Chapter 514: Bloody Battle in Jinzhou (II)

Tianjin Xiǎo Station, Siye Front Command.

In the office, Yue Weihan was standing in front of the window admiring the snow outside the window, but Deng Gong sat down on Yue Weihan's large board chair, and immediately opened the chōu drawer, rummaging through it and asking, "Zhongshu, what about the box of Cuban cigars that Stilwell brought back from the United States last time?" Where did you go to hide? ”

"Where?" Yue Weihan said, "Didn't you all go away?" ”

"No, there are at least two more." Deng Gong's eyes lit up, "Take it out quickly." ”

Yue Weihan had no choice but to dig out an inconspicuous broken paper box from the corner of the filing cabinet, and from the inside mō out of a jīng iron box, open the box, there was a cigar inside, and said to Deng Gong: "That's it." ”

"That's it? Then I'll have to save some chōu. As he spoke, Deng Gong put the cigar in his pocket, took out a pack of Daqian mén cigarettes from the other pocket, and then raised it to Yue Weihan and asked, "Do you want to have a relieving fatigue too?" ”

"Forget it." Yue Weihan waved his hand, he had always been a dislike of chōu cigarettes, and only occasionally chōu chōu when he encountered something difficult to break.

When Deng Chengcheng lit a cigarette, the office room was pushed away, and the solemn Zuo Zong had already hurriedly walked in, and immediately saluted Yue Weihan and Deng Gong: "General seat, political commissar, the 8th Group Army called, along the Jingfeng Railway, the Shanfeng Highway and the three infantry divisions along the coastline to the north, all of which were attacked by Japanese militants, and these Japanese militants were mixed with the refugees from the northeast, it was difficult to distinguish, and the troops had to stop. ”

"The troops stopped?" Deng Gong didn't care about the chōu smoke at the moment, and hurriedly walked to the map hanging on the wall.

"And that's to be expected." Yue Weihan just nodded, and said with a calm expression, "Japan's resettlement project to the four eastern provinces has been going on for a full twelve years, and in the past twelve years, at least more than two million Japanese have moved to the northeast, which is enough to cause big trouble for our counteroffensive plan. ”

"Hey, this is really a thirty-year feng shui cycle." Deng Gong scratched his head and said with a wry smile, "Back then, we used guerrilla warfare against the Japanese army in North China, and now it is the turn of the Japanese to use guerrilla warfare against us." ”

"The political commissar doesn't know that the Japanese are much crazier than us Chinese." Mr. Zuo smiled bitterly, "The front line returns, the Japanese are not just a simple attack, let alone run away with a shot, but let their old people, NV people and children strapped to bomb yào, and hold grenades in their hands to blow up our infantry fighting vehicles and troop carriers, which is a complete suicide attack!" ”

"Really?" Deng Gong said awe-inspiringly, "This Japanese nation is really a crazy nation, and it is also a terrible nation. ”

"In Jinzhou, I'm afraid there will be a bad battle!" Yue Weihan looked at the snowy scene outside the window and said quietly, "The suicide attacks of Japanese civilians have effectively delayed the northward pace of the 8th Army, which has bought time for Okamura Ningji, and once the heavy army group of the Kwantung Army crushes over from the east and west, the situation of the 8th Army will be worrying." ”

"yes." Mr. Zuo nodded, and said worriedly, "Although the armed helicopter is infinitely powerful, after all, we have only formed an army aviation division, and we can't effectively suppress the tank sea of the Kwantung Army at all. ”

As soon as the words fell, a staff officer of the major general hurriedly entered, and said uprightly: "General seat, Commander Li of the 8th Group Army is in an emergency!" ”

Mr. Zuo hurriedly stepped forward to take the telegram, and Deng Gong, who was standing in front of the map, frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Old Zuo, could it be that something happened to the Jinzhou front?" ”

"Nope." Mr. Zuo shook his head, and then said to Yue Weihan, "General seat, Li Yu put forward an extremely bold battle plan in the telegram, suggesting that the airborne division directly land in Manchuria and cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway!" At the same time, bombers were dispatched to forcibly bomb the railways on the east and west sides of Manchuria to prevent the rapid reinforcement of the Japanese and Russian troops along the railway line! ”

"Well, airborne in Manchuria?" Yue Weihan Huo Ran turned around and immediately strode to the map.

Deng Gong picked up a ruler and measured the map, and said: "It is less than 1,000 kilometers from Zhangjiakou Airport to Manchuria, and it is completely within the range of DC-3 transport planes and B-17 strategic bombers, but if the Japanese army also built a large number of radar stations on the ancient plateau of Méng, then this long-distance large-scale airborne operation is likely to ......."

Deng Gong's words stopped abruptly, but Yue Weihan and Zuo Zong had already understood.

If the Japanese army had also built a large number of radar stations in the eastern part of the ancient plateau of Méng, then this airborne operation and bombing operation would have been very dangerous, because the range of the Mustang fighters was limited, and it was impossible to escort the entire journey to the vicinity of Manchuria, and once the transport planes and bombers were not escorted by the fighters, they would have been easily strangled by the Japanese air force.

General Zuo immediately said another possibility: "However, if everything goes well and the Airborne Division occupies Manchuria, it will be able to cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway, a strategic line that is vital to the life and death of the Kwantung Army, and it will be impossible for a large amount of war materials transported from the industrial base in the Far East to the south and from Europe to the hands of the Kwantung Army." ”

"Especially the oil!" Yue Weihan patted the map heavily and said in a deep voice, "Once the supply of fuel is insufficient, the more than 3,000 tanks of the Kwantung Army will become decorations, and the more than 5,000 heavy artillery pieces will all become scrap copper and rotten iron!" And their mechanized infantry divisions will also be beaten back to their original form and turned into primitive infantry divisions that can only march on the basis of double tuǐ! ”

Mr. Zuo and Deng Gong's eyes lit up suddenly, this is indeed the fate of Guan Gongjun!

At the beginning of the war of aggression against China, they relied on the supply of the United States, Britain and other countries, and later occupied Southeast Asia, and their days were comfortable for a while, but the good times did not last long, and with the destruction of the combined fleet, the shipping lanes in Southeast Asia were soon cut off by the allied navies.

The Kwantung Army then occupied the Far East of the former Soviet Union and acquired several Xiǎo oil fields near Sakhalin.

However, with the growth of the Kwantung Army's armored clusters and the transformation of hundreds of infantry divisions into mechanized infantry divisions in the true sense, the demand for refined oil has become greater and larger, and it is no longer enough to rely on a few Xiǎo oil fields in the Far East.

At present, the strength of the Kwantung Army's air force is still there, and the cost of dispatching bomber groups to forcibly bomb strategic targets such as iron and steel plants, arsenals, oil refineries, and power plants in the northeast is not large; after all, China is no better than the United States, and the foundation of the air force is still too thin, and the only dozens of strategic bombers that there are really cannot afford to lose.

Therefore, cutting off the supply of crude oil to the Japanese refinery has become the first choice!

Once the airborne landing in Manchuria is successful, whether it is the Kulen crude oil transported to the east or the Far East crude oil to the south, it will be impossible to enter the territory of the Northeast again, because the current Siberian Railway, only the port of Manchuria is connected to the Northeast, once this port is cut off, it is impossible to open up another crude oil channel in this winter!

"Order, the 1st Aviation Division immediately sent reconnaissance aircraft to reconnoiter Manchuria!" Yue Weihan made a quick decision.

Deng Gong thought for a while, and added: "Then order all aviation divisions to increase the number of take-off sorties as much as possible, and consume the fuel of the Kwantung Army Aviation as much as possible, and at the same time order the task force lurking in the northeast to immediately find the oil refinery in the northeast and blow it up as much as possible, at least a few refined oil depots!" ”

With the issuance of one order after another, the context of Siye's tactical thinking immediately became clear.

In the intricate fog of war, Mr. Li captured the weakness of the Kwantung Army with his keen intuition of fighters!

The Kwantung Army seems to be strong, but in fact it is not without weakness, and the shell of the South Manchurian turtle operated by Okamura Ninji seems to be indestructible, but in fact it also has a fatal weakness, and this weakness is known as the blood of industry - crude oil! The underground foundation of Northeast China is rich in crude oil, but it is a pity that there is no geological expert like Mr. Li Siguang in Japan!

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After a few xiǎo hours, the aerial reconnaissance of Manchuria ended.

The results were exciting, the two reconnaissance planes encountered by the Air 1 took off from Zhangjiakou Airport and were not intercepted by any Japanese fighters until Manchuria, which can only show that the Japanese army did not build a radar station on the ancient plateau of Méng! Yue Weihan immediately ordered the airborne division and special operations division to enter the first level of combat readiness!

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In the evening of the same day, the airborne division and the special operations division flew to Zhangjiakou Airport to secretly assemble.

At 7 a.m. the next day, more than 1,000 Mustang fighters of eight air divisions took off from Beiping, Qingdao, Baoding, and Jinan airports at the same time, and 200 of them carried heavy aerial bombs and formed six Hún formations, which flew to Jinzhou, Yingkou, Dalian, and Mukden to carry out air raids.

The five major flying groups of the Kwantung Army Air Force immediately poured out of their nests and went to intercept them.

When the Chinese and Japanese air forces were fighting in the airspace over Liaodong Bay, more than 300 DC-3 transport planes loaded with more than 4,000 officers and men of the airborne division and the special warfare division and more than 300 tons of combat materials took off from Zhangjiakou Airport one after another.

Manchuria is located in the rear, and the Japanese army has only one garrison wing here!

Under the fierce attack of the airborne division, the Japanese garrison wing collapsed after only holding out for four xiǎo, and Manchuria was officially declared liberated, and at the same time, the special operations division also led the B-17 strategic bomber group that took off afterwards to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the railway facilities at the east and west ends of Manchuria, and more than a dozen bridge facilities were destroyed, and it was impossible to repair them in a short time.