Ueda Kenkichi said thoughtfully: "Seven divisions with heavy artillery units against the six divisions in the Tenth Theater of Operations? I believe in the ability of Ritsu and Ryosuke Isotani, and I have my own arrangements for the troops of Okamura Ninji's Ninth Army, so I don't need to say much about this. ”

As the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Yoshichi Kurosi was supposed to be responsible for formulating the strategy of the Kwantung Army when Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo was no longer there, and in the formulation of strategy and tactics, Major General Yoshiichi Kurosi could even be said to have far more power to speak than Kenkichi Ueda.

However, as a general, Ueda Kenkichi used his position and rank to force the somewhat weak Kuros Kichiichi with his surname, and Kurosi Kichichi naturally had nothing to say, plus it was Tojo Hideki and Ueda Kenkichi arguing, when Kuros Kichichi, who was used to throwing off his hands and shopkeepers, wanted to regain the power of the staff, Ueda Kenkichi naturally did not allow it, because this secret battle plan in Ueda Kenkichi was completely successful before it was completely successful, and only he knew about it, because the more people who knew, the more people would share the credit, This is Ueda's last chance to storm the marshal.

It can be said that this time with the main force of the [***] 10th theater of operations in the offensive of the Kwantung Army, the strategic surname of the Armageddon, Ueda Kenkichi himself has reached the point of gratitude, for the emperor His Majesty who is far away in Honshu, Ueda Kenkichi has to face the east every morning and evening, but obviously Ueda Kenkichi's worship has no effect? One is that Ueda Kenkichi is insincere, and the second possibility is that the emperor is not Amaterasu's illegitimate son at all? I don't have any divine power at all, and I can't bless the emperor who has done all the things that lack virtue and wants to give birth to a son with an asshole.

Ueda Kenkichi hesitated for a long time and said to Kurosaki: "Order the 20th and 25th Heavy Bomb Brigades stationed in North Korea to carry out air strikes on Dingyuan Camp and Baotou respectively in the early hours of tomorrow morning!" The Kwantung Army, the Korean Army, the Chinese Dispatch Army, the North China Front, and the Air Force fully cooperated in containing it. ”

Regarding the order given by Ueda Kenkichi, Kuroseichi had a feeling of suffocation, because Ueda Kenkichi's approach seemed to be a little too extreme, and the 20th and 25th Heavy Bomb Brigades stationed in North Korea were the treasures of the army aviation!

Resources have always been scarce, for more than forty percent of the aero engines purchased from the United States through US loans, the power of its domestic aero engines is not enough to be installed on large bombers, so the so-called heavy bombers made in China seem to be a little congenitally insufficient, this kind of taste is probably the most profound experience of the pilots of the aviation units of the army, after all, the kind of rotten things that are bulky to a certain extent, and the longitudinal rod is so heavy that even if no one is there, the enemy is likely to kill them. Therefore, the pilots of the bombing unit of the Army Air Force are particularly attentive to checking their parachutes every time they take to the air.

In May 1937, the army ordered 72 BR-20 heavy bombers from Italy for long-range bombing of the Chinese battlefield, replacing the Type 96 medium bomber and the Type 96 land-based medium-range bomber, which was a long-range twin-engine attack aircraft used by the Navy and had a large combat radius. During the Battle of Songhu, because the Yue army was temporarily unable to control the mainland airfield, the Type 96 bombers of the two air forces stationed in Taiwan, Luya and Kisarazu, took off from Taipei and carried out transoceanic bombing of Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places in Chinese mainland.

Yoshiichi Kurosaki, who served as chief of staff at the Army Aviation Headquarters, is far clearer about the current situation of the Army Aviation than Kenkichi Ueda, and the Army Aviation is not without heavy bombers, the most typical of which is the 93 heavy bomber, which has a much more bomb load than the 96 bomber, but unfortunately the combat radius is only 400 kilometers, which belongs to the type of heavy body and short legs. Moreover, this kind of fixed landing gear aircraft has a very poor surname, a very high failure rate, and a great reliance on ground service, so it has been nicknamed "straight-line flight forced landing exercise machine", and the Type 96 medium bomber and Type 97 heavy bomber in general, can only do surface bombing, if the Type 96 medium bomber, Type 93 heavy bomber and Type 97 heavy bomber are used for dive bombing, then the plane may land before the bomb! Moreover, all three types of bombers are strategic bombers, not tactical bombers.

In fact, Yoshiichi Hemori remembered that the army air force also had a large strategic bomber, called the Type 95 large attack aircraft. This kind of aircraft has a long range, can be called a good hand of strategic bombing, it has repeatedly dispatched this kind of aircraft from Jeju Island in North Korea to carry out air strikes on Shanghai, unfortunately, encountered the attack plane's nemesis BF-109F fighters, and a whole group of Type 95 long-distance attack planes were all shot down, resulting in the domestic battlefield no longer in the Chinese battlefield with this type of attack aircraft.

He believes that this so-called air attack plan is more appropriate than a suicide plan, saying that all the bombers equipped by the army must be used under the condition of almost absolute air supremacy, and no bomber is suitable for performing fast, low-altitude penetration missions, so he also urgently needs BF-109F fighters and Stuka dive bombers to compete with the Flying Tigers of Zhang Xuewu's department for air supremacy. On the other hand, the Stuka dive bomber was particularly effective in attacking armored targets.

In particular, Rehe has established good relations with the Chinese Nationalist Axe and the Luftwaffe, and the large orders in Rehe have given the Luftwaffe money to replace a large number of new fighters, while he himself, who is so poor that he is about to lose his pants, has inherited the "wisdom and wisdom" of his ancestors when dealing with the Germans!

Because, the military was originally only going to order a prototype, which was the habitual practice of the man himself, who bought it, dismantled it, studied it, and then imitated it, which the Germans had already experienced, and the Type 93 heavy bomber was an imitation of the German Junkers K-37. Such a petty spirit made the old-fashioned Germans angry, and the business negotiator of the German company Heinkel once said to the representative: "When can we get more than one order from you?" ”

And he himself also took out their housekeeping skills, and bowed violently, bowing back then, this is the current deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Kurosi Yoshiichi, who climbed to the position of major general by plagiarizing and engaging in copycats, and it is indeed not easy for Kurosi Yoshiichi.

However, Yoshiichi Kurosi still failed to stop Kenkichi Ueda's bombing plan, because he, the deputy chief of staff, did not make an exception like Hideki Tojo who threatened each other with disembowelment at every turn, and Kenkichi Ueda's battle plan was approved by the Army Aviation Department, in fact, everyone understood very well that the battle plan drawn up by the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, and the 20th and 25th Heavy Bomb Brigades stationed in Korea were still subordinate to the Kwantung Army's operational sequence, and reporting to the Army Aviation Department was just a formality. On the surface, it is to give the Army Aviation Department a face, but in fact, if there is a mistake in the battle plan, there will be a few more people who will carry the black pot, after all, this battle plan is agreed by everyone, if not, why didn't you say it earlier?

For Ueda Kenkichi relying on his position and rank to play hooligan tricks, the Army Aviation Department is also very helpless, and there are many people who privately stick notes, tie straw men, and hit the soles of shoes.

At 3 a.m. on 1 February 1938, the living quarters in the southern area of the Baotou Industrial Zone were intensively bombed by the 20th and 25th Heavy Bomb Brigades of the Chinese Army stationed in Korea.

After the bombing was over, the cunning group of military planes did not return directly to the plane, but turned around and flew directly from Mongolia to the secret airfield of the Kwantung Army Flying Division in Heilongjiang.

Baotou Industrial Zone was attacked by the Japanese army? Zhang Xuewu felt that he was either asleep, or the adjutant he called up was asleep? Zhang Xuewu personally led the construction of the air defense network of the entire 10 th theater, and because the radar was still being researched, Zhang Xuewu used the most old-fashioned and stupid method, that is, to build air defense posts everywhere, and as soon as he heard or saw the attack of the planes, he immediately reported the enemy situation to the air defense headquarters by telegraph or wired telephone, and then the air force units took off to effectively intercept the invading fighters.

Therefore, Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan have long become the flight forbidden areas of the army aviation, so that in the subsequent struggle for air supremacy, the entire Beiping to Jinzhou and Fengtian have been included in the attack range of the 10th theater air force, and in the face of the BF-109K and Saker fighters, which have advanced the technology of almost an era and are overwhelmed, the army aviation can only retreat.

It is under such conditions that pride and arrogance will inevitably breed, and the most crucial thing is that the 20 th and 25 th Heavy Bomb Brigades that took off from the DPRK came from the Soviet border side, and the military aircraft group penetrated more than 100 kilometers deep into the Soviet border, so it naturally avoided Zhang Xuewu's air defense network, and the instruction for the air raid on Baotou and the army air force unit was to drop bombs on a predetermined area, and it was as simple as that.

It can be said that this is a surprise attack that is politically greater than military, breaking the myth of Baotou's absolute air force defense circle!

(To be continued)