Chapter 376: Who to turn to for help?

"Boom Boom"

In order to support Zhang Lingfu's airborne regiment, Commander Su sent the strength of an entire aviation division to him today, of course, because of the continuous endurance of the fighters and the sustainability of the firepower, it was naturally impossible for hundreds of planes to pour out of the nest, but divided into three or four different batches to attack in turn.

But even so, it was also a painful torture for the Japanese army without the cover of fighters, and watching a large number of soldiers brave the artillery fire bravely attack fall in the sea of fire and gunsmoke, Lieutenant General Kazuo Miura, commander of the 66th Division of the Japanese Army, felt like a knife in his heart.

"Miura-kun, we can't go on like this, our attack is purely for the warriors of the empire to die!" Major General Uegen Heimoto couldn't stand it anymore, he rushed to Kazuo Miura's side regardless of his manners and roared loudly: "What about the imperial plane, why didn't the imperial plane come." Why do we want our soldiers to die in vain, and why is that? ”

Lieutenant General Kazuo Miura's slightly fat body slowly turned around, stared at Major General Uegen Heimoto and said word by word: "In order to protect the warriors of the hundreds of thousands of empires in Tongliao, in order to open up our lifeline, for Manchuria, and for the future of our empire." Do you understand when I say that? ”

"Puff"

Shangyuan Heiben sat on the ground, covered his eyes with his hands, and finally cried out regardless of the image after a trance for a while, just in the round of bombing just now, he had another team that was destroyed by the plane, and a whole brigade of more than 1,000 people attacked for half an hour and there were only more than 200 people left, so that the major general could no longer help but cry on the spot.

"Okay, Shangyuan-kun, you are a general of the empire, not a sentimental poet, and now your main task is to command the troops to continue the attack, not crying like a housewife, so please stand up like a warrior!" I don't know when, Kazuo Miura walked to the side of Uegen Hiramoto and said softly.

"Well, even if I die, I'm going to die with my soldiers." Kazumoto stood up and strode towards his headquarters, but Kazuo Miura, who was behind, had a smell of wind 'Xiao Xiao Xi Yi Shui Cold' no matter how he looked at it.

"Kill and give"

Under the bombardment overhead, more than 30,000 Japanese troops kept attacking Dalin, as if no matter how fierce the artillery fire was, they would not want to stop their pace

Seeing that the Japanese army was still desperately attacking under the fierce fire and the back and forth dive and sweeping of the planes, even Zhang Lingfu, a somewhat arrogant person, couldn't help but be a little clumsy. The repeated bombardment of dozens of planes lasted for nearly half an hour, and it was not until the bombs he carried were exhausted that he returned home with a triumphant twist of his butt

The news of the defeat of the 66th Division and the 78th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was quickly reported to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and Hideki Tojo and the officers in the staff were relatively speechless when they saw the casualty report from Kazuo Miura.

More than 30,000 troops went to attack the opponent, and more than 6,000 people were killed and wounded in just over 5,000 days in just over 5,000 people. Where is this attack, it is clearly sending people to death.

"Planes, damn planes!" I saw that the telegrams were all asking for the support of the aviation troops, but where did the Kwantung Army get so many planes?

The entire Kwantung Army also had only more than 500 fighters and two flying divisions, and the planes and personnel replenished by the country after the first flight division was disabled last time had not yet arrived, and the remaining second flight division had to defend against the expeditionary group army on the Vladivostok side, so it was really impossible to transfer many planes to support the Tongliao battlefield.

If the number of planes is too small, they can only deliver food to the people on the other side, and in the face of the snowflakes of telegram requesting air support, Hideki Tojo and the officers in the staff can only stare helplessly.

Seeing Hideki Tojo's worried appearance, a staff officer cautiously proposed, "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, if we transfer another division from Tongliao to besiege Dalin, otherwise in three to four days, our troops will be in a situation of running out of ammunition and food." ”

Hideki Tojo, who had been thinking for a while, nodded reluctantly, "Okay, then transfer another division from Tongliao Chōu to besiege Dalin, remember to march at night, otherwise they won't be able to reach Dalin once they are discovered by Zhina's planes." ”

"Hello!" The staff officer bowed and was about to walk away, but was stopped by Hideki Tojo, "In addition, send a telegram to Tokyo, asking them to hurry up and transport the additional fighters and personnel as quickly as possible, otherwise our front will be in danger of collapsing." ”

"Hello!"

Hideki Tojo let out a long sigh, sat down on the stool tiredly, picked up the strong tea on the table and took a big sip, the already cold strong tea and bitter taste seemed to indicate his mood.

Could it be that he really did something wrong to attack Daliao and Rehe, and is that Su Tong's strength really so huge? Hideki Tojo put down the teacup and pressed his hand on the sun for a while, feeling dizzy before thinking slowly.

"It seems that air power has become an indispensable force in modern warfare, and the empire used the superior strength of 500,000 troops to attack Tongliao, but now it has ended up with a loss of troops, isn't it because there is no air superiority? It seems that there is another way to find another way, and it is unrealistic to just wait for the local shipment to come. The question is where to mobilize aviation forces now? Does Central China send troops? No, although the local newspapers boasted about Matsui Ishine's godliness, saying that he was brave and good at fighting to conquer the capital of China, but the discerning people understood that it was because they took the initiative to give up and let them take advantage of it, and finally said so in order to take care of the face of the imperial army, their own flying third division was disabled, so they counted on it. ”

Hideki Tojo's gaze kept turning around the map until he finally settled on one place, which was the location of the North China Dispatch Command, Tianjin

The North China Dispatch Army Command is holding a high-level military meeting to arrange the work of this year, after all, the new year must have a new beginning.

At this time, Sugiyama Motomasa said with satisfaction, "Gentlemen, after half a year's efforts, our North China Dispatch Army has occupied most of Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and many other places, which can be described as brilliant results, and the government of China has completely shrunk in the corner of Chongqing, so to speak, the Chiang regime at this time has been reduced to a local government!" ”

"Bang la la" The generals below applauded their face-saving efforts.

Okamura Ninji also clapped lightly in his hands, with a hypocritical smile on his face, how happy he was at first glance. Only the chief of staff Hashimoto Ryutaro, who was sitting behind him, knew that His Excellency, the arrogant division commander, had considerable disdain for the commander on the stage.

"Report!" Suddenly, a junior officer stood upright at the entrance of Mén.

"Yes!" Sugiyama Moto, who was talking happily, turned his head and saw that it was an official of the Communications Division, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy for a while, and said, "What the hell is going on, I don't know if we are in a meeting now?" How can you casually interrupt our meeting! ”

"Hello!" The young man bowed, "I'm really sorry to disturb Your Excellency." But this was an urgent telegram from the Kwantung Army Command, and he did not dare to delay it, so he rushed to it immediately. After saying that, the young man stepped forward and respectfully sent a telegram to Sugiyama Moto's hand.

"The Kwantung Army? What do they have to send an urgent telegram? Sugiyama Yuan curiously opened the telegram and said to the young man with an impatient face: "Ridiculous, why should they have to transfer our forces to fill your deficit when they are not in a good war, it's really ridiculous. ”

"You go and tell Tojo-kun, let's just say that we are also very nervous here, and there is really no way to support them, please solve this little difficulty on their own."

"This" the young man couldn't help but hesitate.

"Yaga, didn't you hear? Don't go yet! Seeing Shaozuo's hesitant appearance, Sugiyama Yuan couldn't help but be furious, and immediately scolded him.

"Hello!" The young man was about to walk out slowly.

But I heard a voice next to me shouting, "Please wait, please tell us what happened!" ”

Sugiyama Yuan saw that it was Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, the commander of the Second Division, and Sugiyama Yuan took a breath before saying: "It turned out to be Okamura-kun, this is a telegram for help sent by Tojo-kun, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he asked us to send a flying division to Tongliao to help them fight for air supremacy with the Seventh Theater of Operations in China, and also said that the people of China are attacking fiercely, and they are almost unable to resist now." Hmph, alarmist! ”

In the final analysis, Sugiyama Moto, who did not directly fight with the Seventh War Zone, did not believe in the authenticity of this telegram too much, and if the Kwantung Army fought one or two defeats, he believed this, after all, there was no undefeated general in this world. But as Hideki Tojo said in his telegram, the war had reached its most dangerous moment, and the urgent need for air power was urgent, and he did not believe it.

What kind of unit is the Kwantung Army, it is the most powerful front army level unit in the entire Japanese army. During this time, he knew that the Kwantung Army had mobilized 500,000 troops to launch an attack on the Seventh War Zone, but he didn't expect that it would be urgent in less than half a month, and in Sugiyama Moto's opinion, it was simply a joke.

It's okay for you Tojo to bully Umezu Mijiro in Manchuria, do you still want to come to North China to bully me Sugiyama Moto? You dream about it