassed those of the Northwest Army, it was even worse for the Japanese army, which was already less powerful than the Northwest Army.
It is worth mentioning that the Qianlong fighters in the northwest are only used in the first line between Shanxi and Hebei for the time being, and the Japanese troops in eastern Henan, Xuzhou, and southern Henan can still hold on for the time being, but the Japanese troops in Hebei and Shanxi are in danger, and the Kwantung Army, which has been used to fight against the Soviet Union, has to speed up the exit, but in the face of the fact that there are 100 or so Tomahawk tanks, sword assault guns, and 100 planes put into the battlefield every month, the weapons and troops in the northwest are fighting more and more at this time.
Wang Tiehan can directly draw all kinds of tanks, assault guns to break through 800, there is no threat of Japanese aircraft, Wang Tiehan's 6th Army all the way to Shijiazhuang, while attacking Shijiazhuang, can also send a force to defeat the Japanese army in the direction of Jingjing, cut off the Zhengding Road, now, more than 50,000 Japanese troops in Shanxi have been completely cut off the retreat, in the north there is Li Du's 5th Group Army, in the south of Jin has more than 100,000 Jin Sui Army, the 18th Group Army a total of more than 200,000 troops counterattack, The retreat from Zhengding Road to Shijiazhuang in the east was also cut off by Wang Tiehan's 6th Army.
The sharp deterioration of the war situation in North China and the outbreak of combat effectiveness of the Northwest Army not only caused the shock of Britain and the United States and other European powers. It caused great panic in the Japanese base camp. Fifty or sixty thousand Japanese troops were trapped in the encirclement of the Northwest Army Group, and such an appetite and skill were not possible for Britain and the United States at this time. At this time, the Japanese army swept through Southeast Asia, which was a sign of complacency, but in the north, it was hit by the Northwest Army, and what was even more terrible was that the casualties of the Japanese army had exceeded that of the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army was not much higher than the tanks and aircraft production of the powers. But replenishment to the front line was fatal for the Japanese army, which had low supply capacity.
Although a large number of Kwantung Army moved south, Li Du's Fifth Army also conquered Guisui and Ulanqab. Recover his Suiyuan Province. Soldiers forced Zhangjiakou and Zhangbei area. Fierce battle with the Kwantung Army in Tenzhen. Although the more than 200,000 Kwantung Army that went south showed all its combat strength, it faced the absolute superiority of the Northwest Army in tanks, the superiority in air firepower, and the Northwest Army that defended at any risk. Not only did they fail to conquer the key passes, but they suffered heavy losses under the repeated bombardment of the Northwest Army.
The Kwantung Army could not open up contact with the Japanese army in Shanxi. At this time, more than 50,000 Japanese troops in Shanxi were pursued by the Jin Sui Army and the 200,000 troops of the Eighteenth Group Army, and after the first few battles, they also caused great casualties to the two military forces, but the Japanese army in Shanxi was not only cut off from retreating, but at the same time, any supplies were also interrupted. Although it fought well in several battles, it consumed a lot of ammunition, and the Taiyuan Arsenal bombed the bombers of the Northwest Army in a mess, and later basically dismantled the machinery that could be used and transported it to Mukden. Having lost their supplies, the Japanese were soon depleted of ammunition in a fierce engagement.
There was no ammunition, the rifle in the hand also became a burning stick, the cannon was either destroyed under the bombardment of the Northwest Army, or because the shells were abandoned, more than 50,000 Japanese troops fought hard in Shanxi for nearly three months, and finally because the ammunition was exhausted, 31,000 were annihilated by the Jin Sui Army and the Northwest Army, and more than 20,000 people were forced to surrender under the help of the ammunition. So far, Shanxi has become the province of the Republic of China after Suiyuan, which has been recovered by the whole territory, and this time in the Great Encirclement War, it is also the first time that such a number of Japanese troops have been successfully forced to land. More than 20,000 Japanese troops were driven to the Baotou coal mining area to manually mine coal.
Due to the strength of the Northwest Army, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army had lost its independence and was divided into two routes with the 18th Group Army, the 18th Group Army went to Datong, passed through Tianzhen, and attacked Zhangjiakou with Li Du's 5th Group Army, and engaged the main force of the Kwantung Army. The Jin Sui Army from Zhengding Road and Wang Tiehan's 6th Army encircled Shijiazhuang, at this time plus the Jin Sui Army, the Northwest Army gathered in Hebei has reached an astonishing more than 700,000, Wang Tiehan brought over the tank cluster, as well as Zhou Dafu's armored mixed 1 brigade and the follow-up tanks and assault guns in place, at this time gathered in the Hebei theater of tanks, assault guns more than 1,300, the Northwest Army's aviation regiment has also moved to Shanxi, as well as some nearby airports in Hebei.
Wang Tiehan concentrated more than 690 170 105mm and 150mm heavy guns, 6 train guns, 75mm howitzers, mountain artillery, and field artillery, and invested more than 860 upper-caliber artillery pieces in addition to small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and mortars, which was also the first time in the history of Asian warfare. Together with more than 300 tanks and assault guns, Shijiazhuang was surrounded for more than two months, and more than 40,000 Japanese troops who were defending this important town in North China were annihilated. After Shanxi, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were wiped out in the second time.
After winning the victory in the Battle of Shijiazhuang, Wang Tiehan transferred a total of more than 100,000 people from the Jinsui Army and a section of the 6th Group Army, with more than 500 artillery pieces, tanks and armored vehicles, and killed Hengshui, Dezhou, and arrived in northern Lubei all the way. The main force of the 6th Group Army continued to dominate the north, and successively took Baoding and Cangzhou areas, and the forward was only more than 20 miles away from the Beijing-Tianjin District. With the 5th and 18th armies in the north, it formed a semi-encirclement of the Jingdangdang Jinjin area, and attacked from the north to the south. At this time, the connection between the North China Front and the Kwantung Army had been severed by the 6th Army of Wang Tiehan. It's just that because of Beijing's important position in Chinese history, the northwest does not want this ancient city to be beaten into ruins like Shijiazhuang. In view of the approaching winter. After several hard battles, Li Du's 5th Group Army withdrew to Datong and rested in the area of Guisui. The defense of Zhangjiakou, which had already been captured, was handed over to the 18th Group Army, and the Northern War was interrupted. (To be continued.) )