February 14, 1938, this is a typical Western festival, in this era few Chinese know what special ghost this is? Valentine's Day is really a luxury for the Chinese [***] people who are in the midst of war and the land has been lost, Zhang Xuewu naturally will not spend any Valentine's Day, but there are many foreign engineers and technicians in its Baotou Industrial Base, as well as a large number of Jewish technicians, Chinese but the Ghost Guy's Day, this is a sentence that the people of Rehe often hang on their lips, because there are no flowers at all in this season, so the roses carved with radishes have become a hot commodity for a while.

The air force units of the 10 th Theater have successively carried out several large-scale and fierce attacks on the flight divisions of the Kwantung Army, and judging from the overall quality and air combat experience of the pilots on both sides, as well as the surnames of the fighters, none of the pilots of the Army Air Force are any stronger than the air force units of the 10 th Theater, so the flight team of the Kwantung Army has been unlucky.

At the Chengde Field Airfield, Zhang Xuewu deliberately practiced for the air force warriors who attacked today, and Zhang Guangyu's strategic bomber formation all attacked this time, and even the escorting BF-109K multi-role fighters were hung with two 200-pound aerial bombs, which could be used in case of emergency, and the use of destroyers, that is, fighters, as bombers, was undoubtedly a resource intention, or an extremely irresponsible manifestation.

However, Zhang Xuewu must carry out the most violent blow as soon as possible against the 569 and 731 units of the Yue Army, which intend to use virus weapons.

Gao Zhihang, as the director of the Air Force of the 10th Theater of Operations, originally did not go into battle, but for this important operation, he also flew the Saker fighter into the air and commanded the entire operation in the air; 10 hours ago, more than 30 Junker transport planes had already airdropped the first detachment of the Falcon Special Operations Force in the quarantine area near Harbin, and not only did 20 commandos land safely, but also the "Foxhound" ultra-light armored assault vehicle just trial-produced by the Baotou Industrial Zone Armored Vehicle Research Institute also carried out an airdrop test.

Originally, it was a Junkers rear-cabin transport aircraft that was modified for the convenience of airdropping materials and light artillery for special forces and mountain troops that were being formed. Two to three people can fight, the total combat weight is less than 1.8 tons, a distance of 100 meters can defend against the fire of the army's Type 92 heavy machine guns, equipped with a 20 mm anti-tank rifle and two MG34 general purpose machine guns, a 37 mm anti-tank turret, a 120 mm heavy mortar launch tower, and can be attached to the armor plate.

"Foxhound" ultra-light armored assault vehicle for the tracked steel armor welded structure of the body, in the case of no external armor, the hull armor is weak can only be anti-rifle bullets, the driver is located in the front right of the car, the power plant in the front of the hull, because it is equipped with the latest planetary diesel engine, so that the car has a good land maneuver surname, the maximum highway speed can reach 70 kilometers per hour, the maximum travel of 300 kilometers, can be unimpeded on the soft ground, with the help of floating equipment can also overcome water obstacles.

It can be said that the advent of such a small thing is really beyond Zhang Xuewu's expectations, this thing was originally designed for special forces to carry out airborne operations, a modified Juncker transport aircraft can carry two "Foxhound" ultra-light armored assault vehicles, the successful airdrop is mainly thanks to himself, because in order to implement secrecy for Unit 731, he designated 50 kilometers around it as a military restricted area, and directly shot Chinese who strayed in, or was used as a material for the experiment of Unit 731.

In order to prevent the bombing of Unit 731's very obvious base camp, Ueda Kenkichi, commander of the Kwantung Army, ordered Shiro Ishii to lower the national flag, dismantle the barbed wire fence and guard tower, and transported more than 100 cattle and thousands of sheep, disguising the garrison of Unit 731 as a farm.

Because, Qiqihar's 569 unit was frantically bombed by the air force unit of the 10th theater the day before, in my opinion, the reason is very simple, it is the 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun of the air defense brigade attached to the 569 unit that exposed the target, causing the Chinese bombers to swarm in, the commander of the 569 unit, Kazuo Morita and 297 researchers and engineers, all of them were martyred.

After investigation, I believe that it was the reading anti-aircraft artillery brigade attached to Unit 569 that fired first and injured a bomber in [***], so it led to the other party's retaliation surname bombing, and as a result, the 569 unit whose location was extremely secret was mistaken, and the high temperature of the special incendiary bomb burned down part of the reinforced concrete and the structure's air-raid shelter. The tragic situation made him exclaim, so Ueda Kenkichi temporarily issued an order, since the flying division of the Kwantung Army was defeated by the air force of the 10th theater, then it could only rely on camouflage.

For Unit 569 to die before he left the division, Ueda Kenkichi was also extremely depressed, fortunately, [***] used a large number of special incendiary bombs, which directly gave Unit 569 a big disinfection to the research, which did not lead to the spread of the virus, but also made Ueda Kenkichi a false alarm, after Unit 569 was completely destroyed, Unit 731 thought about it even more important, Unit 731 was related to the implementation of the "Heavenly Punishment" operational secret order issued by His Majesty the Emperor, and there was no room for accidents at this critical juncture.

What made Ueda Kenkichi feel a little angry was that after Okamura Ninji's troops advanced to a position less than thirty kilometers from Chaoyang, they began to dig fortifications and move to defense? There is no intent to quickly advance to a full-scale attack? What exactly does Okamura want to do?

Kenkichi Ueda had already sent three urgent telegrams to Okamura Ninji, and his tone had changed from urging him to move forward to taking full responsibility and engaging in military justice if he lost the fighter, but Okamura Ninji was unmoved?

In fact, in a settlement numbered No. 11 thirty kilometers from Chaoyang Fortress, Okamura Ninji stood in the hot residential activity room, looking at the neatly arranged coal blocks in the corner, all the living utensils, and the propaganda posters on the wall to completely eliminate the invaders, especially a pajama and a note hanging on the large blackboard, which aroused Okamura Ninji's interest, because the Chinese on the note said "We will be back!" ”

Okamura Ninji Judging from his experience in previous operations, in the Winter Festival operation, such a large settlement would have been burned by Zhang Xuewu's troops themselves long ago, so as not to be used by the enemy, but this time the 10th Theater did not do this, the residents retreated very organized, all the livestock were carried, and the grain that the Chinese people valued most was basically left at home, which means that there was no shortage of food in the actual control areas of the 10th Theater such as Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, and Zhang Xuewu was very confident in recovering the lost territory. Therefore, Okamura Ninji also issued an order, that is, it is not allowed to destroy people's houses at will, and it is not allowed to move the utensils and food in residents' homes.

Okamura Ninji actually didn't want to rush forward in the direction of the rising sun, but a few days ago he was attacked too hard by air, and at most he was attacked by 27 air raids a day, almost once in less than an hour, and Okamura Ninji also understood that the problems faced by the Imperial Army were not that the generals were not brave enough, nor that the weapons were too different, but the implementation of the overall strategy and tactics, the old and rigid strategic deployment and the rigid and abnormal tactical command, It can be said that Okamura Ningji analyzed all the battles that Zhang Xuewu participated in and commanded, and he felt a kind of fear for Zhang Xuewu's thinking and tactics of jumping surnames?

Aerial bombardment can effectively support the ground operations of the army, but relying on high-intensity air strikes alone can make it difficult for their huge troops to move an inch, and huge losses, this is Okamura Ningji never dared to think before, armored combat vehicles cluster assault, rapid outflanking and division of the enemy's army, with fierce artillery fire combined with ground and air firepower to annihilate, this is a military paper of Okamura Ningji a few years ago, it is a pity that Okamura Ningji's ideas have all been verified in the Imperial Army.

As for the order of the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, Okamura Ninji did not take it seriously at all, because Okamura Ninji's judgment of the [***] The full combat effectiveness of the two armored divisions in the 10th theater has not been fully reflected, and in the narrow triangle from Chaoyang to Lingyuan, there are as many as nine divisions of the empire, as well as eleven divisions including the two armored divisions, the garrison division, and the integrated division of the Youth Army in the 10th theater, so many troops are crowded in the narrow triangle, In the ice and snow, a tragic and abnormal battle was launched, and now these seven divisions and four reading mixed brigades are squeezing in? This is clearly not a wise choice!

Moreover, Okamura Ninji believed that the Central [***] Division was deliberately preserving its strength, and its armored division was unwilling to easily attack the Second Front Army Isoya Ryosuke Division, which was defended by the terrain, in consideration of losses, and once the emperor's [***] all-out attack failed and turned into retreat, then the fangs and sharp teeth of the 10th Theater Armored Division would be truly released.

So Okamura Ninji decided that instead of wading into this troubled water, it would be much more practical to form a formation at this moment to protect himself, Ueda Kenkichi is like a red-eyed gambler who has lost the last chip, wouldn't he die without a corpse if he obeyed his orders? A guy who even conceals the burial of his own subordinates, what credibility is there to talk about?

In the rumbling night sky, the roar of the motors of bombers and night multirole fighters resounded in the night sky!

(To be continued)